Template:High Elves in Froturn

Currently, 0 High Elves live in the Kingdom of Froturn, making up % of the kingdom's population.

The High Elven population of Froturn directly descended and evolved from the Proto-Elves who settled Froturn between 2000 and 1500 BEKE. Out of the various Proto-Elven clans, the Élaeli were the dominant clan who ended up dominating over the other clans and creating the Kingdom of Froturn. By roughly 1100 BEKE, the originally Proto-Elves have ceased to exist as a race, and have completely separated into the Humans, Wood Elves and High Elves - divergences have starter much earlier, and the three new races were recognized as early as 1300 BEKE, the evolution was finalized by 1100 BEKE.

As such, it comes to no surprise that the High Elves have been the dominant demographic in Froturn since the state has existed. Never having been a moment during Froturn's history when they were threatened to lose dominance over their kingdom. Traditionally, the High Elven population of Froturn was characterized by a mixture of low birthrates, very low infant mortality, high expected lifespan, a rather clannish extended family structure instead of the nuclear family - the typical High Elven clan or extended family is led by either the oldest member of the family (seniority), or the one deemed the best fit to lead or most prestigeous - a patriarch / pater familias or matriarch / mater familias. This leading figure traditionally holds autocratic authority over the whole extended family and approves or disapproves marriages, as well as the education, career and inheritance of family members. This kind of family structure coincided with the lack of expansion and large-scale migration from Froturn.

While Froturn's clannish extended family structure still stands, it has been gradually eroding for a long time. The Golden Age of Froturn between 700 BEKE and 100 BEKE saw urbanization where self-made men separated from their birth clans, founding their own lesser clans once married. The first two centuries AEKE saw economic stagnation and migration to Etrand - these migrants largerly severed their ties with their disapproving families. When many of them migrated back to Froturn during the late 3rd century AEKE, they brought with themselves the nuclear family, which, while still failed to take hold in Froturn, definitely served to chip away the authority of the patriarchs and matriarchs, which by the 7th century AEKE have gotten mostly reduced to a merely ceremonial level.

The High Elves of Froturn predominentaly practice Titanism, being one of the most religiously homogenous groups in Artograch - however, during the 6th and 7th century, there was a spike in the interest of the Cult of Nature, with many converts to that religion. This trend got reversed after 818, when a regime-change saw the resurgence of the Church and clerical conservativism.