Elves

A once-proud race now reduced to living on the fringes of civilization without a land to call their own, the elven peoples are scattered across Seras. Comparatively, they are the smallest number of the various races and ethnicities, and they have few known bastions of their culture. The most notable one being Gilthraven Hall, a magical college just off the island of Sisceal. The elven culture has been all but forgotten in the world today, though there are small pieces of it existing in family groups and ancient texts housed in dusty library shelves. Collectively, the elves are like a ship without a rudder, following the currents of the world without being able to enact directional change on their own.

Culture

Major language groups and dialects

Elves, by no one's surprise, almost universally have at least a basic understanding of Elven language. Many also speak Sylvan.

Shared customary codes and values

Some of the few remaining cultural values the elves have retained over the millennium since their fall from grace is a deep connection to arcane magic. Elves view magic as a living, breathing thing and are, of all the various humanoid races, the deepest connected to it. The arcane comes to them naturally, and the vast majority of elves are capable of learning magic if they show the inclination. While, of course, there are clerics and warriors and other such people among them--as there are in any culture--elves by in large lean toward arcane magic as the root of life. They see it as the wellspring from whence all other things sprang.

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