Editing Banestorm (section)

=====Elves=====

The elves of Yrth are generally pretty standard fantasy elves: tree huggers, dying race, very graceful, beautiful, and intelligent. The Banestorm took a huge toll on their population, and many of them choose to live in forests and stay out of the politics of the newcomers. Despite this, many elves still have high opinions of many humans, though certainly not all of them.

Elves' opinions of the other major races are more mixed. They have a strained relationship with dwarves, due to the dwarves being stubborn grudge-holders who blame the entirety of the elves for the Banestorm. As for orcs, there are very, ''very'' few elves willing to see them as anything but monsters. 

The elves don't reproduce very fast, and the banestorm has left them in a state of a constant downward spiral. Any children they get are thus celebrated and cherished.
* Half Elves
They also cherish the children they have with humans. Half elves have longer life spans than humans but also have shorter lifespans than elves. They are welcome in all elf villages and all but the most intolerant human settlements. 
* Sea Elves
Sea elves live underwater, and rarely bother with the surface world. The Banestorm left them devastated as it is, and most of them have only bronze age technology at best, lagging behind many surface dwellers. They still get along with other elves besides dark elves though.
* Dark Elves
Dark Elves aren't drow in this setting. They're not even a real subrace of elves, but rather a separate faction that lives in the forbidden Blackwoods. The dark elves were the creators of the Banestorm, or the descendants of those elves. They are still extremely bitter over the total failure that was their attempt to destroy the orcs, and they have turned their bitterness towards all other races on Yrth. [[/pol/|The dark elves believe that all other races are disgusting, and should be eradicated.]] They reserve special hatred for Orcs, but also have just as much hatred for half-elves, since they find that [[/pol/|interracial relations with humans are disgusting.]]