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Message: <blockquote data-quote="feydras" data-source="post: 1630609" data-attributes="member: 16038">The elves in the Iron Kingdoms by Privateer Press are fairly unique.  There are two distinct races of elves and they don't get along.  The elves, like the setting as a whole, are well thought out and twisted a bit.  Both races are isolationist, but for different reasons.The Iosian elves live almost exclusively sequestered in their elven nation, Ios.  They are holding a secret... their gods have been dying for the past couple centuries and all are dead but one.  When that god dies the elven race will birth no more.  The cause of this blight is unknown but cause for much speculation and desperate search.  The remaining god Scryah (i think) is remaining silent about the cause.  Each divine spell cast by an elven cleric taxes their god slightly, hastening his demise.  This makes the race generally bitter, paranoid and often hopeless.  Many among them blame the upstart human nations due to historical reasons regarding humans' fairly recent acquistion of magic.  The few Iosian elves outside of Ios are generally diplomats or merchants surrounded by guards and often veiled.  The few others (PCs for example) are almost always outcasts.  Absolutely no non-elves are allowed in Ios, the elves desperately hide the secret that they are a dying race as they fear they would be attacked if their weaknesses were known.  Racial alignment if one had to guess would likely be NG, CG, N, or CN.  But they are not the friendly CG elves of vanilla D&D.The Nyss elves are a breed of elves that split off from the Iosians millenium ago and live sequestered deep in northern artic lands.  They are tribal and as isolationist as the Iosians.  They worship the elven god of winter, Nyss, who is unbeknownst to the Iosians, still alive but frozen to forestall his death.  The Nyss are honor driven but not 'good' or 'lawful' in any way.  The race is CN in general.  They count no wizards among them but have some sorcerors.  Champions among them wield katana like swords handed down within their family.Both Iosians and Nyss have a general dislike and major distrust of all non-elves and any elves of the other subrace.  They both have a marked arogance, but then wouldn't you if your culture existed for millenium and you watched the squabling of petty races around you barely surfaced from barbarism?  Half-elves are almost non-existent and generally despised by both humans and especially elves.  Humans don't romanticise the elves, they generally dislike, fear or consider them so rare as to be irrelevant.The Iron Kingdoms Campaign Guide is due out this week or next.  Can't wait to get my grubby paws on it as i have been waiting for over 2 yrs for it!- Feydras</blockquote>

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