A half-elf, plagued by sexual assailants for half his life, falls in love with an incubus. After the demon is sentenced to death for courting an elf, the half-elf must journey across the continent to save his forbidden lover.
Elves once ruled nearly all of Verascith, because they're one of the most magically powerful species, and they're quite advanced compared to most races (can't really beat the dwarves, though, all they do is build). They enslaved many species, and kept sentient beings as pets, including nekomata and centaurs. One day, almost out of nowhere, the high elves found themselves up against angels, supposed descendants of sirens, who didn't have much magic, but did have wings and strong armies.
See, while the elves were pampering themselves and whipping their slaves, the angels were hiding high in the clouds and mountaintops, whipping their own slaves and soldiers alike, in an effort to catch up with the power and influence of the elves as quickly as possible. A few angels had been captured and dewinged, and it didn't take long for their brethren to decide they'd had enough. So the angels threw out (and/or killed) their slaves and replaced the dungeons with armories. They surprised the elves by ambushing their capital as soon as the horizon went from black to grey.
What started as the Elf-Angel War quickly turned into the Elven Genocide, as the angels vowed to wipe out every last elf, mother and child included.
During the first few days, about 100 children were sent to hide deep in the largest nearby forest. The smaller the child, and the darker their skin or hair, the harder they were to find. It didn't take long for any child with white hair and glowing white skin to be found and mercilessly slain. Any child who was too large to hide in tree trunks or in bushes was easily captured and executed. Over the next 3000 years, these children and their offspring would get increasingly smaller and darker with each generation. These became the wood elves.
A few years into the genocide, as many other species began getting involved with the worldwide slaughtering of elves, a group of elves decided enough was enough, and it was time for them to fight fire with fire. Their superiors and companions refused to genocide the angels, centaurs, and other races, because "We're better than those animals. We will beat them into submission, in time, with planning, but we will not be animals".These rebellious elves who wanted to kill angel and centaur children left their homes and joined together to hide away inside the deepest caves they could find. They began practicing dark magic and blood magic, using it to kill anything that tried to hunt them down. These became the dark elves.
Eventually, the elves, now calling themselves high elves to distinguish themselves from the "lesser races", were reduced to just a few thousand, and were isolated to the capital. Their homes were torn down, their prisons were burned, and their cities were reduced to ruins, or taken over by other Verascithians. Things eventually calmed down, as the angels recognized the high elves would never recover from the genocide to regain the rule they once had, and the high elves took this opportunity to hunt down the wood elves. They were disgusted by the animalistic, dark-skinned, dark-haired, child-faced people they found, and proceeded to kill all the men and children in that village and take the women, completely unaware that the wood elves had spread to other forests and many other villages.
The high elves proceeded to lock up the female wood elves and r*ped them repeatedly, trying to "breed their blood back to purity". After many attempts, they realized they weren't getting anywhere (and they realized their flawed thinking, though unfortunately, not the immorality of it), because the children, and the children of those children, weren't becoming pale-skinned, white/blonde-haired. Instead, their skin was staying sand-colored, and they could be born with any hair color between blonde and brown. Their eyes were almost always green, and sometimes blue or brown.So they threw out the new race, which they disgustingly called "mid elves" (to suggest they're better than the wood elves, but not quite true elves), and forced them to live in the run down remains of an old elven city. After these mid elves had children on their own, they sent their own children away as soon as they were old enough, to get further away from their high elf rulers, and those children would start a new village together. This became a mid elf tradition.
After this, the angels and centaurs began a war with each other. With the powerful high elves out of the way, they were the two most capable, and most arrogant species left. The angels wanted to take over Verascith, now that the high elves were reduced to hiding in their capital. The centaurs insisted it was their land, and they had the rights to it, as the angels were creatures of the skies, and should have no say over the land. The war goes on even today, and angels and centaurs will kill each other, without mercy, on sight.
Any high elf that gets in the way is either beaten to an inch of his life, or killed. Any high elf found by most any civilization will be brutally, viciously attacked, or otherwise shunned and chased out. So now, high elves rarely travel. When they do, they bring many soldiers and body guards with them.
Mid elves bear the brunt of most of this trouble, though, since many of them have light-colored hair, and they have light, sandy skin. They're often mistaken for high elves, and tend to be treated as such. Word is slowly spreading of the new race, however, so the attacks are becoming less and less frequent, gradually. Wood elves, though, still hate the mid elves because of what they came from and what they inherently represent. Dark elves don't really care about them either way. All the races, aside from high elves, prefer to keep to themselves when possible.
That is the story of the Elven Genocide, and how the elf races came to be.
The Liontail unicorn is said to be the oldest unicorn species, being one of the few species left to have cloven hooves. It has a 1-2 foot long horn which spirals clockwise, located between its eyes. It is the only species of unicorn to have its horn so low on the face. They have beards, and long fur on their legs. Their tails are equal to the length of their body and neck, and are tipped with very long fur. Their manes, however, are naturally short compared to other unicorns and horses.
