Wild Elves

Wild elves are extremely uncommon in urban areas - these are traditional elves who more often than not choose to avoid modern civilization. These elves are deeply connected to nature and stick to their roots outside of urban areas, living in communes in wild expanses of land, some of which are protected from urban development as Wild Elf Territories, although there are frequent legal battles from greedy developers wishing to buy up this land. They live up to 500 years, mentally and physically ageing like humans until they are adult, and then physically age exponentially slower. Whilst they are considered 'adults' at 21, in Wild Elf culture it is common for elders to consider younger elves 'immature' until they are 100.

They often have an element of nature related to their territory that they build their culture around - typically you might see cloud, wood, snow, fire, and sea elves It's extremely uncommon for a Wild Elf to choose to live in the city, but it does happen from time to time, as younger generations wish to join modern society.

Normally, they live in pockets of their own communities, out in nature, living a simpler and technology-free existence, self sufficient and still practicing old traditions. Although there is nothing physically different between wild and city elves genetically, wild elves often have some physical traits reminiscent of their location, and an extremely natural appearance - their culture believes the body is sacred as nature intended it, many elf communes having a tradition of never cutting their hair.

Wild elves communes are like huge families, even those who aren't related. Children are communally raised, all the young elves in the commune are 'siblings', and the idea of marriage is not common except between the head of the commune and their chosen partner, which is more of a ceremonial thing. Wild elves often don't use currency, and they work collectively to achieve everything they need for self-sufficiency.

Echor City has a small population of around 1,500 wild elves out of a total of 150,000 citizens.