Moon Elf

Moon Elves, also known as Wilara in their own tongue, are a light-skinned race of Elves that predominantly live underground inside of mineshafts. Inside of these mineshafts they work away, digging up gems and makanium for their Sun Elf masters. Most Moon Elves believe that this is simply the order of nature, but other Moon Elves try to break their chains and run away to the surface. Moon Elves who have broken free often get scared and confused by all the new cultures they meet when first leaving the mines and will seek the company of other Moon elves. Together they form xenophobic communities where they protect themselves from threats of the outside world. However there are just as many moon elves who see the harshness they had to face before as a source of pride and inspiration. This motivates them to go out into the world and fight for a freer and better tomorrow.

Description
Moon Elves are a bit shorter than other elves. The female Moon Elves are typically taller and stronger than the males, with man standing around 1.45 to 1.70 meters (4'7 - 5'5) while females vary in height from 1.58 to 1.78 meters (5′2″ - 5′8″). Moon Elves weight somewhere from 45 to 77 kilograms (100 to 170 pounds).

A Moon Elf's skin is pale and snow-like. Their eyes are very commonly a bright and unnerving red, although some have dark blue or green eyes. Moon Elf hair is commonly worn long and has a blond, white, or silvery white hue, although some may colour it with bright hair dyes to differentiate themselves from the crowd. This hair is carefully groomed and cared by most Moon Elves. Many Moon Elves also like to decorate it with jewellery and other accessories. Like all elves, Moon Elves are incapable of growing beards, though many males are fond of their long sideburns.

The Lifespan of an Moon Elf outshines that of a human but is lower than those of the other Elven races. This is, of course, presuming that the Moon Elf lives long enough to die from old age and doesn't meet a premature and violent end as many often do. Those that survived the trails and tribulations of life can live for a century and a half. When a female Moon Elves has blonde hues in her hair it indicate that the Moon Elf in question is of an older age than most. Elder males on the other hand become more silver with the years.

A Moon Elf matures slightly faster than a human. When a baby is 2 years old it will already have learned to walk and the child reaches physical maturity at their fourteenth. Sexually however they won't be mature until their sixteenth birthday. Moon Elves are taught from birth that they are meant to serve the other elves and dig for gemstones all day. Children who resisted this fate are brutally punished by the High Elf guards and beaten into submission. It's important to recognise that their position isn't natural and wasn't always so. The ancestors of the moon Elves have slowly grew into this position after they sacrificed themselves to save the kingdom of Al-Roc. The kingdom was threatened to collapse to foreign invasions after the turmoil caused by the disappearance of The great city of Al-Kanish caused widespread chaos and famine across the world. Only the increased production of metal production could allow the kingdom to make enough weaponry to fight off the invaders and safe itself and its inhabitants.

Abilities
Moon Elves have special abilities that differentiate them from other races, including other elves. they are as agile as the other Elves but have a certain down-to-earth charm to them that the other Elves lack. Moon Elves are magically adapt by nature, and likewise have a tremendous resistance to it. They can call forth several magical orbs of light which apart from their obvious use as a light source can also be used to divert the attention of a an assailant.

Moon Elves soldiers also learn to more advanced magical abilities. One of these is the ability to give an object or person an outline of coloured light around it, which they often use as a signals to convey information over long distances by using a complex array of colours and colour combinations. Some elder Moon Elves have learned a way to invert this ability and turn it into a cloud of pure darkness. This darkness looks similar to monolithic stone that is often found underground and some tricksy Moon Elves may use this fact to create an ambushes or to cover up their traps.

Psychology
Moon Elves are humble, distrustful, and easily manipulated. Years of abuse by the other Elves has resulted in a race of emotionally stunted people. Most adult Moon Elves have a tenuous grasp on sanity and are scarred for life. Indeed among the Moon Elves a undamaged minds is considered abnormal. For those that escaped their fate they can rely on their graceful Elven appearance, which makes it easier for them to be accepted into the communities of the surface. Free Moon Elves often have an obsession with beautiful things and will try to surround themselves with what they considered beautiful. They don't really pay attention to how much these beautiful things will cost them, even if it could bankrupt them. They also like to partake in lavish parties where they indulge in the pleasures of life, including massive diners and hour long massages. Other Moon Elves are more fond of dancing or creating music and turn this desire for beauty into a stable income, becoming skillful bards with songs of sorrow and freedom.

When everyone is hungry, the world teaches you to be distrustful of others from a very young age. For the Moon Elves, forming bonds has become something of great difficulty and most relationships are of a temporary nature as the other party is most likely to either soon betray you or die. Moon Elves still see each other as family thou and will often prefer to help another Moon elf over their friends, even if they don't known them at all.

Some Moon Elves like to tame Will-O-Wisps, who help them light up the mines and feed off their negative emotions. These wisps look very similar to the magical orbs that Moon Elves can create themselves, which some clever Moon Elves use to their advantage. They might summon four orbs which move sporadically around their enemy while their wisp moves between them and makes attacks.

Will-O-Wisps are very playful on acount of that many of them used to be small woodland critters before their death, they especially like to play around with children, which make them beloved childhood pets.