An elf is a creature of Germanic mythology. The elves were originally thought of as a race of minor nature and fertility gods, who are often pictured as youthful-seeming men and women of great beauty living in forests and underground places and caves, or in wells and springs. They have been portrayed to be long-lived or immortal and as beings of magical powers
They are the most magical of races, sprung directly from the blood of Time, according to legend.
They are adept at shapeshifting, almost as much as djinn. Their true form may be itself inherently flexible, so that changes of coloration, hair length and texture, and fatty tissue of the face, are as trivial for them as changes of posture and facial expression. Stable sub-types include:
- "Noldorin" - fair skin, dark hair, grey eyes
- "dusky" - blending mediterranean/polynesian/amerind, occasionally point-eared
- Asian
- African
- blond - sometimes point-eared, sometimes with blankly shining blue eyes
- white - snow white, platinum blond and silver-eyed, sometimes luminous
- black - like tar, even palms and nails, with blue or violet teeth and sclera
- green
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blue
Whatever their habitual or true appearance, it is always tall, slender, and beautiful. The skin is delicate and flawless, the hair fine and thick, the eyes large and slightly almond, due to underlying bone structure rather than to any optional epicanthic fold. |