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==== [[Unseen Hands Will Illuminate Their Unchanged Minds]] ==== | ==== [[Unseen Hands Will Illuminate Their Unchanged Minds]] ==== | ||
The Unseen Hands Will Illuminate Their Unchanged Minds are a faction of high elf radicals. They believed to have fund [[Sky celestial|sky elf]] texts recounting their downfall by the hands of the [[Solar celestial|sun elves]], which twisted their views on their own society which worked in service of the sun elves. The sect hides in plain sight, slowly manipulating nobles and reshaping high elven society as they see fit. {{Cite web/ds december 2024/mm|90}} | The Unseen Hands Will Illuminate Their Unchanged Minds are a faction of high elf radicals. They believed to have fund [[Sky celestial|sky elf]] texts recounting their downfall by the hands of the [[Solar celestial|sun elves]], which twisted their views on their own society which worked in service of the sun elves. The sect hides in plain sight, slowly manipulating nobles and reshaping high elven society as they see fit. {{Cite web/ds december 2024/mm|90}} | ||
==== Common names ==== | |||
High elven names were poetic, an attempt to capture a fleeting, often contradictory, impulse or emotion. They sometimes contained references to the natural world. They were never meant to be taken literally and they were not an attempt to make a character fell heroic. {{Cite web/Ancestry Names}} | |||
'''Examples''': The Sun Reflected In A Lover's Tear, Every Flake Of Snow A Memory, Edges Of A Leaf Torn By The Wind, Echoes of Autumn Heat, A Heart That Will Not Yield The Stars, A Rain of Glass Over A Sea of Dreams, The Earth Cries The Skies Divide, The Last Star Fading With Morning, A Crown of Starlight on Winter Snow, The Anticipation of a Sigh Upon His Lips | |||
== References == | == References == | ||
Revision as of 23:43, 28 April 2025
Physiology
High elves had the natural ability glamor, like their elven brotheren. This allowed them to be preceived, by others, as interesting and engaging. Always appearing like themselves, but slightly different to each creature they met. [1]
Psychology
They were created by the true elves as librarians and heralds, they still remember the age before their creators retired to Arcadia, a better age, where all that mattered was art and beauty [1]. High elves believed knowledge was the pursuit from which all good things flow (live, power, legacy). [2]
After the celestials left, high elves started to turn more inward and distrusting of outsiders with each generation. [1]
High elves hoped to one day be able to join their creators and Val in Arcadia. [3]
Notable high elves
- Morning Dew On a Single Leaf Like a Tear from the Sun, Lord of Fallen Irranys [1]
- A Mist Coils Around Dying Embers [4]
Cultural groups
Vasloria
The dominant language spoken by high elves in Vasloria is Hyrallic, the language of diplomacy, more specifically, inter-species diplomacy. [5]
After their creators left for Arcadia, they mostly lived in amongst the fallen celestial sky cities continuing to collect lore and knowledge, worshiping art. [1]
Unseen Hands Will Illuminate Their Unchanged Minds
The Unseen Hands Will Illuminate Their Unchanged Minds are a faction of high elf radicals. They believed to have fund sky elf texts recounting their downfall by the hands of the sun elves, which twisted their views on their own society which worked in service of the sun elves. The sect hides in plain sight, slowly manipulating nobles and reshaping high elven society as they see fit. [2]
Common names
High elven names were poetic, an attempt to capture a fleeting, often contradictory, impulse or emotion. They sometimes contained references to the natural world. They were never meant to be taken literally and they were not an attempt to make a character fell heroic. [6]
Examples: The Sun Reflected In A Lover's Tear, Every Flake Of Snow A Memory, Edges Of A Leaf Torn By The Wind, Echoes of Autumn Heat, A Heart That Will Not Yield The Stars, A Rain of Glass Over A Sea of Dreams, The Earth Cries The Skies Divide, The Last Star Fading With Morning, A Crown of Starlight on Winter Snow, The Anticipation of a Sigh Upon His Lips
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Matthew Colville, et al. Draw Steel Rules, December 2024 Patreon Packet (PDF). (Patreon), pp. 25-27. Retrieved on 2024-12-21.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Matthew Colville, et al. Draw Steel Monsters Manuscript, December 2024 Patreon Packet (PDF). (Patreon), pp. 90. Retrieved on 2024-12-21.
- ↑ Matthew Colville, et al. Draw Steel Rules, December 2024 Patreon Packet (PDF). (Patreon), pp. 302. Retrieved on 2024-12-21.
- ↑ Matthew Colville, et al. Draw Steel Rules, December 2024 Patreon Packet (PDF). (Patreon), pp. 33. Retrieved on 2024-12-21.
- ↑ Matthew Colville, et al. Draw Steel Rules, December 2024 Patreon Packet (PDF). (Patreon), pp. 53. Retrieved on 2024-12-21.
- ↑ Matthew Colville Character Names by Ancestry (PDF). (Patreon). Retrieved on 2025-2-19.