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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 1806289" data-attributes="member: 172">Do you have subraces of elves?I use all the ones in the MM, minus the wild elf, plus I split the high elves into two subraces, with different racial options. Two new subraces: farisae or "planes" elves and vanir or "frost" elves. And the drey subrace of drow (from Plot & Poison)I also use the elemental elves from Green Ronin's Bow & Blade. They have no established kingdoms. They are something of a lost race and a few PCs that have shown up have been explained away as planar refugees. One of these days I am going to have to figure out what they are/do.(Side note: one perverse theory I have been working from is that elves were once more powerful. Perhaps they were once Leshay even. Now they have faded from that long ago glory. However, I was figuring that the Bow & Blade elves still had a larger fragment of that former glory and power, and thus the +3 LA. But if LA is a measure of closeness to elven heritage, that might imply that the drow elves were precursors or otherwise higher in the chain that LA +0 elves were...)What kind of society do they have?Pretty classic. Grey are aloof. Sun elves (high elves) are somewhat paternal and manipulative. Sea Elf (high elves, not aquatic elves) are gregarious. Wood elves are somewhat frivolous. I also have a splinter of the Grey elves, vale elves, that only has a few fleeting members left and are practiced at psionics (racial favored class is Psion instead of Wizard, otherwise uses grey elf stats.)My only major departure from the classical image of elves is that they are NOT a dying race. They aren't what they once were, but they still remain, alongside humans and gnolls, one of the most vibrant races on the continent.I've not bothered to defind aquatic elf kingdoms, but they are there.Dark elves: I use MM 3.5 stats for Drow, but primarily use Plot & Poison for history and culture. I shed the FR deities aside from "the spider queen" in favor of the pantheon in P&P.What is their culture like?  What form of government do they have?High elves are largely renassaince level aristocracy/monarchy. Grey elves are led by a council of elders (though one of the sun elf nations uses a model like this.) Ever since I got quint elf, I've felt free to make them a bit less chaotic than their MM descriptions imply.Plains elves are nomadic, and as a society somewhat pragmatic. Less benign than other elves, they have been known to engage in banditry.Vanir are also a hardened race. Not as hostile as the plains elves, but generally very xenophobic.What relationship do they have with the other races?Sun and Sea elves are slightly and very friendly with humans, respectively. Sun elves are the most actively engaged in hostilities with gnolls and orcs.Grey elves and vanir are aloof. Vanir are VERY untrusting of humans due to a now vanished empire under which they were treated very poorly, and their long racial memory won't let them forget.Wood elves are in a similar situation but more recent. An expanding human empire left them at odds with humans. But they had contact with a bit less hostile human society, so their views are probably a bit more balanced.</blockquote>

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