Okay for a start off I would like to say just how sorry I am for my absence from this site for the past 2 months. I wish to apologise to all my Followers of this story and all of you who have given it a Favourite or even Reviewed on it. I have no real excuse for my lack of 3rd Chapter other than I have been struggling with it and I hope you can all forgive me for this.
I appreciate all of you for Following/Favouriting/Reviewing on my story, it really means a lot and I am really sorry there has been this HUGE delay on my part. Rest assured I am not done with this project at all (especially not after only posting just 2 Chapters) and I am working through the issue I am having with it, it is just taking some time and I am really truly very sorry for that.
I hope you can all forgive me for that and I hope you haven't all given up on me just yet.
Anyway. What I am posting here is some information. Some people have been asking in the reviews what Sun Elves can do and such and I just thought I would give you a little bit of the lore that I am aiming to tie in with the story. I have left out stuff to do with the Ancient Ones, because their lore will be coming out as I go along. Just a heads up though, the Ancient Ones refer to Dragons, but that is pretty much all the information I am giving on that front.
So I hope the information I have posted here will answer some question for you. If you have any further questions, you can message me on this site or leave me a review and I will answer your questions, unless it is part of the plot in some manner. But aside from that; once again I am sorry, and I hope for now this will answer some questions on the whole lore of the Elves I have in this story.
Thanks very much and I am sorry.
MiscMasquerade.
Sun Elves: Most prosperous of the Elven races, they naturally became the ruling class of Elves. Also known has High Elves, they hold command of the Fire element like no other Elven race, and they are also highly talented with Arcane magic, which is the magic that comes from spell scrolls, magic staffs and spell books.
In culture the Sun Elves seek nothing but perfection. They create some of the finest artists, poets, authors and sorcerers in the world has ever known. The ideology that nothing is ever good enough is something the Sun Elves hold very strongly and will pull out all the stops in their search of absolute perfect in their craft and their work. It has led to some of the finest cities being built, with the grandest of architecture ever known.
In appearance they are tall with tanned skin, most have fiery red hair, auburn hair or golden blonde hair, with either green or blue eyes.
Moon Elves: Also known as the Prophet Elves, they are the second most prosperous Elf race in Wonderland, their native homeland being Diamonds.
They are natural prophets or Oracles, their main magic skill being in Divination and their element is Water. Within Diamonds there is a special Order where Moon Elves will train exceptionally gifted children to become Oracles.
In appearance they have very pale almost translucent skin and eye colours ranging from deep blue to bright violet. Their hair colours range from either ebony black to a raven-blue. However, a rare event will sometimes happen for Moon Elves and a child will be born with silver or white hair which Moon Elves will refer to as 'kissed by the Moon' and take it as a sign that the child will be a great Oracle. Most children born like this are whisked away at a young age to be trained by the Order.
Wild Elves: Also known as Tribal Elves, these are the Nomads of the Elven race. They tend to live in small tribal societies within the forests or in far flung mountain valleys. They have an adaptability skill which means they can adjust to most, if not all, environments, this means Wild Elves can be found everywhere and anywhere. Wild Elves take this to heart and they truly do live anywhere, some living in snow covered wastelands and others taking the other extreme and living in scorching deserts. Whatever land they live in they make their own.
They have a very strong connection with the Earth, which is their main source of magic. Every tribe has a Shaman, who is their healer, a wise woman or man, acts as an advisor to the Chief and, most importantly, upholds the ancient rituals and traditions of their people, also acting as a voice to their primeval gods.
In appearance they have dark skin, from shades of olive to darker shades of earthy browns. Most hair colours tend to be black or brown, but some are known to have dark red hair. Eye colours range from green, brown and sometimes amber.
Silver Elves: Also known as Dark Elves, these Elves are renowned for their crafting abilities and shrewd business like approach to life.
Silver Elves are known as such for their appearance and the shades of their skin, most having a silver or grey colour to their skin, some have even darker skin so it looks like iron or steel, and yet there are those who have a blue tint to their silver skin, however this is rather rare.
