The story has not introduced individual elves yet — apart from the elf that killed Emery Thurm Master Raidenbarl [B1.C9]. Also, information on their abilities, relations and way of life have not yet been revealed.
As the story progresses, secrets about elves will be added here.
APPEARANCE
ELVES AS ENTITIES OF NOISE
“The darkness drew closer, the black ceiling and the stone walls converging around him. Darkness and pain on the outside brought forth darkness and pain from the inside, and everything clashed and melded. And into the suffocating vacuum that gave Yves nothing to hold onto, seeped the haunting elf noise. And the noise grew and swelled around him and within him, and it submerged him in a maddening sea of sound.” [B1.C9]
“For the first hours after waking, the elf noise never left him, and he was reduced to an unconscious amalgam of pain and screams and panic that would put any senseless beast to shame.” [B1.C9]
Elves are sickly, nightmarish entities of pure, unrestrained and unbearable noise.
Their presence distorts all senses of a wizard. Their existence is a living dissonance, a disorienting and jarring scream that warps everything around them. Their breath is the guttural rushing of flooding fire, their voice the roar of an inferno – both silent to the ear but devastating to the mind. Their being devastates the gentle melodies of the forest; a violent, chaotic clash of sound capable of driving even the most composed wizards to madness. Their laughter erupts as high-pitched shrieks that shatter shards and crystals, and their screams echo like the wails of a thousand tortured spectres.
Their touch is a thousand needles piercing your skin, each puncture transferring more terrible noise. To face an elf is to face the embodiment of chaos, the very essence of madness.
ELF ROTHAR
Their Rothar is an infernal blaze. If you look at them with your second sight, it burns away your sight. When encountering the elf in [B1.C9], Yves had only looked for the blink of an eye, saved by Midnight. If she had not sunk her teeth into his arm, hurling him to the ground that very instance, his sight would have been forever lost.
A TRANSFORMATIVE EXISTENCE
"Yves had crossed paths with an elf and lived. He had seen an elf through second sight, and whatever it was that he had seen, it had stared back at him." [B1.C9]
Scripture holds that they had once been sensible beings of beauty and grace, but that they had been corrupted by ancient and unspeakable forces. Now, they are a wandering plaque, obliterating everything they touch and leaving nothing but destruction in their wake.
MAGIC AND ABILITIES
An overview on abilities and skills exhibited by elves. As of now, this is a list of accounts by individual witnesses.
MOVEMENT — SPEED
"The elf was but a flicker at the edge of perception — he moved with such swiftness that Yves only recognised him when he had already closed the distance." [B1.C9]
Elves move with exceptional speed.
MAGICAL ABILITIES
INVISIBLE CONTROL
"The elf ensnared the wizard with an unseen force, suspending him mid-air, contorting and torturing his body, ripping apart the wizard’s limbs, his presence and magic shaking Yves to the core." [B1.C9]
Yves witnessed an elf wielding invisible magic, affecting Raidenbarl without visibly touching him.
BEAMS OF ENERGY
With a singular blast of energy, the elf in [B1.C9] threw Yves against a tree, the impact shattering several bones.
SIGHTINGS
A chronology of elf sighting, expanding as the story grows.
VERIDIAN EXPANSE
FOREST
The Veridian forests spans a vast and perilous wilderness. Only small sections of the dense foliage are inhabited by forest beasts and tribes. Emery Thurm, situated at the heart of the Veridian expanse, touches upon the forest.
[B1.C9] On their way to start their training at Emery Thurm, Yves and Midnight encounter Master Raidenbarl, his Jabarrah and their opponent — the elf whi is responsible for Yves' degenerating sight.