the basic premise is this: everything past Fnaf 4? doesn't exist and we're starting from scratch on that. this means no Emily and Afton families, no sci-fi stuff, No Remnant I've Gotta Deal With. the killer is an entirely different dude (and he fucking sucks).
i've made a couple of posts about it: one explaining the general premise, rules, giving the names for new characters (and who their canon equivalents are), and giving a character summary for the murderer :]
the other is just a few fun facts i told my friend, as well as explaining who the Shadows are.
please ask about these silly lil guys!! i wanna talk about them... 👉👈
You have many many Moonshadow elf headcanons. Do you have things for other elves? I simply must know :)
Yes, actually! There's a lot to go to this question, but I can ramble a bit of some of it.
Sunfire Elves:
This is somewhat drawn from another headcanon I've seen on here, I honestly don't remember which blog it originally came from but I have it reblogged somewhere, but nothing important happens among Sunfire elves when it's overcast or raining. Only essential work gets done. If it's just overcast and not raining modern elves are more forgiving about it, but most ceremonies and such still must take place under open sun. They also have a strong reverence for strength and truth, which is accompanied by a sort of cultural arrogance believing themselves to be the moral high ground of Xadia.
They are some of the most numerous elves, only matched by the Earthblood in numbers but far more unified. They're the most likely elves to marry into Moonshadow families, given their strong association through the Assassins' Guild moving through the city, and their mutual emphasis on truth.
Sunfire elves purr too, but they are much louder about it. Some Sunfire purrs sound less like cats and more like flowing lava or cracking earth (Janai is one of these). They're also some of the tallest of the elves, regularly reaching heights of 6 feet or 2 meters and above as an average. Like the Moonshadow they tend to have fairly human proportions, though they do bulk out more than the Moonshadow do.
Skywing Elves:
The Skywing have several subcultures that all maintain a healthy respect for each other. Their engineers created the city of Innea and the Celestial Spire, and they're known for this level of engineering. Some of their people live in cities and satisfy their sense of adventure with inventing things. The bulk of the population are nomads moving in caravans around Xadia, and they have the most advanced and reliable trade network in Xadia as a result. Groups of nomads and engineers also check back in and help out around the Celestial Spire, as a completely blinded society in their situation really . . . doesn't make any sense without assistance.
These elves also have a strong emphasis on community and kindness, without a lot of regard for the "truth". Things change. Traditionally they offer help to anyone in need, even if that person has harmed them before, because there's always a chance they may need the same help one day. They believe it fosters goodwill in the world even if that one person isn't of the same mind and doesn't change as a result. They're not big planners as far as specific timelines go, as they tend to prioritize adaptability over strictness, but they know the weather patterns of mainland Xadia better than anyone else. They get along the best with the Tidebound, as both cultures are heavy on travel, trade, weather, and change. Second to the Tidebound, they have some of the least prejudices towards humans, and some caravans may trade secretly with smaller villages in the mountains of northern Duren in particular.
Sunfire and Moonshadow elves both might also look down on Skywing elves in some situations. When faced with an impossible battle, the Sunfire and Moonshadow both are more likely to go down fighting than to leave. The Sunfire because it would never occur to them to back down, and the Moonshadow because even if they die they've at least proven their dedication to their duty. The Skywing see things in a more "live to fight another day" light, and would generally choose to flee, as Hendyr the Dragonguard did.
Earthblood Elves:
I think I have the least on Earthblood elves, because we just don't know enough about them. They number nearly as many as the Sunfire elves and they probably trade "highest population" back and forth with them, but unlike the largely unified Sunfire Kingdom, the Earthblood have several unrelated or barely related subcultures. The Drake Riders of the Drakewood are only one of the Earthblood societies that exists in the Uncharted Forest, and are generally considered the most actively aggressive. There's some canon implication that they're not the only ones that live there, and my personal headcanon is that the other main subculture is . . . asocial as opposed to the Drake Riders' antisocial, so to speak. They don't tend to leave the forest much, and they don't seek out other elves, but they don't bother fighting them off either if someone comes looking for them. Terry is from this subculture, not the Drake Riders, which is why the everything about him is so incongruous with them.
Along with those two groups, though, there's also the more stone-aligned monks like Mukho that tend to live in the mountains around Umber Tor and other places in Xadia. They're far more peaceful and friendly, and interact with other elves of Xadia fairly readily. They do tend to come across as A Bit Odd, though.
