Red Elves
As the name suggests, these elves are named for their coloring. Their skin tends to be pale and rosy, but some have more prominent reddish tones that make them appear sunburned to humans. Their hair ranges from a pale strawberry blond, to bright ginger, to a dark auburn. Their eyes are generally green or blue.
The red elves are also known as Charmers, since the breed's specific magical talent seems social in nature. Red elves are known to be gregarious, fantastic storytellers, and preternaturally persuasive. Many red elves also display an uncanny knack for languages, often acquiring a working knowledge and sizable vocabulary of a foreign tongue within a week of being around it. Many have speculated that such incidents are examples of their magical traits at work.Perhaps because of their charming nature, red elves are the most recognizable and familiar kind elf to Elothninians. Today, a number of red elves live in the Fethil, farming and going into the human towns periodically for supplies. Red elves can also be found in the capital city of Neerhemhind, where there is an entire district known as Elftown. Relations between humans and red elves are generally good. In the Fethil, many regard red elves as very nearly human (save for those unfortunate ears and their strange distaste for mush) and are well accepted. During the harvest season, the elves often hold dancing circles at the Fethilian festivals, and encourage the humans to join.
Red elves who do not make their home in our fair land are said to live and farm in the valleys of the Klevarcht mountains to the north. Since these valleys are quite cramped, with much of the land being used for crops, all the elves in the valley live together in one large building which functions much like an apartment complex. (For more infromation, see A Short History of Red Elves)
Blue Elves
The blue elves can be identified by their unique coloring, with blue or green skin and dark blue hair. Generally, their skin is on the paler side and their hair is dark, but this is not always the case. Blue elves almost always have pale grey eyes.
These elves do not seem interested in interacting with humans unless absolutely necessary, so not much is known of the blue elves but that they live in deep within the Erkenheld Forest, and
are matriarchal. Those that have seen them report that they have a peculiar magical faculty with plants and trees. Some claim to have seen them cause tender shoots to grow into massive trees in the blink of an eye, and others say that they live in arboreal homes formed by asking the trees to grow in particular ways. While interesting, such claims ought to be taken with a grain of salt as there is no forthcoming proof that such things have actually happened.Silver Elves
The silver elves are perhaps the most striking of the elves. They have dark gray skin, sometimes with bluish undertones, which contrasts sharply with their bright white or silver hair. Their eyes are most often violet, but can sometimes be blue as well.
The silver elves are also known as the Tinkers for their ability to create intricate and unnervingly realistic clockwork creatures. Those that have seen their work firsthand say that
the tinkers' advanced technologic gifts can be none other than the expression of their magical abilities.The silver elves are orginally mountain folk, like dwarves, but have abandoned their ancestral home long ago for the San-Kesh desert. In the desert, the tinkers live among the felintarks with virtually no inter-species discord. There is a small population of silver elves in Elothnin, who live in Elftown, because the felintarks and tinkers have a custom of sending a small delegation of their people to live in other nations as ambassadors.
See Also:
Pipe-weed
Elvish dueling
Jellihondor
Rethnaki
Queen Svava
Norsa
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