Post by Jacob on Jul 5, 2009 0:02:00 GMT -5
Race Name: Shadrakhai Vael or Fierce Elves
Pronounced: Shah-drah-kai Vay-el
Commonly Known As: Fierce Shadows, Drow-Kin, Silver-Taints, Night-Kin, Grey, (Shadow,) Elves.
Lifespan: Immortal. (Matures around 27 years of age.)
Average Height:
7'4-7'6 Female.
7'4-7'8, Male.
Average Weight:
Female: 88km/195lb.
Male: 100km/220lb.
Appearance:
Shared: The Fierce Elven race have very distinct features. Their skin is normally a very pale, almost albino pigmented tone, pointed ears of shorter length for an elf. Some highly rare exceptions to this are when the Drow genes become dominant and they gain a black or dark blue skin pigment. Their hair is normally on the grey-scale, with the occasional off-color, just as red or brown. Their eyes normally stay within three different scales: Those being red, yellow, and grey, with the rare occasion of blue or green eyes. One specific feature they have that sets them apart from other Elves is their elongated fangs, which give them a very vampiric look. However, the largest feature of all is that under stress of strong emotion, Fierce Elves have triggered patterns that flow along their bodies that become luminescent, along with the eyes, each pattern and color unique to the Elf. The rarest trait a Fierce Elf gains is when he or she are born with chiroptera, (bat,) wings.
Males: Males tend to be much more muscular, but still thin toned rather than bulk. Lanky arms and legs with compact muscle and agile bodies. Their faces are normally longer, and more gaunt and hair is more commonly on the lighter colored sides of the scale. Their fangs tend to be a little bigger, thickness-wise, but all around the same length, and occasionally double-row. They're normally the stronger of the two genders, and are a lot more emotionally susceptible. Male skin tends to be a little rough and doesn't heal quick, tending to scar.
Females: The females are normally very slender and elegant looking, maintaining toned, but not cut muscle structure. Their fangs tend to be more slender but much sharper. Their bodies are made for flexibility and great dexterity, allowing them to be fast and efficient while moving. They're generally the faster of the two genders, and can normally maintain themselves better, keeping composed under much harsher circumstances. They also more often than not have a lot softer skin, but heal much quicker and generally don't scar.
Information:
Diet: Fierce Elves normally eat anything they have to in order to survive, however, eating another Fierce Elf or other humanoids is a practice looked down on upon throughout the race. Of course though, as with humans, some of the more wicked Elves practice it ritualistically. Generally however, these elves prefer meat to any alternatives, and are very adept hunters, able to move as fast as the stag they intend to bring down, and much more agile. When they do practice agriculture, they more often than not focus on fruits and sweeter vegetables.
Habitat: Fierce Elves prefer the largest forests they can find, making home and hearth on or inside of large trees. If not in an area where trees are plentiful, Fierce Elves will normally find the odd and solitary areas to avoid contact with people, picking what looks insignificant in order to avoid detection. However, when come together in large groups, Fierce Elves like to decorate their homes and villages with many different and beautiful crafts, normally ones made to be seen at night, such as lanterns and other such light giving things.
Culture: Fierce Elves, (as in their names,) tend to be a very crude race. Their fierce natures make them very aggressive towards any outsiders to their kin and they don't trust, often killing mercilessly if they see fit. This makes them hard to become close to, and allow few chance to actually observe their kind. However, even with their brutal nature, Fierce Elves are great crafters, and study in many forms of art. Writing, music, working of materials, and many other things are what the Fierce Elves hold most closely to their heart. They've mastered the art of crafting silver and fusing metals, creating strong, yet versatile armor, and beautiful jewelry. With their spiritualistic nature, Fierce Elves have a natural attunement with the land around them, and can sense spiritual differences within it, especially in certain stones and other Elves. However, with their seclusion from other races, they are somewhat faulty at reading the spiritual states of anyone outside their own kin. They make large tree homes, decorating them with many fine crafts of wood, stone and metal, as well as enchanted items, making lights of objects that have no material importance. They try to find a use for everything, and if they have the time, let not one thing go to waste. They have also honed their abilities at creating weaponry, learning how to shape swords and daggers in shapes few would otherwise think of creating.
Offspring: Fierce Elves normally birth one child per conception, the gestation period of is about 10 months. However, like humans, they do occasionally birth more than one child.
Mating: Fierce Elves find a mate the same way as a human, by following their instinctual need for a companion and selecting one based on an emotional connection. When paired, Fierce Elves preform a similar ritual to marriage, having at least four witnesses and forsaking their most cherished possession to the one they are pairing with, after which, the male presents a hand crafted necklace made of silver with a precious gem that specifically reacts in a glowing fashion when near an Elf it connects with. Each stone is dependent on the Elf. Once the ritual is preformed, the two are paired for life, even after one of them have died, believing that once passed on, there is another life they will beyond their first where they will meet again.
