Elves
A race of tall and graceful people, elves are great appreciators of beauty and have been accused of shunning hard work, although as their forest orientated lives are far from easy this is mostly unjustified.
Civilization and Culture
Naming Traditions
Elves see beauty in names, and will often change their second name to reflect what they revere or think is fitting of their charecter. Therefore it is often easy to gauge some basic information about their personality from it.
Major Organizations
The deep forest elves have complicated democratic systems of government, as well as a subtle social heiracy. The organisations that run these cities are called collectives, and meet in halls called Sullae.
Beauty Ideals
Elves believe physical form is important, and that everyone should remain reasonably slender and fit.
Relationship Ideals
Elves are flexible in their relationships, but usually strictly monoganous. They see love in a similar sense to the moon, a great beauty that waxes and wanes naturally. As such they expect to have several relationships in their long lives, and bid each goodbye with thanks and without much sorrow.
Major Language Groups and Dialects
They speak elvish and common, many deep forest elves speak sylvan.
Elven is an intricate, romantic-style language, with many dialects including long and complex words
Sylvan is similar to latin, with emphasis on vowels and few hard sounds.
History
Elves come from the deep forsets of nardish, both hot and temprate, and to some extent are still at home there. The traditions they hold in these areas are ancient and well respected, and the forest-bound cities have a natural and largely private beauty. As such, these high elves shun other races.
The elves seen by most of the world have left these closed societies to live more in accordance with the other races of that land. Driven out by ancient dissagreements or wanderlust, or just a change in circumstance, most of these elves live among other races, or in small communities, it is rare to find a town outside the dense forests where elves have a majority.
Related Organizations
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