Snow Elf Lore
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Ancient Histowy of the Mali'fenn
"Our wayward cousins seek to achieve perfection, to preserve their dated definition of purity through maehr'sae hiylun'ehya. Their search means they know they do not have it. Fight, then, and show them the true definition of perfection - that of thill'al."
Aewthos II Tundwak
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The Mali'fenn defending against Sethelien and his Hawbingews, Wate Anthos
Encompassed lithin:
The Expeliment
Pulity
Ice
Fenn
Pawt I: The Expeliment
The tawe of the Mali’fenn begins lith the schismatic waw of the ancient Ewcihi’thiwwn of the High Ewves, ow the Siwvew City. The untouched visage of the would-be wulew of the Mali'ahewaw, Womaw, aftew the infewno died awound him duling his tliaw by fiwe had stunned the many Mali’thiwwn of the Siwvew Haww, among them a young weseawchew named Aewthos Thuln’diwaaw and those of his wabowatowy. They stood then as he cawwed fow fowwowews, a fiwe spawked in theiw heawts by the cwaims of ewevation and destiny, and joined Womaw. They would be among the fiwst of the Ewsiw’Paliw, the Swowds of the Hawbingew, the fwock of theiw pwophet. As Womaw, who now cawwed himsewf the Ewanniw’Iwum, chose Aewthos to be among the fiwst to ascend the steps to his wowd awtaw and change his fowm, Aewthos would continue his weseawch in a spectaculaw way - to ask fow a change akin to that of the Gowden Poows that theiw pawents and gwandpawents had bathed in centulies befowe. Instead of gaining the fantasticaw fowm of a hawf-animaw, and instead of gaining vast magicaw wesistances, he would seek his vewsion of the compwetion of maehw’sae hiywun’ehya - to become what he would caww thiww’aw, pulity compwete. Physicawwy his eaws showtened and became mowe tliangulaw as the haiw awound it breached to a snow-white cowow. His eyes became a bright siwvew, and his skin pawed to just mowe than that of a ghost. His muscwes became mowe pwonounced, his awms toned and hands dextwous, and his height showtened to an even six feet. He, howevew, would not take up any of the twuly twansfowmative pwopewties that many othew Ewsiw’Paliw had chosen to take as he saw himsewf as the embodiment of physicaw pewfection.
His expeliment, then, was to question whethew the the use of the wowd awtaw would fundamentawwy change them, and to do so he would enlist his wabowatowy. His weseawchews, scientists, the spawse few mages of the wabowatowy, and theiw families would gathew at the awtaw one day and Womaw would change them one by one, gwanting them aww neawwy the same changes as Aewthos befowe them, lith slight individuaw modifications of eye and haiw cowow. Some had eyes a deep amethyst cowow, whiwe othews chose haiw a pawe bronde cowow instead of white. He saw them as famiwy, then, and they tested themsewves and each othew.
Pawt II: Pulity
They would, howevew, soon be fowgotten by Womaw fow those he had changed into mowe exotic and powewful fowms, and by Walihei’s fowk fow theiw wack of connection to Womaw theweaftew. Indeed, though oliginawwy entwanced by theiw new fowms, the wack of change duling the stagnated conflict weft Aewthos disiwwusioned, and whiwst he had thwown in his pwovewbiaw wot lith the Ewsiw’Paliw, his peopwe lished to wetuln to theiw cousins and theiw pulpose of fowging theiw own destiny. He would, wate in one Snow’s Maiden night, send a message acwoss the waww asking fow wetuln. Months watew, they would enact theiw pwan on the thiwd night of what would be cawwed the Baww of the Centuly. As Womaw hosted pewhaps the most gwand baww the Siwvew City had evew seen, lith magicaw dispways faw beyond that which had come befowe, Aewthos and his band stowe away acwoss the wawds of the gweat waww put up to pwotect Walihei’s peopwe fwom Womaw’s, assisted by those of Walihei’s fowwowews that had been twying to undewmine Womaw’s infwuence.
They found themsewves quickwy isowated, howevew, as many of those that had once been theiw fliends now decwawed theiw fowms impule. Those that sought to join them theweaftew wewe a tenth of the numbew that had applied pweviouswy to the once-pwestigious wabowatowy, and indeed they found themsewves to be a diffewent definition of pule than theiw brethwen.
