High Elf

The first variety of Elf to develop melanin, though only in small amounts. Their main skin tone ranges from pale to caucasian skin tone, with or without a blue or grey tinge, but they can also be a light bluish color. Like their brothers the Moon Elves, they have glowing eyes with unusually bright photophores. Theirs can be various blues, gold, silver, green, or purple. They are very thin and gracile, and are the only Elven race in which facial hair is completely non-existent (in most Elves, it’s just very rare). Originally, they were called “Sun Elves” (in contrast to the Moon Elves) and were given the sparsely wooded eastern parts of the Yllsilyn Kingdom when it was divided into thirds in 739 TS, when the Moon and Sun Elves were officially recognized as separate races. This nation, called the Beyloq Mahndir Commonwealth, developed a highly stratified secular society based around three distinct castes, each named for a color on the greyscale spectrum: White Elves, Grey Elves, and Black Elves (The caste names did not reflect skin colors). The three castes eventually split into separate races: the lower-class Black Elves become the Wood Elves and the middle-class Grey Elves became a separate race of the same name. The elitist, upper-class White Elves went on to become what we now know as High Elves. A variety of High Elves called Frost Elves, not quite distinct enough to be considered a separate race, live in the colder, northern regions of Katar-Kunosht, Kevliah, and Caslasta. They are a little larger than the “standard” High Elves, with a greater occurrence of blue-tinged skin. They are actually more common than the “standard” variety today, though more geographically limited.