Tall and lithe are the Elven slaves, weak in all but reflexes and pride. They live to near impossible ages that vastly out span mortals by ten fold. Most elves are pale skinned things with long ears and sharp crow like faces. Their bodies meant for swift travel through heavy forest and living in the trees. Many new Elven generation are stronger, thicker, and breed for slavery as labor and servants. A fair many Elves have golden or forest black hair that shines like silk, though many a Lady have their servants shaved for reasons of vanity and envy.

The Elves average about five and a half to six feet tall but only weigh a hundred and ten to a hundred and twenty pounds, on average. Their fingers are long and their knees sharp. Elves have a gestation period of two years and generally only produce one or two children every ten years. Many a man is jealous of the Elven sight, its keen ability to detect minute details a prized possession among slave traders.

Culture

Elves of this Era are two fold:

The stealthy rebels who fight against the slavery of their fellow Elven Kind from the forest, attacking and raiding the slave caravans from the Main land. The culture of their noble past has left them and they have adopted many of Humans’ traditions. The majority of the rebel Elven militia are freed Elves, lead by a mysterious Elven warrior who is reported to be able to split a man in two with his bow. Called only “Sly King” by the rebels no one knows his origins or why he had the will to start the rebellion.

The other are called Noble Elves, for they are Elven families from the White Sail Era who escaped capture and enslavement. They continue to tell the stories and past traditions of the White Sail Era and seem to believe that the “Sly King” is a descendant of past warriors of the sky. The ever powerful Sorcerers in the Rebel army are all Noble Elves.

These combine cultures have breed something new into the world that many Humans do not understand and many more fear.

Three Roots

The Three Roots, as the Noble Elves call them, are a series of traditions and beliefs that hold the race together and are continually taught to the new and freed generation:

• Harm no tree that you can not replace two fold.
• Murder no creature of nature or creature.
• Above all respect the Forest King and his Court of Nobles.

Four Leaves

Wanting to have an sub-culture of their own the freed Elves devised their own traditions that the Noble Elves have accepted into the fold, they are called the Four Leaves:

• Take no man or creature into service without their consent.
• Devise no device meant for torture or cruelty beyond war.
• Any man or creature collared to another shall be set free.
• All Avengardi shall be treated with the respect deserving of the souls inside.

The Avengardi are weapons, spear or bow, that they believe have been blessed by the Grand Nobles of the Skies, Elven Court Nobles from the Nation before Man who sailed the skies for their King.

History

No historian, scripture, or tale tells of where the first Elves came from. The earliest stories do tell us that they arrived on boats long and swift. Man thought them Gods from above, worshiped them even, and the Elves in return taught man to forge himself iron and steel, build huts and how to use herbs to heal. It was a synergy that ended far too soon for both races. From the hills of the tribes rose a fierce warlord who used this steel for swords and iron for armor. He gathered the tribes of Man and he brought them a new tool: Rage and anger. He asked them: “Why do they not share all their riches with us?!” and the Men could not answer. They grew jealous, greedy, and envied the Elves.

Posted on September 18 2010