This Race Can Breed With: Other Fierce Elves, Drow Elves, few other Elves.
This Race May Breed With: Humans and Humanoids, but tends to avoid doing that unless under special circumstances.
Abilities: Fierce Elves have keen hearing, being able to pick up the softest footfall within the immediate area. They also have the ability to pick up light from a farther range, giving them the ability to see things in much greater detail and from much farther away. Their agile bodies make them masters at scaling structures, being it natural or artificial, as well as leap a good distance with ease. Their acrobatic abilities are well created for doing tricks and maneuvering obstacles with amazing dexterity. They tend to not be too strong, but know how to use their bodies enough to not require so much strength as technique when attempting to achieve something that'd on average need such a factor.
Racial Traits: Their race has learned many tricks to life, the ability to bend light, giving them the ability to slightly see around corners without having to lean around them. They have also learned this trick for their own bodies, letting them slightly bend the light around themselves, to give them small portion of camouflage. Their natural attunement with spirits allows them to sense creatures, humans and other "living" things in the vicinity. Their vampiric side gives them a natural blood rage, making their bodies pulse and giving them a natural high, increasing their strength, speed and agility, but greatly decreasing their ability to think or realize what their doing, often resulting in killing an innocent. This occurs when they have been put under some intense emotional stress, and they need a way to release it. Depending on how long it's been sealed, and how great the "pressure" has become, the worse the outburst will be. When in this state, they don't feel pain, and often shrug off even vital injuries, but become extremely weak once the state ends, normally leaving them half dead from having entered the state in the first place, often meaning death if they've received any heavy damage during it. Most Fierce Elves deal with it by some sort of meditation based practice, letting them relieve the stress on their mind and body. On the rare occasion a Fierce Elf is born with wings, they are fully functional, and normally each wing a little bigger then the Elf itself. However, use isn't gained until after the Elf has hit its early teens.
Race Usage: Normal Fierce Elves are available to all. Drow pigmented Fierce Elves and Winged Fierce Elves are restricted. Please ask me if they are open before making one and let me review the character personally.
Credit: This is a race I have personally designed. Please don't attempt to recreate or steal it.
Pronounced: Shah-drah-kai Vay-el
Commonly Known As: Fierce Shadows, Drow-Kin, Silver-Taints, Night-Kin, Grey, (Shadow,) Elves.
Lifespan: Immortal. (Matures around 27 years of age.)
Average Height:
7'4-7'6 Female.
7'4-7'8, Male.
Average Weight:
Female: 88km/195lb.
Male: 100km/220lb.
Appearance:
Shared: The Fierce Elven race have very distinct features. Their skin is normally a very pale, almost albino pigmented tone, pointed ears of shorter length for an elf. Some highly rare exceptions to this are when the Drow genes become dominant and they gain a black or dark blue skin pigment. Their hair is normally on the grey-scale, with the occasional off-color, just as red or brown. Their eyes normally stay within three different scales: Those being red, yellow, and grey, with the rare occasion of blue or green eyes. One specific feature they have that sets them apart from other Elves is their elongated fangs, which give them a very vampiric look. However, the largest feature of all is that under stress of strong emotion, Fierce Elves have triggered patterns that flow along their bodies that become luminescent, along with the eyes, each pattern and color unique to the Elf. The rarest trait a Fierce Elf gains is when he or she are born with chiroptera, (bat,) wings.
Males: Males tend to be much more muscular, but still thin toned rather than bulk. Lanky arms and legs with compact muscle and agile bodies. Their faces are normally longer, and more gaunt and hair is more commonly on the lighter colored sides of the scale. Their fangs tend to be a little bigger, thickness-wise, but all around the same length, and occasionally double-row. They're normally the stronger of the two genders, and are a lot more emotionally susceptible. Male skin tends to be a little rough and doesn't heal quick, tending to scar.
Females: The females are normally very slender and elegant looking, maintaining toned, but not cut muscle structure. Their fangs tend to be more slender but much sharper. Their bodies are made for flexibility and great dexterity, allowing them to be fast and efficient while moving. They're generally the faster of the two genders, and can normally maintain themselves better, keeping composed under much harsher circumstances. They also more often than not have a lot softer skin, but heal much quicker and generally don't scar.
