Wood Elves

Wood 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 High Elves and Humans.

Just like their High Elven cousins - with whom they are nearly biologically identical (making the separation between the two races almost purely cultural and political) - Wood 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 Wood Elf is biologically equivalent of a 24 year-old Human, a 200 years old Elf is essentially 24 years old, and so on. However, unlike their High Elven cousins, Wood Elves aren't known for being particularly dogmatic, conservative, or otherwise resistful of change: they tend to make use of their long lifespan by taking it easy, working lightly, reserving time for leisure and spiritual activites to promote being at peace with self - they devote a lot more time to meditation and the obligatory tea-drinking ceremony than any other race.

While not as clannish as their northern neighbours, the Wood Elves still retain some tribal customs rather than going with the nuclear family model: they still have clans or extended families rather than nuclear families, but the patriarch or matriarch of each clan has very little authority. For example, arranged marriages are unheard of, and when a member of a clan seeks to travel abroad to seek their fortune or seek a different profession that the one the family has traditionally practiced, there is no strong patriarchial or matriarchial authority preventing them from doing so.

As an added bonus, Wood Elven women and men are well-known for being rivals to their High Elven counterparts in regards to beauty. The average adult Wood 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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