Liontails come in three main colors: white, grey, and black. They are generally unfriendly and territorial. During mating season, males are highly aggressive, and will attack anything they see. This species of unicorn wanders across the lands and can be found just about anywhere except the desert, snowy mountains, and wastelands.
Black Forest unicorns live primarily in rainforests, but can also be found in pine forests, They have rough noses, large ears, and have short fur all over. They do not have beards, and their tails are horse-like. Their straight, smooth horns grow slowly as they age, and can grow up to four feet long. The horn is located on the forehead between the ears. Their manes are long and rough, and their hooves are full, but low and long, making them look cloven at first glance. They are, however, a modern species, and their hooves are whole. They can only be found in black, and are the tamest of the unicorn species, being quite anxious of elvenoids.
Western Spiral Horn unicorns are another modern species of unicorn and have solid hooves. They have spiral horns which spiral clockwise, and grow up to 14 inches long. This horn is located on the forehead, just above the eyes. Like other modern species, they have short fur, horse-like tails, and lack beards. They have very small ears, and are the most horse-like of the currently known unicorn species. They can only be found in white.
Western unicorns are generally safe to be around, but are territorial and highly protective of their offspring, especially during mating and foaling seasons. Males are much more aggressive than females and often wander alone, while herds are made up of females with occasionally one or two males. These herds prefer lowlands and wide open fields.
Northern Smooth Horn unicorns are a somewhat older species of unicorn, with large, cloven hooves, and a silky beard. They have thick manes that cover the neck and chest, and a lot of fur around their hooves. Their horns, located in the center of the forehead, are large, grow up to three feet in length, and are smooth and curved. Their tails are short compared to the liontail unicorn, but with extremely long fur.
Northern unicorns are very large, and very muscular animals, and are not keen on socialization. However, they do not often attack elvenoids unless provoked, and will instead make loud noises and wave their horns while hoof stomping to scare off anything that invades their territory. If this does not work, they will charge and cannot be stopped until they either kill or lose sight of their opponent. This species of unicorn can only be found in black and grey. They live exclusively in the snowy mountains of the far north, often alone.
Kelpies are primitive animals that live in swamps. They’re carnivorous and intelligent water horses that are able to use natural magic to transform themselves to lure in their prey.
They are very thin, and naturally look malnourished by comparison to a normal horse. Their hooves appear to be backwards, which helps trick slightly intelligent creatures into thinking that going opposite of the tracks will lead to safety. They do not have manes, but do have tails. They have darkly colored coats, which range from charcoal grey to ink black, and can even be found in dark green. Often, however, they may disguise themselves as pure white horse, or even a hornless unicorn.
When kelpies transform, they always keep their hooves, which retain the backwards appearance. Why this is so is unknown.
Kelpie skin excretes a natural adhesive, like sap, which is only enhanced by the muck of the swampy water they live in. This natural adhesive binds to anything that comes in contact with it, which helps them blend in with their environment by grabbing onto moss and leaves. It also makes catching prey much easier, as any person who tries to pet the kelpie, or any predator which tries to bite it, will immediately be stuck to it, at which point, the kelpie can return to the water and drown it.
The kelpie’s appearance is based off the real world horse breed, Akhal-teke.
(Image credit to HorseBreedsPictures.com)
The theotes are the gods of Verascith. They’re elemental spirits, worshipped by most others, as they created the world everyone lives in. Each theote represents a different element of the universe: air, water, fire, ground, love, light, death, darkness, poison, metal, ice, lightning, and so on.
They are usually unseen by the residents of Verascith, but can be communicated with through prayer and Latin spells. On rare occassions, a resident of Verascith may receive a gift or blessing from a theote, or be favored by one.
Some cultures may focus their worship on just one theote, but most choose to honor all of them.
Khidell is a young adult elf, 50 years old, which is equal to 26 in humans. Elves live to be 300 years old, so he is basically a fetus. He has light skin and long straight black hair, and blue eyes. He wears dresses lengthened shirts, and shorts.
He is half mid elf and half siren. His father is the mid elf, his mother is the siren. I’ll discuss them more later.
Because of his father’s genes, he is beautiful. Because of his mother’s genes, he has a few blue feathers scattered on his shoulders and hips, but more importantly his body constantly puts out a pheromone that makes male sentient beings lose their absolute minds with lust.
Elves are not very strong. I think you know where I’m going with this.
Khidell’s life hasn’t been that great since he was like 12 for humans. It kinda broke him. His father tries to help, but Khidell gave up a long time ago and this this is just going to be his life forever, for the remaining 250 years of his life.
They stress each other out a lot. Khidell’s uncle has to keep the peace. It doesn’t really work.
What does work, though, is Khidell meeting an incubus, of all things. The incubus is inherently sexual, just like sirens. So they’re both drawn to each other. But it turns out, they’re also both really nice to each other and treat each other like living people who matter.
So they elope. Khidell becomes happy. He finds out he likes music and archery. He starts dressing like a normal elf. He starts getting along with his dad. He gets a horse.
