Elves
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This, in [[Elf|elves]] and [[Half Elf|half-elves]], is actually a boon and benefit. | This, in [[Elf|elves]] and [[Half Elf|half-elves]], is actually a boon and benefit. | ||
| - | It tends to maintain their youthful appearance and is one of the factors that helps to increase half-elf lifespans, even though half-elves are still mortal. However, this becomes a real problem for [[Errant]]s. | + | It tends to maintain their youthful appearance and is one of the factors that helps to increase half-elf lifespans, even though half-elves are still mortal. However, this becomes a real problem for ''[[Errant]]s''. |
==The elven races== | ==The elven races== | ||
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Elves can interbreed with humans, producing the imaginatively named half elves, or Errants.
Physical persistance
One of the keys to Elvin youth and immortality is that their magic continuously refreshes their bodies. Every few hours an Elf body slowly refreshes all the various features back to their natural state. This restricts their use of magic to make permanent changes in themselves such as, by use of the Polymorph Spell. They have to work harder to overcome this natural resistance to change away from their natural form and then their bodies eventually, in short order, revert anyway. This also makes them lousy Shape Changers and mimics. They can do it for short periods but at great cost in manna.
This, in elves and half-elves, is actually a boon and benefit. It tends to maintain their youthful appearance and is one of the factors that helps to increase half-elf lifespans, even though half-elves are still mortal. However, this becomes a real problem for Errants.
The elven races
There are four elven races, although they've intermingled with one another so much that there's basically no difference between them other than their names.
They don't use simple names like Wood Elves and Dark Elves, either. No, they use gratuitously hard to remember names like Rinkai Erufu.
