The Cirque Condensed: Elphs

Elu-afaei, also known as 'Elphs', are generally pointy eared humanoids that are fairly common in the Cirque.

• nomadic
  • Elphs historically are a nomadic people and still show nomadic tendencies in the modern day. Entire cities only fully occupied during specific seasons, with a few hold-outs that rotate care-taking duties each cycle (a specific group does this, though there are individuals who for various reasons do not migrate with the others as well).
  • Most intra-species conflict comes from territory disputes from other Elphen nations 'wrongfully' occupying or destroying cities, that and religious disputes between gods and their followers.
• bio-engineers
  • Elphs are notorious bio-engineers, while the Pyrefei selectively breed and use natural means to establish new species^[1], Elphs use magical means to alter and establish new species.
• animists
  • Originally animists like the Faeng, overtime as their understanding of the ambient/natural magics of Ameneyates and their own inner magic gave rise to powerful beings within the various Elphen cultures. There was an overall gradual shift to animism to deity worship, though there are still a fair amount of Elphen cultures that to this day that remain pure animists.

Factions

There are many different sub-groups, called courts, of Elphs, as they are originally a nomadic and reclusive species who generally maintain a decentralized culture. Some courts maintain a friendly relationship with other Sophonts while other courts prefer to remain low-contact.

Elu'hyr

The Elu'hyr are a faction of Elphen bio-engineers and their patron gods who managed to develop what they call a 'perfect' organism by the way of discovering a sequence of biological and metaphysical genes that theoretically could be introduced into any sophont.

The Elu'hyr approached the other sophonts of Ameneyates with their intentions, they where to bring their gift to them and all were to accept their gift. The Faeng where the first to reject the Elu'hyr, after just having won their independence from the Aurai the Faeng would never allow themselves or the rest of Ameneyates to lose their free-will. The Faeng challenged the Elu'hyr and quickly found themselves under siege yet again.

Ameneyatii

The Elu'amenyatii, also known as the Ameneyatii, are said to be the oldest Elphen court and maintain a close relationship with the Faeng Shimmera.

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