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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Abisashi" data-source="post: 2070889" data-attributes="member: 15334">Contribution #4Post faster people, the wait is killing me!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> My contribution will be a racial summary; the material here is mostly repeated, but I make some inferences and minor additions that I'll count as a contribution. I'm trying to help make the compilation more readable. If I missed something, point it out and I'll edit it in.ElvesElves in Eyros are regarded as second-class citizens. Although not as hated as the dwarves, stories of the ancient oppression by the elves are told to all the children in the empire. Elves have a very difficult time rising in station. The exception to this is in the lands of house Kiron, where elves are often taken as consorts by the Pillar family and all the pillar masks have been freed.Many elves, especially those in the lands of Pillar Kiron, worship the sun or the positive energy plane.Some elves are masks, so called because there is always a noble* behind them. Masks are held in the mental state of a child, though the binding's clever construction still allows them to be powerful wizards. There are several types of binding oaths, which are sworn by elven children who will become masks when they are but ten years old**. Most of the oaths sworn are one of the following:Pillar Oath - the elven child swears to obey the members of the house, and when it does not contradict this, to protect them with his or her life. The actual oath is slightly more complicated. Each house is allowed 30 pillar masks; exceeding this is seen as an attempt to sieze control over the empire.Imperial Oaths - this oath is similar to the House Oath, except that the child swears to serve whoever is emperor and the imperial family. There are several imperial oaths, and which one is sworn depends on what the child's intended job is. At any time, there are 149 imperial masks (Alivia is incorectly counted as an imperial mask; see below.)Guardian Oath - elven children who swear this oath do not serve any of the houses or the emperor, but instead protect the empire from external harm. Although they are in the care of the houses, tampering with them is strictly forbidden. Guardian masks are rarely created anymore, but were instrumental in the preservation of the empire during the War of the Crumbled Pillar. There are abut 40 of them left.Primal Oath - The wording of this oath is long lost, and only three masks are bound by it; Alivia, Jal-qwuin, and Tellas. Alivia is believed to be under an imperial oath, Jal-qwuin's oath is unknown, and Tellas herself is unknown; the emperor believes her to be sworn under the imperial oath. Aside from the primal masks themselves, only Thanatos knows of the existance of the primal oath, though Kalis Ny'Dal-Malarn proposed its existance in the footnote of a rather technical paper.There are other oaths as well.*I believe we no longer are limiting masks to just half-orcs, though that appears to have been the intent in the original post.**Being longer lived, I'm assuming that a ten-year-old elf is around 5-8 in the human or orc mantal range.</blockquote>

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