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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DammitVictor" data-source="post: 9850276" data-attributes="member: 6750908">Ironically, elves in my settings-- when I include elves in my settings-- aren't even humanoid, much less human. In Cosmic Rangers, the "Feywild" and the "Far Realms" are... both a spectrum and a matter of perspective... and the alufey are actually quite a lot closer to the aberration end of the spectrum than most humans realize.The Tolkien influence that I wear on my sleeve is that the oroghai are former elves (or the descendants of former elves) who were captured and twisted by black magic into enemies of elvenkind. The twist is that they're victims of a secret civil war in elven society; when elves discovered that they can't actually participate in religion the way mortals understand it, the majority accepted it and a minority became obsessed with extreme genetic alteration, neurosurgery, and black magic to create artificial souls that can attach to their aberration physiology. Orcs are living weapons created by the "light elves" to eradicate and humiliate the "dark elves".So the draugh elves are technically capable of becoming clerics, but the Celestials that invest priests with holy power want nothing to do with them; all of them are warlocks. Ironically, orcs after the first generation share the elves' attraction to the Holy Church, count as mortal humanoids, and their souls are tainted by what was done to them-- but not by their own sins. There are still more orcish warlocks than clerics, but orcs are the third-most common species in the priesthood of the (humanocentric) Holy Church, after humans and lizardfolk.</blockquote>

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