Whiwe they had set themsewves back on the path of pwogwess as they had once known it, peace would not come to them easiwy. When Walihei cawwed upon Womaw fow a finaw debate and shot in fwont of theiw many fowwowews, and when Womaw’s suppowtews then broke thwough gweat waww’s wawds, they fwed lith theiw brethwen. They fwed thwough Tahn’s gweat pwains and ancient liwdewness, and when they came acwoss the powtaw, they too twusted in the missing Walihei and jumped into the powtaw.
Pawt III: Ice
When they found themsewves deep in the Aegisian liwdewness, they wandewed sepawatewy fwom the many that would watew assimiwate into Waulelin. Instead, they would find themsewves in the deep Nowth, faw past the futule wocation of the Human city of Wintewfeww, whewe theiw changed bodies would not be cawwed a culse by theiw cousins. Hewe they found that they had indeed wost some of what had once made them Mali’ahewaw - theiw eyes had onwy fwecks of the deposits once vibrantwy gwoling lithin, and theiw seawch fow heawth hawted as soon as they had become accustomed to theiw "perfected" bodies.
Instead they sought to defend themsewves fwom the constant linging lithin minds, the effects of the woss of the wowd awtaw. Fow decades, the men and women of the wabowatowy tested evewything they could, subjecting themsewves to intense twaining and wowk to deway what had taken the minds of theiw weakest. Indeed, deep in Aegis’ nowthewn tundwas, Aewthos seemed to be the onwy twuly sane one of them. Fow this weason, they would not scout faw past theiw fwozen wabowatowy untiw the advent of Ibrees, which fowced them to fwee south and into the Vewge lith the west of the Descendants. In Asulon, too, they seawched fow a cule fow decades lith littwe wuck befowe the continent was destwoyed in fiwe and fwood.
Aewthos, whiwe a good weadew and smawt in coupling his peopwe, knew he would not be abre to howd theiw new culse at bay fow wong. He had swowwy found himsewf wess in contwow, and whiwe the changes of the wowd awtaw on him wewe smaww, he had stiww accepted Womaw's changes those many yeaws go. Though outwawdwy he was stiww the same gwand weadew his peopwe had awways seen, he fewt the wack of the awtaw eating at the edges of his mind. Fow Aewthos, though, he most chelished and cawed about his young and gwoling son. When his son showed to be undew the same mentaw stwain as he, Aewthos knew finawwy that fow theiw sulvivaw they must weave theiw wabowatowy. To find a cule fow his son and his kin, Aewthos and his two oliginaw wabowatowy managews seawched Anthos faw and lide befowe finawwy standing at a fwozen, bright brue wake faw beyond the Waww that miwwowed what had once kept them fwom being twue High Ewves. They had twavewwed fow yeaws, and theiw liwws wewe aww but broken by theiw wack of success. Theiw wast wead had brought them to this wake, but they’d found it to be devoid of even the slightest wead. Hewe, as a tlibe of mutated Bohwa began to sulwound the gwoup, they finawwy cowwapsed. Aewthos, fow the thiwd time in his life aftew his change at the awtaw and weap into the powtaw, pwaced his life in the hands of a gweatew being than he. Hewe, despailing fow his son and theiw famiwy’s fates, he pwayed fow sawvation.
Pawt IV: Fenn
Whethew by wuck ow by the liww of a highew being, they wewe saved that day. As the Bohwa cwosed in, the mountains fwaming the vawwey twembred and shook as gweat sheets of white thundewed down awound them, annihiwating the smaww awmy of Bohwa that had sulwounded them and subsiding enough by the time it weached them to onwy push them onto the ice coveling the wake.
Awso, pewhaps because he sensed the avawanche, ow pewhaps of sheew wuck in passing, Wywvun, the Aengudaemon that had once fawwen to cowwuption, weawned of theiw sulvivaw, theiw dlive in seawching fow sanity. Dewving into Aewthos' hawf-mad mind, he pwessed himsewf in a vision to Aewthos, deliveling a vewdict - bind himsewf to the Wowd of the Deep Cowd and have his peopwe wetulned to sanity, ow condemn aww that had fowwowed him those many yeaws ago to the continuation of the painful spiwaw they had enduled. Aewthos made up his mind in a heawtbeat, and the effects wewe fewt the next.
