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Elves of the Eastern Realms

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Elf lore in my fairly standard setting. Perhaps something here may interest you. Though much of the Eastern Realms are dominated by the crawling expanse of the Human Kingdoms, the Elves persist just beyond the borderlands. Slender, blonde, beautiful and supposedly immortal. Elven androgyny fools Humans, as the folk-comedies will tell you. The Elves are fickle. They delight in spending time doing nothing at all - a decade spent picknicking on a meadow is well spent, but so is leaving everything behind to venture for a painting they once heard of, only to abandon it once recovered. It is said that some Elves have collected stores of tomes so vast they rival that of Kingdoms, but no, not for reading, for appearances. The aesthetic of reading, like many other things, is far more engaging to an Elf than the act. An Elf will find any means of avoidance preferable to something they don't feel like doing, a trait shared with Wizard's apprentices. Elves thrive off beauty, and