Svartalfar Workers not Tree-friendly? Aww.

[Sureshot]

well worth the trip to valinor then

 

[SwordofStriker]

I hadn't even considered Tolkien's elves.

 

[Kael]

The thing is, Kael has mentioned that a lot of the ideas for FfH came from his days of playing Dungeons and Dragons. That being said, if you're familiar with the dark elves of Dungeons and Dragons, you'd know that they are definitely not like their tree hugging kinfolk. Certainly not everyone will be aware of this. Just as an FYI, the dark elves that I'm assuming these were modeled from typically live underground like the dwarves and gnomes, so the elvish promotion wouldn't really fit for them even though they are in fact elves, just not elves of the forests.

The greatest inspiration for the elves of Erebus are the seelie and unseelie courts of celtic/irish mythology. In that mythology the Unseelie are capriscious faeries that play tricks on humans, often mean spirited but not lethal. The Seelie court are more benevolent faeries, passive and beautiful.

But both sides are equally elven, two sides of the same coin. That is how I imagine the elves during the Age of Magic. Trading rulership of the elven nation between the two courts for 6 months each year. But then their god died, they entered into a brutal civil war, and the Age of Ice killed the weakest on both sides.

They may have once been gentle faeries, but they are war scarred and hardened now. In their soul the Ljosalfar, the children of the Summer court, pine for lives of beauty and harmony. The Svartalfar, the children of the Winter court, miss their nights spent dancing under the moonlight. But those days are past now. Arendel may be the last link to the elves as they were, but Thessa and Amelachier are the elves as they are now.

 

[Bad Player]

The 2nd and 3rd paragraphs should go into the official lore!

 

[brainpan]

they're more like tolkiens dark elves, not drow from what ive seen. tolkiens dark elves lived in dark forests and sometimes in caverns. the svartalfar aren't dark skinned, they're pale.

It seems you've walked me through this before. I'm not sure how I kept getting hung up on the Drow anyway. It was probably just the name Viconia throwing me off. In any case, it doesn't seem likely the Drow would want to set up shop on the surface.

I think this concept has finally sunk in this time.

 

[Sureshot]

faeryl viconia's picture used to be a drow and both the names faeryl and viconia are the names from drow in The Spider Queen series so its bound to happen heh

but just go by faeryl's current picture and the units (currently, their swordsmen, archers, and horse archers all have white skin and black hair).

 

[Caradoc]

I don't know what others may think, but to me Faeryl is TOTALLY HOT! Beautiful, powerful, and wicked -- an irresistible combination.

 

[vorshlumpf]

The 2nd and 3rd paragraphs should go into the official lore!

I second this. I don't know if I missed something, but reading the stories for Arendel and Faeryl made me think they were still switching rulership yearly.

I'm glad that I found Kael's tidbit on this thread.

 

[Copper Golem]

And what about adding Elven and Orcish warriors and scouts to the tribe's in the game? I think It would be to difficult to code?

 

[zxcvbnm]

Arendel and Faeryl switched rulership every spring and autumn till the age of ice.
I don't know anything about coding but as tribes already have all sorts of stuff it can't be too difficult for a skilled coder to add racial units.