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| - | [[Elf|Elves]] are the second species created by the [[god|Gods]] [[Anilis]] and [[Senilis]], after [[Dwarf|Dwarves]] and before [[Troll]]s. An [[Elf|elf]] is pretty much like a basic [[human]], only they are not. They are ''immortal'' magic users, with stronger and faster bodies, and are sometimes more intelligent (not to be confused with being smarter). They have pointy ears and are mostly jerks (Well, maybe not any larger percentage of jerk-factor than there is in humans).
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| - | Elves can interbreed with humans, producing the imaginatively named [[Half Elf|half elves]].
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| - | ==Form persistence==
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| - | One of the keys to Elven 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, e.g. 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.
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| - | 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''.
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| - | ==The elven races==
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| - | There are four elven races, although according to [[Sarine Elle | Sarine]], they've intermingled with one another so much that there's basically no difference between them other than their names.
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| - | They don't use simple names like ''Wood Elves'' and ''Dark Elves,'' either. No, they use gratuitously hard to remember names like ''Rinkai Erufu''.
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| - | * [[Rinkai|Rinkai Erufu]]
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| - | * [[Keiren]]
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| - | * [[Sanguen]]
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| - | * [[Cimmerii]]
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| - | {{Author's Notes}}
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| - | ''(Taken from [http://forums.kyhm.com/viewtopic.php?t=10084&start=60&sid=01b975e2fd323bb118d4cceca4b96543 this thread] in the Forum)''
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| - | :''An elf reaches physical maturity a bit over 150 years of age; though socially they won't really be considered an adult till they are nearly 500+ years old. Additionally around that time it also becomes in rather poor taste for then to continue to refer to their parents as such instead of simply referring to them as relatives.
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| - | :''it's less an adolescence and more that period between 17-24 or so when they're not teenagers but not really expected to be adults yet ether.
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| - | :''Gestation period for an elf is approximately two years. ''
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| - | :''They require four or five hours of sleep. Though it is actual sleep, none of that bloody Tolkien/DnD trance stuff.''
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| - | {{Reference Articles}}
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| - | *[[:Category:Elves]] for a listing of named elven characters
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| - | *[[Human]]
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| - | *[[Half Elf]]
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| - | *[[Errant]]
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| - | *[[Healing]]
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