High Elves

High Elves are a race native (but not exactly indigenous) to the continent of Artograch, having evolved from the migrant Proto-Elves, making High Elves a sister-race to Wood Elves and Humans. Originally distinguished from their southern, forest-dwelling cousins only by language and religion, the High Elves were recognized as a truly separate folk when their process of nobilization was complete.

Just like their Wood Elven cousins - with whom they are nearly biologically identical (making the separation between the two races almost purely cultural and political) - High Elves have a relatively long lifespan, ageing roughly at tenth of the speed of humans after the age of eighteen, meaning that a 100 year old High Elf is biologically equivalent of a 24 year-old Human, a 200 years old Elf is essentially 24 years old, and so on. This gives High Elves an edge at accumulating experiences and studies, but also makes them inherently conservative (if not reactionary), dogmatic and traditionalist, often even fundamentalist.

High Elves have a very group-oriented culture, where exogamous clans or extended families are the norm, and the smaller nuclear family is largerly a rarer anomaly. Conformity is highly expected, as is cleanliness. While the strength of brotherhood is valued above all else, outside the realm of politics, there is little tolerance for nonconformity. High Elven cities are deemed surreal in the sense that they both manage to be extremely orderly and well-managed, yet artistic at the same time. High Elves are often touted as the most artistic race of present-day Artograch, having restored a sense of civilization and artistic vision to Artograch that it has been lacking since the fall of the Ancient Lizardman Empire.

As an added bonus, High Elven women are deemed the most beautiful on Artograch, their fame echoing beyond the continent of Artograch, even to the Orient. The average adult High Elf is about 190 centimetres (76 inches or 6.2 feet) tall, regardless of gender (albeit men to tend to be slightly taller on average).

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