Chords of Thrir

Basics Appearances Common Culture History

Lysa-Alfar - Dawn Ljós-Alfar - Morning Hvárrljós-Alfar - Twilight Kveld-Alfar - Dusk Dökk-Alfar - Night Rökkr-Alfar - Shadow

Alfar Basics

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Known For:

Comfortable in the elements. Elegance enhances everything they do, with knowledge that the end sleep is never their last.

Appearance

General:

Alfar are a greatly diverse race, varying in skin tone, hair and eye colouration. All Alfar have no to minimal facial hair, and elongated pointed ears. The older the person, the longer the ear. They also tend to be graceful.

Minimum Makeup Requirement:

Below is a description of what is expected when representing certain variations of the Alfar. The minimum requirement would be medium/long ear tips.

Heritages:

• Lysa - are the more tribal clan of the Alfar, and their style reflects that.
• The majority of their clothes should reflect leaves, bark, sticks, terrain they may be amongst. They use layers to make their clothing look like leaves, trees and bramble. Accented by animals parts, antlers, feathers, fur.
• Influenced the northern human clans with their half braided hair.
• Ljós - have a radiance to them; in some cases, there has been a mistaken identity with the Lares because of this. The Ljós are less concerned with blending into the forests like their brethren, except when using specific battle tactics.
• Golds and coppers are traditionally worn as accents in clothing.
• More visually elegant braids are worn in the hair, along with jewels.
• Hvárrljós - The largest variance in appearance, their clothes are mixes of the various cultures they have interacted with.
• As travellers they love layers.
• They tend to wear patchwork cloaks of deep blue and purple.
• They usually wear their hair loose.
• Most likely to have half-Alfar babies.
• Kveld - Ever civilized they dress in sleek lines and have a regal air about them.
• They tend to wear purples with deep orange, gold or silver accents, and, usually with a green-and-gray cloak that blends well with the colours of the forest.
• Hair tends to be braided back in tighter knit braids so hair does not get in the way of fighting.
• Metallic cords (favouring golds and coppers) or rings are usually braided into the hair.
• Dökk - Due to living in the depths of the Earth, most have developed either void black hair or silvery moon white hair.
• Their clothes are elegant, like that of the Ljós and Kveld, and dark to reflect their natural environment.
• Hair usually worn down or in the braid style of whichever clan they had started life as centuries ago. No hair jewelry or cords are worn at this stage.
• Rökkr- [restricted/NPC] - Skin becomes splotchy, painful with black veins. It is a spread of a disease and not easily covered.
• The more corrupt they become the more they take pride in the corruption and wear it as a badge of honour, so do not cover it.
• Their base type of alfar is seen through the corruption but are being taken over.

Common Culture

Languages:

Common, Lux (Alfar Common), Praeluxi (Ljós), Reluxi (Lysa), Subluxi (Kveld), Illuxi (Hvárrljós), Perluxi (Dökk), Nulluxi (Rökkr slang)

Solitary or Groups / Nomadic or Seditary:

Group Names:

Typical Dwellings:

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Naming:

In the Kingdom of Thrir the Royal lines take the surname Måltrost (Song Thrush) removing the honorific of their family name and replacing the honorific of the Dökk and Ljós before the new surname.
• Ljós: Surname Honorific: Ē (always)
• Lysa: Surname Honorific: Frá (away)
• Hvárrljós: Surname Honorific: Í (between)
• Kveld: Surname Honorific: Á (towards)
• Dökk: Surname Honorific: Ē (always)

• Rökkr: When an Alfar has become corrupted they lose the honorifics in their surnames.

Heraldry/Personal Marks:

Nobility Symbols:

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Most Common Clans in the Area:

Hvárrljós: Í'Hverfa, Í'Methal, Í'Thví
Lysa: Frá'Elding
Ljós: Ē'Hyrr

Common Professions:

Artisial jobs (weaponsmiths, armoursmith, artist, musician, baker), Rangers, Scouts, Anything involving stealth.

Cultural Taboos:

Amongst all Alfar, it is super taboo to fall into the corruption and become a Rökkr.

Exterior Cultural Influences:

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Underground:

Origin Folklore/ Major Historical Events

  The stories passed down from the ancients say that the gods created the Alfar to keep balance in all things, they were the opposition of the Fae's chaos- the duality in itself a form of balance- they were created long before humans spring fourth.
When the original Alfar failed to keep their side of the balance, fell into childish and greedy tendencies, the entire race became cursed with the Corruption. In their plea to the gods, Organent created Uerco to teach Alfar of change and help renew the species, but the curse would not be fully lifted. It is not acts of killing or violence or pride that corrupt their existence, but it is warned that breaking the balance brings about the first marks of the curse.

Important Figures: Names, what they did

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Original Real world myths

  Based on the modern elf concept