Elves

Elves are elves are elves. But don't tell them that. If you ask a high elf if they are related to dark elves, not only will they respond with a definite NO, they will likely become insulted for even suggesting such an outrageous thing.

High Elves
There is a small elven village high in the treetops of their forest to avoid lycans. This settlement is to the south of Haven. The elves have good access to wood, fish, vines, game, which they use to trade with the Humans and Dwarves.

Physical Traits
Elves are almost completely immune to serious disease and most deadly poisons, and an epidemic amongst the Elven population is extremely unlikely. Although individuals can get sick, their symptoms are minor and they very rarely die from disease. For poisons elves are not immune to, it takes ten times the amount of poison that a human can take to kill an Elf. Elves have superior hearing and some sounds that can be considered loud can be experienced as painful or deafening to Elves. Elves mature around the age of 25 and they will keep looking like they are in their twenties until they reach the age of 250, beyond this point they age more slowly. The average elf expires at the age of 320, but there have been instances when some individuals shatter this number. The oldest elf reached the age of 842, but at the time she was so old she could hardly leave her own bed.

Magical Traits
Elves are magically the most gifted race.

Appearance
Elves always have a light skin color, and when darker variants do appear they are from interbreeding with the other races. Elves have pointy ears. Elves can have all kinds of different hair colors. Every naturally occurring hair color in humans is also found in elves. Elven hair tends to be more shiny than their human counterparts. All pure-blooded elves have no facial hair follicles. In fact, besides their head, they typically will not grow any hair on their bodies. Elves are physically leaner than the other races and because of their very fast metabolism an obese elf is nigh impossible. Males and females tend to reach the same average height of 201cm, and this number rarely varies much. The tallest elf on record was only 210cm and the smallest only 188cm.

Dark Elves
Dark elves are the group of elves that roam the forest floor where little light can penetrate through the thick canopy of leaves. Unlike their high-elven cousins, dark elven settlements aren't large, and they tend to consist of only a few houses. Dark elves are the most rare type of elves, rarely mixing with other races. When they do, the tend to congregate in dwarves settlements.

Due to them living mostly on the ground, dark elves are expert blacksmiths, lumberjacks and miners. The best armor and weaponsmiths of the elves tend to be dark elves.

Physical Traits
Dark elves are physically stronger and bulkier than their other elven cousins, causing their agility, flexibility and stamina to suffer slightly. As with all elves, dark elves have a good metabolism, granting them a greater resistance to poison. Due to living mostly in the dark, dark elves have adapted limited night-vision, granting them ability to see 5 meters away as if in normal light, and out to 10 meters as if in dim light. Dark elves also have heightened hearing and smell. Dark elves have a shorter lifespan than other elves and both males and females have an average lifespan of 270 years.

Magical Traits
Dark elves aren't as magically adept as other elves. The percentage of mages amongst the dark elves is lower than any other elves. However, they still possess inherent magical abilities and the capacity for great feats of magic, comparable to other non-elven races.

Appearance
Dark elves have a dark skin color. Most dark elves have a skin color that varies between dark ashen gray to onyx with a purplish tint. Rarely, dark elves will have a dark purple skin. Their hair color varies from light to dark, with no predominant color. Unlike other races, in some rare instances, dark elves may have natural dark purple hair. Male dark elves are the only elves that can grow a beard, albeit thinly. Their eye colors tends to be a darker shade of purple, red, yellow, orange or blue.

Dark elves have an average height of 190cm for males and 188cm for females.

Occupants of Kasmara
No dark elf settlements exist on Kasmara. A small group of dark elves live amongst the dwarves.