Category:Elf

Elves are conceived as a sub-race of beings similar in appearance to humans but fairer and wiser, with greater spiritual powers, keener senses, and a closer empathy with nature, but are also known to be serious and unfriendly towards other races.

In Karana, Elves are sorted into three main types: the Hytherlings, Shilverings and Phinnerings. The Hytherlings are considered to be the High Elves, and are the fairest and wisest among the Elf race. The Shilverings are second in line and are the rarest in number.

They are biologically immortal in the sense that they are not vulnerable to disease or the effects of old age (closer to the concept of indefinite lifespan than true immortality). Elves have survived throughout all the BH ages and onto the AH and EA age. However, in The Doriath Histories it has been noted that all Elves can be killed like humans and may alternately wither away from grief.

Almost all are blessed with superhuman abilities (keen senses such as sharper hearing and sight, even to the point of night vision, enhanced physical strength, resting the mind and travel simultaneously, foresight, some kind of telepathy, power to control nature to some extent, such as summoning floods, and the power to conjure visions of the past).