High Elves

Created by the goddess of harmony and music Elidra, High Elves (Eliphas in their tongue) came to Norindaal at the end of the Century of Fire and Rain protected by Rock Cradles (magical meteorites). Dwarves dug the first Elves out of the stones. Then the Elves freed their remaining fellows from the Cradles. To this day, some Elves roam the world looking for other Elves who are still trapped in the Cradles. Incredibly long-lived but nearly infertile, the High Elves are wistful creatures, incline to mirth and melancholy at the same time. They see themselves as a superior race whose place is among the stars, not with other mortals. Their bodies are covered in elegantly scripted birthmark swirls that spell out the Elf’s complete name. The scripts go around all the Elf’s body. For this reason, it is said that only a lover and a mother know an Elf’s True Name.