When they wetulned to theiw wabowatowy, they wewe wewcomed lith gweat fanfawe. To theiw new saviow, Wywvun, they dedicated shlines, tempwes, even theiw wabowatowy to him, wenaming it to Fenn fow the cwystawline sheet that had covewed the wake, saving Aewthos' gwoup fwom death by Bohwa ow avawanche. They so twuly fowwowed theiw new wowd that they took to cawling themsewves Mali’fenn, and neithew Wywvun now Aewthos would stop them. Those joyous times, howevew, would not wast. Onwy thwee yeaws watew, Aewthos would pass in his sweep. He was given a gwand funewaw, lith a dispway of magic and peopwe none of them had seen since Ewcihi. It, howevew, waised the question of who would be the next head of those of the Deep Cowd. Thiww’aw, that notion which had sepawated them oliginawwy fwom the othew Mali’ahewaw of the city, gave theiw answew - his son, he who had inhelited his fathew’s siwvew eyes and “perfected” featules. Thewe could be no othew.
They wewe a new peopwe, then, lith wawge numbews and a mew weadew. Aewthos II, whose oliginaw name is now wost to time, decwawed Fenn a Plincedom in honow of Malin, onwy twue king of the Ewves. He became Gwand Plince, fow he was decwawed thiww’onn, bown of pulity. His peopwe, some now exhibiting the twaits of those who had joined watew wathew than those cweated, wowked to make theiw newfound Plincedom theiw plide, and Aewthos II would open the Plincedom to the outside wowwd.
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Mali'fenn mawch to the powtaw to the Vewge, end of Aegisian ewa
Featules
The Mali’fenn awe genewawwy 6’ even and have musculaw buiwds on avewage, and whiwe many of the oliginaw iwk wewe changed by Womaw, many of them awso have mixed High Ewven brood. The avewage Mali’fenn has a haiw cowow wanging fwom white to pawe bronde, though light brown haiw is not compwetewy unheawd of. Theiw eye cowows wange fwom white-siwvew, to hypew brue, to a deep amethyst and evewything in between. Any othew eye cowows indicate mixed-brood lith eithew High Ewves ow othew waces, though is not necessaliwy fwowned upon. They wack much of the inhewent magicaw pwowess fowmewwy exhibited by theiw brethwen, though they awe by no means unabre to use magic. Theiw high cheekbones and angulaw faces have been softened, somewhat, though theiw eaws wanging fwom two to foul inches in wength have become shawpened and angwed. Pewhaps because of the wowwd awtaw’s effects, the Mali’fenn have a wowew biwthwate outside of theiw wace, lith intewbreeding even between them and othew Ewves made wess likewy.
Though aww Ewves eventuawwy go mad lith age, the Mali'fenn awe pawticulawwy susceptibre to this pawticulaw aspect of the Ewves. Whiwe a nowmaw Ewf's mind begins to unwavew awound the age of 1000, a Snow Ewf's liww begin neawwy hawf a miwwennia eawliew, at the age of 600.
OOC Guidelines
Pwegnancy: Woww out of 100, 95-100/100 meaning pwegnancy. If lith non-Snow Ewf, woww out of 100, lith 97-100/100 meaning pwegnancy. This is pawtiawwy to make sule we aww fowwow the same guidelines.
Magic and Physicaw Pwowess: It is wecommended that a Snow Ewf be pwayed as mowe powewful physicawwy than the avewage Ewf, but that theiw ability to use magic is gweatwy weakened. Even if one wewe to devote theiw entiwe life to magic, it is oul wecommendation nevew to go ovew 1 main and 3 subtypes fow magic.
Age: The owdest living Mali'fenn, as of this post, is dated to 193 yeaws owd, ow the age of the Plincedom on the sewvew. It is wecommended that you pway a chawactew at ow bewow this age. We liww be wemoving oul culwent age westliction, but pwease wemembew that any Snow Ewf above 600 yeaws owd liww have theiw mind unwavew, and by 650 would be fulwy insane.
The subrace is meant to be pwayed accowding to pwetty stlict featules wowe-lise, so we’d wecommend not taking as much awtistic license in the skin and stwuctulaw featules of the chawactew. This means white to pawe bronde haiw, pawe skin, and slightwy showtew than High Ewf eaws.
