Views on the Other Races

The Dhe'nar view the split of the Elves into its seven separate houses to be the downfall of the Elven race. To them, unity and the practice of Arkati-inspired self-enlightenment are the goals to which everyone must strive to achieve. They see the bickering and quarreling among the other Elven houses as petty and have refused steadfastly, from the beginning, to take any part in the arguments or the political games and maneuverings they created and perpetuate.

When the Dhe'nar left the Elven nation, they left forever, believing the others to have betrayed the Arkati teachings and the spirit of the Elven people. The Dhe'nar have no emotion or pity for the other Elves, nor do they admit to having had anything to do with the fall of the Elven nation or its splintering into the seven houses.

While the Dhe’nar view of the other Elves is that of indifference, they view the mortal races with disdain and antipathy. The Dhe’nar know that they are superior to the mortal races, and of this they have no doubt. But, while they believe humans, giants, orcs, and other short lived, fast-breeding races to be not much more than a spreading virus, they do see a purpose in them. That purpose is to serve the Dhe’nar, and this is apparent in the slaves that the Dhe’nar capture, cultivate, and breed to perform manual tasks. That purpose also extends into something that is new to the Dhe’nar dogma, having only surfaced one or two millennia ago. The extension of the purpose of mortals is that of students. The Dhe’nar believe that just as the Arkati shared bits of their knowledge and wisdom with the Elves so that they could leave their caves and grow as a race, the Dhe’nar should begin to do the same, showing the lesser, mortal races how to evolve beyond their current primitive state so that when the Dhe’nar ascend, there will be those more worthy to worship them. Despite this, the Dhe’nar continue to keep the mortal races they encounter in check, and do not think twice about destroying them when the Dhe’nar consider them "out of line".