Elsyven

Elsyven are the race of rare beings who share the most physical resemblance to humans, and could be mistaken for beautiful humans except by noting a few of their defining traits. Although the Elsyven do not hate the humans they find them brash, reckless and destructive. Humans call this a superiority complex, which the Elsyven often do not suppress or rival. Elsyven also have an on going rivalry with the Dwarves that is unknown in origin, and a great hate of the Deshiven. Not all Elsyven are good in nature, and believe themselves to be exactly as the humans pinpoint them.

A slang term that is offten used in racial reference to the Elsyven is Elf, or Elves. This is used by other races, particularly humans and dwarves. For the most part many elsyven find this term to be primitive, derogatory, and would never use it in their own dialect. For the most part the elsyven dislike/hate those references, and most elsyven even take great offense to the term.

All Elsyven can live to be 700 years old, and tend to take their time with things because their view on time is far different than many of the short lived races. Elsyven appear at first glance to be frail when compared to man. They are physically weaker than humans, not being able to withstand the weight of heavy weapons and armor. They have a difficult time in physical combat against humans and foes whom possess greater physical strength. An elsyven cannot with stand heavy physical blows, for they are far more susceptible at obtaining deadly damage, especially broken bones, than the other more hearty races. However, because they are generally thin and light they have a slightly greater agility than humans and some of the other humanoid races. Their ways of fighting appear to be more of a dance, using their agility to make up for their weaker constitutions. Many Elsyven take up magical professions or or one that would depend on their lightness of foot. Common classes are druids, sorcerers, wizards, mystics, clerics or rangers.

All Elsyven are pale in complexion, with smooth unblemished porcelain or pale peach skin, they do not tan nor possess any form of skin adornments such as beauty marks or freckles. Most have bright or pale colored hair that is commonly thin smooth and straight, sometimes slightly wavy, never curly. Brown or dull shades are uncommon, black is rare. Their eyes are usually a beautiful hue of blue, aqua, silver, gold, violet, amber or green, green being most common. Their features are delicate and finely chiseled, slender noses, high cheekbones, high foreheads, delicately shaped lips and pointed chins. One of their most defining features is their ears, which are slender and long, tapering off to a sharp point, and stick out slightly from the sides of their head through their hair.

Males have lightly muscled bodies, though this muscle never amasses like a humans would, so they tend to look lean and thin. Females have gentle elegant bodies, with thin waists, elegant arms and legs. Elven females never gain ample cleavage like a humans, so are often endowed with small or average sized breasts. Since both males and females have such elegant features, common beauty and light voices at times it can be hard for other races to discern a male from a female, and vise versa. The maximum height a male Elsyven has grown to is 5' 10”, and a females maximum height had been recorded at 5” 6”. Males usually weight between 90 and 150 lbs and are typically taller than the females, and females weight between 80 and 130 lbs. Elsyven are basically immune to any form of scarring except if it is done by magical means.

Elsyven males do not grow facial hair. No Elsyven would look a day over forty, even at their peak age at around 700years. Their aging is very subtle and hardly noticeable except maybe at the corner of their eyes, a few very fine lines on the face. Graying hair would be uncommon and only happening when they've pushed up towards their maximum age, usually around their 600's. This gray hair would only occur around the temple areas.

All Elsyven love jewelry, and are often sporting many bracelets, necklaces or rings and some hair adornments. Elsyven take their crafts and creativity to a whole new level and try to accomplish everything they do in a manner of grace and beauty. Many a times this makes for many appealing items of elvish craft, that humans do like to seek. Yet Elsyven, even though masters at what they do, they are not masters of armor crafting, and although their light crafted armors are beautiful works of art, they are not as sturdy or as highly functional as a humans, and no where near a Dwarves standards.

The Elsyven often wear pastel or earthy colors, especially blues, greens, violets and often white and favor flowing garments of fine design. Elsyven take a great appreciation for art and the natural world around them. They enjoy music and dancing, yet their form of dances are formal compared to how other races dance and their music light and lilting, mystical. Elsyven like to eat fruits, vegetables, herbs, assortments of nuts, breads and cheeses. A common misconception is that elves, being that they like to mingle with and respect nature, is that they are strictly vegetarian. This is not true for all elves, for it is a personal preference, just like it is for humans, though they never eat red meats. Elsyven drink light fruit wines and avoid human crafted spirits, especially ale, honey mead and hard liquor, for it tends to have a highly intoxicating effect in elves, nearly double that of the effect it would have on a man who drank regularly.

All Elsyven seem to possess a great amount of supreme confidence and unwavering self valor, and rarely do they show great bouts of emotion. Of course they are quite capable of emotional outbursts as any being, but they express themselves far different than a human would, and to them any emotional outburst on their part would be justified by the reason, and even then they don't lose their temper like a human would. They tend to keep to themselves and Elsyven find unreasonable emotional tirades to be signs of weakness. So mostly to those that don't know how the Elsyven are they appear unnaturally serene, cold, snobbish, uncaring and/or aloof. They, however, are quite open with their own families and close friends, though this display of emotion is again different than how a human would express, and so humans and Elsyven find that their cultural differences are their biggest obstacles.

A few of the most noted elven clans in Calamia are Ithiraa, Drasnia, Stoneveil, Queras'lin and the former Arynswen. Unfortunately the Arynswen clan were wiped from the earth many years ago. Ithiraa is the highest ranked Elsyven clan and is considered the head Elsyven nation, with the majority of the population, followed by Queras'lin, Drasnia and then Stoneveil.