Snow Elves
Far to the East on the icy continent of Norinia lies the last vestiges of the snow elves. Like their Wood Elf brethren the ancestors of the snow elves set out from Sungsong to blaze their own trail. They migrated all the way north to the pine forests of the Frozen Climbs, where they carved out a new empire for themselves.
For millenia this small yet powerful population of elves dominated the continent, sharing a similar, peaceful-yet strained relationship with the native lycans as their ancestors had with the faelene of Syridia. The frigid climate seemingly emphasized their already fair features, making ghostly pale hair and skin and icy eyes the norm, if not the rule. They developed their own culture, songs, and mannerisms; certainly derivative of their high elf ancestors, but also unique to the materials and experience they shared. Perhaps the most notable, unique aspect of snow elf culture was the domestication and husbandry of pegasi. The original pegasus rides captured and tamed the beasts which were native to the grassland now called the Valk Tundra. The elves were famed riders in the height of their power, capable of dueling wing to wing with even the likes of dragons, but have since been surpassed by the legendary Valkyries of Nixalia.
The ages-old kingdom was forced to adapt to the changes of the Dragon Age. When Nixalia the Barberous retook her draconic form and began amassing armies of lycans and her newly twisted thals, the snow elves could see the looming threat to their way of life. Initially they held their ground, defending their homes in the shade of the mountain forests in a series of small, bloody skirmishes. It was not until the formation of the Valkyries, stealing the very heart of snow elven culture, that they began migrating their people west, away from the white dragon's strongholds and beyond the Cloud Monastery. Though some stayed and continued the fight, they slowly lost the wars of attrition to the point where only the elves who fled remain alive today.
Thus far the decision to leave has shown to be prudent, as Nixalia has refrained from taking her armies so far afield and marching them through the Nimbus Monks' lands to attack the last vestiges of elven territory in the forest called the Frostwood. There the snow elves endure, diminished but not wholy conquered. Some point to their continued existence and contrast it with the fate of their high elven cousins, who chose to stand and fight in the face of an Elder Dragon Curse and were resultingly anhiliated. Whether the snow elves were too cowardly or the high elves too stubborn is a question probably best not broached with either group.
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