Post by Vanya Thenidiel on Jul 2, 2007 15:43:08 GMT -5
All elves are a family. All time for elves is long. They all greet one another with great big hugs. If the two have met before they speak or sing of their travels since last meeting. Humans who hear an elf sing are enchanted by their voices and while within hearing distance cannot move, such is the ecstasy in which they are wrapt. Plants harmonize with all being and their song is the song of the universe.
Elves don’t sleep. They meditate in trance for a few moments and then enter the world of dreams fully awake. Those elves who spend time with humans may be able to join in the human dreams and control them, to a certain extent. Humans who spend time with elves and encounter such dreamwork will gradually transform into elves over time. Given shared dreams, they begin showing elven characteristics and attitudes. From this observation, it has been suggested by elven sages that humans are elven ‘eggs’, which can be fertilized through dreams by an elf who wishes to see this ‘hatchling’ through to ‘becoming’, or full realization. As some elves see it, then, humans are like children, some playing Mother Nature’s game, and some not. Regardless, since elves live so long, it seems likeley that all humans may eventually become elves.
Elves eat rarely and live quite healthily on water and sunshine. Human food makes them queasy and human liqour is of unfortunately poor quality. Elven mead and wine are very strong and tasty.
Elves love trees because they feel related to them. They understand that trees are intelligent, nonmobile sages of great wisdom, spending the entirety of their lives in meditation. Elven Sages are said to become trees upon their final rebirth.
Elves don’t die like humans do. They mature and then, after many journeys about the great star, (this process is not completely understood), they wither and are reborn with continued memory and a similar, though renewed body. This is the evolved state of the vegetative cycle of renewal (rebirth). It is said that rebirth requires a conscious choice, however, so that elves who doubt their ability to be reborn may be reborn as trees instead. Often rites of death and rebirth are performed in winter and spring, preferably in Eska’eldalie.
The entirety of the elven life, the Way, is one of fun, love and laughter. They delight in games and their childlike nature combines with their often advanced intellect to create some of the most sophisticated and challenging games of skill and chance, involving magical powers, spells, quests and mysteries.
Their ‘religion’, if you will, is based on such games. Elves aren’t required to believe anything, but are told a marvellous story which encompasses and enriches their lives. This is the story which most elves are told upon their lingual maturity. It is understood, at the time, that it can help the individual understand his or her place in the cosmos and give him or her a basis for interaction with the world, but there are other, equally valualbe stories that will do the same. This is the story they call : ‘The Creation of Life’.
Text found by VanQa (slightly altered to fit the Elven Guild) - 23rd of January 2005
I would like to mention that some of the information above may clash with information found elsewhere on this page. This information is merely meant to help people roleplaying their elven characters, how they use this information is their own choice.
Elves don’t sleep. They meditate in trance for a few moments and then enter the world of dreams fully awake. Those elves who spend time with humans may be able to join in the human dreams and control them, to a certain extent. Humans who spend time with elves and encounter such dreamwork will gradually transform into elves over time. Given shared dreams, they begin showing elven characteristics and attitudes. From this observation, it has been suggested by elven sages that humans are elven ‘eggs’, which can be fertilized through dreams by an elf who wishes to see this ‘hatchling’ through to ‘becoming’, or full realization. As some elves see it, then, humans are like children, some playing Mother Nature’s game, and some not. Regardless, since elves live so long, it seems likeley that all humans may eventually become elves.
Elves eat rarely and live quite healthily on water and sunshine. Human food makes them queasy and human liqour is of unfortunately poor quality. Elven mead and wine are very strong and tasty.
Elves love trees because they feel related to them. They understand that trees are intelligent, nonmobile sages of great wisdom, spending the entirety of their lives in meditation. Elven Sages are said to become trees upon their final rebirth.
Elves don’t die like humans do. They mature and then, after many journeys about the great star, (this process is not completely understood), they wither and are reborn with continued memory and a similar, though renewed body. This is the evolved state of the vegetative cycle of renewal (rebirth). It is said that rebirth requires a conscious choice, however, so that elves who doubt their ability to be reborn may be reborn as trees instead. Often rites of death and rebirth are performed in winter and spring, preferably in Eska’eldalie.
The entirety of the elven life, the Way, is one of fun, love and laughter. They delight in games and their childlike nature combines with their often advanced intellect to create some of the most sophisticated and challenging games of skill and chance, involving magical powers, spells, quests and mysteries.
Their ‘religion’, if you will, is based on such games. Elves aren’t required to believe anything, but are told a marvellous story which encompasses and enriches their lives. This is the story which most elves are told upon their lingual maturity. It is understood, at the time, that it can help the individual understand his or her place in the cosmos and give him or her a basis for interaction with the world, but there are other, equally valualbe stories that will do the same. This is the story they call : ‘The Creation of Life’.
Text found by VanQa (slightly altered to fit the Elven Guild) - 23rd of January 2005
I would like to mention that some of the information above may clash with information found elsewhere on this page. This information is merely meant to help people roleplaying their elven characters, how they use this information is their own choice.
