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Message: <blockquote data-quote="smilinggm" data-source="post: 2174132" data-attributes="member: 2394">In Paradigm Concept's "Arcanis the World of Shattered Empires" AKA RPGA's Living Arcanis, The Elves of Arcanis are known as Elori.  The Elori are a still very much mechanically (in most ways generic D&D elves), however Tolkein they aint.  First off the Elori were born as a created slave warrior race.  They were created by the Great Serpant Empire of the Ssethregore.  They were formed by combining Orcs with Elemental Spirits, with the help of  a god like being.  Only about 100,000 or so were created.  When an Elori is killed (they are still basically imortal and cannot die from old age) their spirits are reborn into the next generation of Elori.  In this manner the only way that an Elori can have a child is for another Elori to die.  This maintains thier poplulation around 100,000 or so. As an elori ages he never stops growing.  Every thousand of years the Elori has a growth spirt and the oldest Elori are over 8ft tall.   The Elori served and fought for the Seth for ages.  During this time the Elori took part in a campaing of genisied and by their hands 12 races were wiped off the face of Arcanis.  As time went by they Seth Empire was in decline and the Elori grew tired of being slaves to the wicked Seth.  Whent the time was right the Elori Rebelled and broak away from the Seth.  After this the Elori swore to make pennance for thier past crimes.  All this happened before the arrivial of the Humans to Arcanis.  When the humans came the Elori met them and Greeted the humans with open arms.  The humans  and the human gods were chasing and hunting a Rouge diety. The Elori at first tried to help the humans and they joined the war against this rouge god.  The battles raged then at a crital point the human gods saw what they believed as thier only hope in defeating this rouge god tricked the Elori gods into a trap.  The human gods trapped the Elori gods and consumed them to gain thier power.  At the same time the Human gods ordered their human troups to fall upon the Elori and attack them.  This tactic worked for the human gods, the rouge god was defeated and the battle was over.  The elori were not destroyed but were severly weekend.  The Elori then went into hiding.  All but one of the Elori gods had been destroyed (it was hiding during this time) and the Elori Swore to take thier revenge against the humans and their gods when the time was right.  That was thousands of years ago.  Human empires have risen and fallen.  The elori were all but forgtton.  Now the First elori have come out of thier hiding places and have started to explore the world again.  Men having short memories have greeted the elori back into their society.  The human gods have been mostly slient for ages only communicating to the humans on special occations.  Their presence is still felt tho thru their clerics.  So the human gods have not reminded the humans of their history with the Elori.   The Elori that have emerged from their hiding places are young less than 100 years old.  The Elori elders for the most part have stayed hidden in thier places of safty.  The young elori have only flashes of memory of their past and most only know that they are scouts and that for the most part the humans are not to be trusted.  The Elori clerics do not speak of their god, and go to great pains to hide their god from the humans.  As the Elori were created from the blending of Orcs and Elementals they carry some of their elemental traits with them.  This has created 5 sub sets of elori (Basically you have to chose of the 5 sub races to play,  there are no generic Elori.  Their are Earth,Fire,Wind Water and Life Elori.  Each has special abilites tied to their elemental origins.  This is just a basic overview of the Elori.  There are several books that go into more detail.  Strting with thier basic history in PCI's Codex Arcanis, then in Eldest Sons,  More of thier history has been detailed in the Ssethregore handbook, and there are Elori only feats both in Codex Arcanis and in the Player's Guid to Arcanis.If you cannot tell from this Arcanis is very richly detailed and it is not your baisic Setting.  ENJOY!!!</blockquote>

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