They often have white or very pale blonde hair, with any eye colour possible, though all iris are tinted with a silver colour also.
Even with Sun Elves putting forward their never ending search for perfection in craft and producing some beautiful items, few Elves will deny the finery of what is made by a Silver Elf. All craft is designed to near enough perfection for the purpose it was meant for. Weapons will never dull or break, armour will always remain strong and any jewellery they craft will shine as bright as any star.
With such skills in craft it has led to most Silver Elves being some of the most formidable traders, it is not uncommon to find groups of Silver Elves travelling with trading caravans or perhaps owning their own shops. The most successful of them have trading Empires stretching across all of Wonderland.
Don't be fooled by their mercantile appearance, however, Silver Elves are fierce warriors and spell casters. Most spell wielding Silver Elves have the power to call the energies of the Storms themselves and cast powerful Illusions to fool their enemies. The Silver Elves are also known for darker branches of magic, that being Conjuration and Necromancy. But the warrior Silver Elves are known for their death or glory attitude, especially when it comes to the defence of what is most important to them.
Lythari Elves: The most mysterious of the Elven race, they are truly wolves at heart. It is said that the first Lythari made a pact with an ancient Nature Deity which blessed them with the power to evoke the Spirit of Nature and thus gifted them with a second form: that of a Wolf.
Whether this story is true or not, it cannot be denied that the spirit of nature runs through the Lythari, everything about them, their culture and their hierarchal structure echoes of a more primeval nature.
Their magic is often thought to be dark and chaotic, which it is, but there is also the potential for pure and light qualities. Their magic represents a duality, a balance that exists in nature, good and evil which is what nature is. However, generations of mistrust toward their rather fickle magic and some of the problems that could come from the rather volatile nature has left it being labelled as Dark or Black magic and thus has been banned in Spades, Diamonds and Hearts, the only Kingdom that permits it is Clubs. One of the other reason for this is the connection such magic has to the Ancient Ones.
This single fact meant that the Lythari had to learn more on Arcane magic and how to use that, something they have become talented with the magic, just not quite as much as they are with their natural magic.
In appearance Lythari are very mismatched, since whatever young they have will always be Lythari regardless if the second parent is Sun, Moon, Silver, Wild, Snow Elves or otherwise. Many years in this manner has left the lack of distinction in features like there is with the other Elven races. However, the colour of their wolf pelts will always match the hair colour in some fashion, an example being a Lythari with red hair will have a rust coloured pelt in wolf form, or a blonde Lythari will have a white gold coloured pelt.
Snow Elves: Snow Elves are different to all other Elves. Compared to the other five, which all share a common ancestor, the Snow Elves are something else entirely. Agile, with their fair hair and gentle features, the Snow Elves were the original natives to Wonderland, along with the Ancient Ones. They were here long before the other Elves sailed over on their silver ships, and because of this some of the other Elves denounce the Snow Elves entirely, claiming them to not be true Elves at all.
Due to this prejudice the Snow Elves were pushed out of their ancestral lands in the heart of Wonderland and up into the snow covered mountains in the far Northern regions of Clubs, where they tend to be left alone in their isolation.
Another reason they are treated with such suspicion is due to how they revere the Ancient Ones and worship them as gods. A fact that most other Elves would not dream of doing after past history and various wars.
The Snow Elf society is very isolated, large cities built in the mountain valleys they call home and with this isolation very little is known about them, and due to the judgement they receive few will ever think of leaving the safety of the mountain cities.
Their magic is a mystery, but one of their most obvious skills is how they seem to just be able to vanish without a trace, leaving no tracks or evidence they were there in the first place. It is known that they are talented hunters and fierce warriors, but what they are most famed for is their mounts. Instead of using horses, Snow Elves use swift, sure footed pure snow white elk as large as any horse and all are antlered regardless of gender.
In appearance, any who has had the rare chance to see a Snow Elf will tell you that there are none quite as beautiful, their skin like porcelain with white, silver or very pale blonde hair, eyes ranging from dark blues to vivid amethyst purple.
