Wood Elf

The first “third generation” Elven race to develop. Wood Elves, like most of their third-gen cousins, have lost the bluish and greyish skin tones present in the High and Moon Elves, instead having a melanin-pigmented skin tone like Humans. Wood Elves are darkly colored, ranging from a tanned skin tone to dark brown. They (along with their descendants the Shadow Elves) are the most muscular of modern Elves, though still more gracile than Humans. The photophores in their eyes, and all other third-gen Elves for that matter, are less bright than in the second-gen Elves, causing their pupils to be easily visible, but still giving them mild darkvision. Their eyes can be green, brown, red, or blue. Wood Elves are descended from the “Black Elf” caste of the stratified Beyloq Mahndir Commonwealth society. It is unknown why melanin became more prevalent in the lower classes and less prevalent among the “White Elves”, but it happened. Tired of their treatment, the Black Elves rebelled against the White Elves, learning to live in the wood from the Moon Elves of the Caryymonac Expanse. They succeeded in getting the Prime Elves of Yllsilyn to grant them a portion of the Alliance territory for their own, and declared themselves to be “Wood Elves”. The Wood Elven nation was called the Qyt-Qylaq Federation.