Hero name: Aduial
Hero description: A Moriquendi noble, slender and beautiful, with eyes like stars and hair that glistens as waterfalls. Scholar and wizard.
Faction name: VanimarFaction type: "Wizard" (As opposed to sorcerer)
Starting holding: Orchard
Starting staff: Wizard
Faction race: Moriquendi (
Tolkien dark elves, not
Gygax dark elves)
Elves were the first race created by the gods. We are tall, beautiful, magical, ageless and immortal. Then for reasons we never entirely understood, the gods created the inferior mortal races.
Humans. They must murder and feast upon the decaying corpses of animals to survive. And even then, only for a short time, falling prey to aging, death and disease in the blink of an eye. Aging? Even if they take care of themselves they fall apart and die anyway. Disease? Why did the gods breath life into such flimsy creatures? We never understood,
Unsurprisingly, after the inferior mortal races were brought to this world, things started to fall apart. For along with their physical frailties and mental deficiencies, so too did they naturally bring with them war, crime, and a host of other ills.
After a mere few hundreds years, the gods finally realized that yeah, this whole "mortal" thing was a dumb idea. So they came to us, the beautiful ones, and basically said, "hey, so the world is turning evil. We love you. Why don't you leave all this behind and come hang out with us instead?"
Most elves agreed, and fled to Valinor.
Some few instead said "Nahh, we'll stay here, thanks."
And thus, we became Moriquendi. The dark ones. Those who rejected the light and chose instead to remain here.
AffiliationsHumans are inferior creatures. We're simply better than they are. But because we
are better, we don't engage in petty treachery or war upon them as they do with each other.
We have basic respect for the vampires. Humans are frail and weak, but the vampires have risen above that. It sometimes amazes us that all humans don't eagerly embrace vampirism, but presumably even if they did the vampires wouldn't allow it because they need humans as prey animals. That's slightly uncomfortable for us. Yes, humans are frail and stupid, but animals are unintelligent, eat meat and die of age too. You don't "be better" than animals by murdering animals.
Noblesse Oblige. But while the vampires still cling to vestiges of their former mortal frailties in the sense of enjoying the hunt and the blood, they've also clearly risen above their origins. We acknowledge them for that.
We're kind of on the fence about the werewolves. One does not have contempt for an animal merely because it's unintelligent. It's
ok, because they're animals. Giving humans intelligence was clearly a mistake. The werewolves are trying to be what humans should always have been: animals. So, while we might disagree with their choice to return to their proper place rather than to seek to rise above it like the vampires have, we nevertheless understand it.
Dwarves? Better than humans.
Demons? Neutral. One does not anger at the wind when it blows in a contrary direction.