Generations/Lore/Races/Elves

Biology

Genders

Elves can be Male, Female, or Futanari

• Elves are three gendered. Most elves are either male or female. A rare few are born hermaphroditic. These elves are considered blessed and get a great deal of respect from and have a great deal of responsibility to other elves.

Reproduction

Elves reproduce sexually.

• Elves can cross with any lesser, humanoid, or greater race.
• Elves aren’t very fertile. They have difficulty conceiving with any race, but particularly with one another.
• Purely elven pregnancies last about two years.

Age

Elves age slower than humans.

• Elven ages can be calculated by multiplying the age of their physical appearance were they human by 10. An elf that was entering adolescence would be around 100-120 years old.
• Upon reaching maturity (about 180 years old) elves do not physically age further. There are no old looking elves.

Diet

Elves are omnivores.

• Elves are vegetarian. They physically can eat meat, but they culturally choose not to.
• They do not eat anything that derives from death. This means that they do not eat any meat, eggs, or plant items whose harvesting would cause the death of the plant.
• They do consume milk, as it is harmless to the animal, and can eat certain plant stalks and leaves.
• Any form of fruit is also acceptable, but seeds and grains are not as they hold the life of a new organism in waiting.
• Elves are willing to consume small quantities of blood from animals, as this causes no long term harm to the animal. They use these small quantities of blood to make delicious blood sausage as a matter of fact.

Spirituality

Worship

Elves worship nature as opposed to any deities or following philosophies.

• There were no elven gods to be overthrown. The spirits of nature still gain power from the elves, but it is spread thin.

Afterlife

The elven afterlife is The Faerie.

• Elves have an immortal body in lieu of an immortal soul. When an elf dies, their spirit returns to nature along with their body.
• Very old elves may hear a call to a mystical land before this where they can live forever in bliss. They must make a dangerous journey to the mystical realm of the faerie to achieve their equivalent of the afterlife.

Other Considerations

• Elves have a deep connection to nature and the environment.

Magic and Technology

Magic

Elves are a very magical race.

• Elves are exceptional at learned magicks.
• Elves have a natural access to fey magicks.

Technology

While not very technological, elves have unique technology.

• Elves do not like, nor do they use forged weapons or armors, or constructed furnishings or apparel. Instead of beating, heating, or cutting natural material into the shapes that they need they grow them into the shapes that they need. They can do this because they have extremely long lives. Elven equipment tends to be formed from magically hardened wood, grass, and/or crystal. Even when forming their equipment, the whole tree, stand of grass, or crystal formation is never sacrificed for the item, just a tree limb, some grass blades, or small segment of crystal.

Culture

Elves are a carefree race of fey-descended humanoids.

Taboos

Elves are rather carefree having few taboos.

• Elves have no nudity taboo, and wear clothing only for warmth or fashion.
• Elves also have no issues with incest, bestiality, or underage sex. They are very much a free love society.
• Elves have a very strong taboo against harming nature.

Residence

Most elves are nomadic, and do not settle down in a single place. They have a homeland far away, hidden by powerful magic where there are elven settlements.

• In their homeland they do have towns, and even great cities, whose buildings are formed from millennia old trees grown with alcoves to house the elves. These special trees (called mother trees) can grow over a mile high, and house thousands of elves.
  • Each mother tree has a dryad spirit, which has the appearance of an elven female that appears made like a tree with green, leafy hair. Mother trees reproduce only through these dryads. When a dryad is of age (about 500 years old) she can mate with an elf (or any humanoid theoretically) to produce a mother seed. These seeds take ten years to mature, and then they are ready to be planted to form a new mother tree.
  • Mother tree dryads are spiritually linked to their mother tree. If a mother tree dies, the dryad will wither away and die slowly over the course of a year. If a mother tree’s dryad is killed, the tree continues to grow, but feels empty and foreboding to the elves. A dying mother tree dryad can be attached to a mother tree with no dryad through powerful fey magic to restore both.
  • Mother trees can also be specially grown to form ships for the elven fleet in which case they are called mother ships. These mother ships naturally desalinate water, meaning that the elven sailors never have a problem with thirst. They carry their own soil, which is also used to grow food for the sailors. They are one of the strongest ships one will ever find. Some of the strongest mother ships are grown with an outer coating of living crystal, and are nearly indestructible.

Other Considerations

• As peaceful as they are elves will fight and even kill to defend themselves and the natural world to which they are connected. To most elves this is a defensive ideal, but some elves believe it is their duty to hunt down and destroy those that defile nature. These elves are called dark elves. Dark elves look no different from any other elf; it is only their philosophy that sets them apart.