There's also less isolationist forest or swamp Earthblood in other places in Xadia, each of which tend to operate with their own local social practices rather than having a unified culture. They all identify each other as Earthblood and have a certain kinship. They could all be considered a certain level of ruthless in the right circumstances, though some (like the monks) can be quite friendly and magnanimous when those circumstances aren't being met. They're second only to the Sunfire elves in the level of interaction they have with Moonshadow elves, but they marry in far less, less even than the Skywing traders, as the whole reason Moonshadow Forest isn't inhabited by them in the first place is how saturated it is with Moon magic that makes it feel sick and unsettling to the Earthblood.
Tidebound Elves:
Not much is known about the underwater civilization of Tidebound, but I headcanon it draws from both the gilblins and naga of World of Warcraft. They don't have much of a care for the surface world, in general, and they're pretty chill about the concept of eating each other because after you reach a certain size as a carnivore in the ocean, food becomes a very high priority. There's rules about appropriate hunting zones, though, and there's ways to avoid them.
As far as the surface goes, Tidebound elves are well-known the world over as pirates and sailors. They have a robust trade network, the best at sea, and have very little personal prejudices against humans as a whole because they interact with their fleets regularly. Humans who have offended them are generally just avoided (Katolian ships), but if the offense is great enough, they are the source of human myths about sirens and other monsters of the deep. They take pride in this reputation. On the other hand, humans that treat them with respect will be treated with respect in return.
Queen Fareeda of Evenere actually personally interacted with several heads of Tidebound trade guilds and maintained a healthy, positive association for her island nation with the ocean mages who could have very easily destroyed it. Callum's Spellbook says that she was a bright, cheery person, and I'm going to add a good singer, and this appealed to the Tidebound - she got along with them famously. Several Tidebound sailors made loud noises about how if it weren't for the war and the distance that divides them thanks to the other human kingdoms they'd happily marry her. She laughed them off, but she's one of the most reluctant to start a war with Xadia, both because she's very aware of how vulnerable she is to her Tidebound allies and because well, they are her allies in a very measurable way, and she likes them. Her citizens are a bit less warm to the idea, but it's not unheard of to see Tidebound elves just openly walking about some of the seaside ports of Evenere, further away from the mainland.
Just as the Moonshadow emphasize dance, the Tidebound emphasize song. Sounds are far more important than visuals to them. More aquatic Tidebound are also often largely colorblind, and highly sensitive to light, sound, and smell. Some would even go so far as to say they're blinded by air and can genuinely navigate better under the water. Some Tidebound mages genuinely can and do weave hypnotization into their songs, hence the stories of sirens - they exist, they're very real, as a specific sort of mage.
Val doesn’t want to leave Brayden, so he refuses every trade that the team comes to him with...and then he scores the OT goal against Montreal that is the difference between the Lightning making the playoffs and not. What else happens?
I know that mating and marriage are different things for moonshadow elves, but I was curious what exactly “mates” denotes. Does it have any biological implications, like how some animals mate for life and won’t take another even if their mate dies, or is it just a term to specify a stronger commitment than “lovers”?
It's not really that complicated lmao. Moonshadow elves had a real close genetic bottleneck centuries ago that caused them to put a strong emphasis on the difference between romantic, marital, and sexual relationships. I could give a whole paper about the history of the terminology and how it's changed, but the current day version they use is pretty blunt. "Mates" is just a term they use for long-term sexual/"mating" partners. Elves don't really have the same taboos about acknowledging sex in a public setting as humans do, because honestly with the horns and certain positions, the scratches often make it . . . pretty obvious. Unlike how humans have a vast and highly individual interpretation of terms like "boyfriend/girlfriend", "partner", "lover," what they mean and where the terms overlap or don't, the Moonshadow elves are an isolated and ritualized enough group that they pretty much agree on the word. "Partners" would be the word for a nonsexual relationship, or potentially "lovers" if they wanted to make it clear it was romantic and nonsexual, though it's often not really something they need to specify in words. They wouldn't really use the word "partner" for a sexual relationship unless it's in the context of a marriage, which would have its own visual identifier (horn cuffs) of what it means. Nonsexual marriages also just wouldn't really need to explain the difference, so it no longer matters at that point.
