Elves

## History/Culture

The elves were once a proud and virtuous race which were often revered by the members of the other races - who upon the old continent would often come to their great city Fëanor to learn from their wise druids and to trade due to the nation's immense market in agriculture.
With the abyss’ conquering of Fëanor, what elves remained fled alongside the other race’s survivors and upon reaching the new continent, have since become dispersed, some elves taking to the thick forest where they were closest with their goddess - Veruna, some even taking to the deserts and punishing tundras. Unlike the other races, the elves had once received a blessing from their goddess, one which would make the elves’ descendents highly adaptable to the environment they were born into, most traditional elves believe these ‘roots’ were based off the manifestation of their homeland’s respective earth spirits, which they believe explains the Snow, or tundra elves having blue, light gray or sometimes purple hues eyes and pure white hair, colors which represent Yisci, the essence of winter to the elves of Faenor.

Long ago when giants warred with dragons and magic had no bounds, amongst the tall fair skinned, partially immortal elves known as Fea were the only of their kind. Split amongst three tribes - Ixlik, Vyshaan, and Eldar, the three nearly identical tribes fought endlessly, and as depicted through old dwarven tablets, large scale battles were often held between the clans using one of the first recorded forms of magic known amongst scholars as ‘Primal Magic’.
Sometime after the giants became only tales told by old dwarven families who had fought alongside the creatures which are now often revered by dwarves of the old faith(?), the elves had begun to unify, most of the newer tribes having long since outpopulated the original families, this led to the eventual detoritation of the Vyshaan tribe, who had split into dozen of smaller tribes, who had absorbed the sun-blonde locks of their father-tribe.

Those of Ixlik, who held the influence among the elves for their discovery of dragon sorcery, a long since lost art that was founded by Ixlik’s elder, a direct descendant of the original Ixlik founder, named appropriately Ixli. Unbeknownst to the elves at the time - Ixli had alongside her tribe’s strongest warriors had slaughtered hundreds of the dwindling and baron dragons, who at that point were but ancient relics - shells of what they once were, dwelling in the tall mountains once belonging to the giants.
When these dragons were slaughtered, Ixli somehow absorbed their powers, and through this discovered the great sorcery.
Hoarding it amongst her tribe’s most accomplished, the Ixlik family were quickly revered as gods, many of the elves rising idols of gold and marble where they would praise the mortals.

Though - the surviving members of Eldar saw through this, they had been forcibly made into consorts, being used for their tribe’s secrets in agriculture development and a particularly useful skill at the time - archery.
The father of the Eldar tribe fled in the shroud of night, finding themselves deep in the guts of the natural world, where they would stay according to the elven emerald tablets for some two centuries, never once found by the other tribes.

In their absence Ixli had become the first elven princess, creating the Dynasty of FeaIxl, where they often made diplomatic trades, gaining wealth and infamy with undisclosed knowledge of dragon sorcery which particularly interested the humans nobles of the era, who from this knowledge gained the power, and particularly long lives they desired - or so they were promised.

While the common elves praised the idols of the living Princess and her children, those of the Eldar tribe had discovered something within the forest - and for some time had been learning from it.

The true mother of the Fea as proclaimed by many elves, Veruna Nature’s essence, had spoken to the Eldar tribe upon discovering their presence within her forests, she offered them guidance, forgiveness for their cousins' doings - showing that they no longer have to live alongside their tyranny. And soon..many of their kin back home would need this wisdom.
As written in the emerald tablets of the Eldar Fea - “The gods were angry, the mother promised her love, but she could not undo what was to be done. In a realm incomprehensible to the minds of no mortal, the dragon god of magic wallows in unrest, seeing not only the already long living elves giving themselves longer lives, but to those of the third child - the humans who had never earned his attention using this magic to play with the reality the gods had painted upon the material plane, and so the shift came - overnight human lords aged from youthful nobles to withered skeletons, structures suspended in the skies through the unhinged power of dragon sorcery fell to earth, and magic was seemingly ripped from all. It will be their greatest grandchildren who will discover how to use this new system, and even they will never fully harness its power as they’ve proven only to abuse such.

Those of the mother will for now protect her forest with her gifts, and soon we shall bring the way of the mother to her children.”