Errant

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An Errant is a Half Elf, but there's more to it than that. The historic meaning of the term "Errant" confined it to describing half elves who had something physically, mentally or magically wrong with them. Over time most of the elves came to treat all half elves as Errants. The Errant War, a long time before the main body of our story, had something to do with that, although certain interesting details haven't been filled in (yet).

Sarine, as usual, goes her own way in dealing with Errants, even though her job as a ranger is to patrol the world beyond the elven lands and eliminate threats to elvenkind -- which most elves take to include all half elves, whether defective or not. Her lengthy monologue in Chapter 10 is responsible for much of what we know, or think we know, about the state of Errantcy. Most of the other elves we've seen (Sarna, Toren, Elven Council, etc.) aren't nearly as careful to distinguish between "normal" half elves and Errants, which is one of the main reasons we have a story. Note, however, that Sarine's friend Misa seems to understand that a half elf is not necessarily an Errant. Well, at a mere 1400 years old, she's too young to know any better.