Information:
Diet: Fierce Elves normally eat anything they have to in order to survive, however, eating another Fierce Elf or other humanoids is a practice looked down on upon throughout the race. Of course though, as with humans, some of the more wicked Elves practice it ritualistically. Generally however, these elves prefer meat to any alternatives, and are very adept hunters, able to move as fast as the stag they intend to bring down, and much more agile. When they do practice agriculture, they more often than not focus on fruits and sweeter vegetables.
Habitat: Fierce Elves prefer the largest forests they can find, making home and hearth on or inside of large trees. If not in an area where trees are plentiful, Fierce Elves will normally find the odd and solitary areas to avoid contact with people, picking what looks insignificant in order to avoid detection. However, when come together in large groups, Fierce Elves like to decorate their homes and villages with many different and beautiful crafts, normally ones made to be seen at night, such as lanterns and other such light giving things.
Culture: Fierce Elves, (as in their names,) tend to be a very crude race. Their fierce natures make them very aggressive towards any outsiders to their kin and they don't trust, often killing mercilessly if they see fit. This makes them hard to become close to, and allow few chance to actually observe their kind. However, even with their brutal nature, Fierce Elves are great crafters, and study in many forms of art. Writing, music, working of materials, and many other things are what the Fierce Elves hold most closely to their heart. They've mastered the art of crafting silver and fusing metals, creating strong, yet versatile armor, and beautiful jewelry. With their spiritualistic nature, Fierce Elves have a natural attunement with the land around them, and can sense spiritual differences within it, especially in certain stones and other Elves. However, with their seclusion from other races, they are somewhat faulty at reading the spiritual states of anyone outside their own kin. They make large tree homes, decorating them with many fine crafts of wood, stone and metal, as well as enchanted items, making lights of objects that have no material importance. They try to find a use for everything, and if they have the time, let not one thing go to waste. They have also honed their abilities at creating weaponry, learning how to shape swords and daggers in shapes few would otherwise think of creating.
Offspring: Fierce Elves normally birth one child per conception, the gestation period of is about 10 months. However, like humans, they do occasionally birth more than one child.
Mating: Fierce Elves find a mate the same way as a human, by following their instinctual need for a companion and selecting one based on an emotional connection. When paired, Fierce Elves preform a similar ritual to marriage, having at least four witnesses and forsaking their most cherished possession to the one they are pairing with, after which, the male presents a hand crafted necklace made of silver with a precious gem that specifically reacts in a glowing fashion when near an Elf it connects with. Each stone is dependent on the Elf. Once the ritual is preformed, the two are paired for life, even after one of them have died, believing that once passed on, there is another life they will beyond their first where they will meet again.
This Race Can Breed With: Other Fierce Elves, Drow Elves, few other Elves.
This Race May Breed With: Humans and Humanoids, but tends to avoid doing that unless under special circumstances.
Abilities: Fierce Elves have keen hearing, being able to pick up the softest footfall within the immediate area. They also have the ability to pick up light from a farther range, giving them the ability to see things in much greater detail and from much farther away. Their agile bodies make them masters at scaling structures, being it natural or artificial, as well as leap a good distance with ease. Their acrobatic abilities are well created for doing tricks and maneuvering obstacles with amazing dexterity. They tend to not be too strong, but know how to use their bodies enough to not require so much strength as technique when attempting to achieve something that'd on average need such a factor.
Racial Traits: Their race has learned many tricks to life, the ability to bend light, giving them the ability to slightly see around corners without having to lean around them. They have also learned this trick for their own bodies, letting them slightly bend the light around themselves, to give them small portion of camouflage. Their natural attunement with spirits allows them to sense creatures, humans and other "living" things in the vicinity. Their vampiric side gives them a natural blood rage, making their bodies pulse and giving them a natural high, increasing their strength, speed and agility, but greatly decreasing their ability to think or realize what their doing, often resulting in killing an innocent. This occurs when they have been put under some intense emotional stress, and they need a way to release it. Depending on how long it's been sealed, and how great the "pressure" has become, the worse the outburst will be. When in this state, they don't feel pain, and often shrug off even vital injuries, but become extremely weak once the state ends, normally leaving them half dead from having entered the state in the first place, often meaning death if they've received any heavy damage during it. Most Fierce Elves deal with it by some sort of meditation based practice, letting them relieve the stress on their mind and body. On the rare occasion a Fierce Elf is born with wings, they are fully functional, and normally each wing a little bigger then the Elf itself. However, use isn't gained until after the Elf has hit its early teens.
Race Usage: Normal Fierce Elves are available to all. Drow pigmented Fierce Elves and Winged Fierce Elves are restricted. Please ask me if they are open before making one and let me review the character personally.
Credit: This is a race I have personally designed. Please don't attempt to recreate or steal it.
