They call themselves the Children of the Forest. The Gifted and the Blessed of Lady Vriclar. Yet the Elves are not all that they may seem and less then they would wish they are. Talented Warriors and Casters, they say they fight for the forest, they say that they fight to protect all living things. And yet their Queen knows what they never can. The great Forest of Lathrandar has a voice, a whispering echo of it's will, and yet it will never speak to the Elves. The Elves cannot command the trees or the spirits that dwell in the eaves of the woods and this makes their self-proclaimed protection almost pointless.


Physical Description: Elven features are delicate, cheekbones higher then in humans and their eyes narrower, but in general are very close to humanity in appearance. They have eternal youth though and their skin does not age, leaving no signs of long life that blemish the flesh and weaken the body. Their eyes and ears are highly sensitive and they are amidst the foremost archers on Tal'Vorn, second only to the Lar'K'Leth ShadowWalkers. One of the things that marks them out however is their delicately pointed ears, similar to those of the Lar'K'Leth. However it is unknown if Vriclar based her Children upon that reclusive Race, though several similarities do point to it. Almost all of them are gifted with exceptional beauty, as befits the children of the Goddess of Life and Beauty, Vriclar. Their looks has even been known to touch the ferocious hearts of DragonLords, leading to more then one Hybrid walking the forest of Lathrandar. More then just looks, however, being children of the Vriclar, the Elves have been blessed with one of Tal'Vorns rarest gifts. That of immortality.


Personality: The Elves have been accused on more then one occasion of the sin of arrogance. In some cases, this is completely true. As the Elves can never die, barring sickness and war, many believe that this makes them better then the other, shorter lived Races of Tal'Vorn. Though no Anvar would ever admit to being the inferior of an Elf, this doesn't stop some Elves from loudly making this point. However, the majority are a relatively benign people, at least in peace. In war however, one would be a fool to discount their delicate frame for weakness. Masters of the bow and consummately skilled in fighting within woodlands, Elves excel at ambush warfare. They habitually wear clothing formed of skins or fallen wood, as these resources are plentiful. Indeed even the tips of their arrows are typically formed of flint, rather then metal. In this, as in all things, the Elves are highly skilled at using the bounty given to them by the natural world itself.


Religion: Whilst the Elves revere their Goddess, most of them know that they will not meet her for a long time. As such they often have little interest in obvious displays of faith. A notable exception to this, however, is the One Tree, a truly colossal oak tree in the depths of Lathrandar Forest, which is also the site of the Elves home city, Lathra. The Elves have an undying respect for the One Tree, worshipping it as a representative of Lady Vriclar upon the world, and as such they refuse to take any part of it's living wood, building their city upon the boughs themselves, the tree itself forming a natural floor of bark and roof of leaves. The walls were woven from dead wood and fallen leaves, each leaf of the One Tree being the length of a man's forearm.


Relations: Elves get on well with many of the Races, seeing no reason to foster ill will where there should be little. DragonLords, being creatures of nature and not given to overt destruction of the trees, make for surprisingly close allies. The Dwarves and Humans however, being creatures of industry, are less then favoured. The Elves take a dim view of the cutting down of any tree, especially for something so pointless as burning or paper. Lathrandar being so densely wooded, the massive Anvar find it uncomfortable to navigate and thus the Elves are mostly spared their pogroms. Fae, Soulless and Mermen are all welcomed as interesting and entertaining visitors to the Elven lands.


Territory: The Elves live, primarily, within the great Lathrandar Forest, a truly sprawling mass of woodland and forest that spread for further then the mind can imagine. Within the depths of the forest, many of the trees are thousands of years old, some of them actually managing to reach more then a thousand meters in height. These mammoth giants are somewhat rare, however, with more normal sized trees being the norm closer to the edges of the Forest. Within the very core of Lathrandar however, is the largest of the trees, known as the One Tree. With a base width of almost a kilometre, the trees branches wave in the breeze almost five thousand meters above the surface of the ground.


Language: Elves are, unlike a lot of Races, completely flippant with their spoken and written languages, teaching both to anyone who expresses an interest. They do, however, have another language which they are less willing to share. Elven rangers and warriors are taught a complex form of sign language, enabling them to communicate silently over short distances.


Names: Elves tend to gather names over their long years, with lovers and long term friends giving them nicknames and the Elf him or herself going by several different names as the whim occurs to them. For example: Male: Akashi Futoshi, Haruka, Osami, Taisuke, Takumi, Yuuta Female: Chihiro, Haruka, Kaori, Saeko, Suzuka , Yui