Elves

Elves have been present in Lanyir as long as humans, though they lived in more remote areas, their more intuitive grasp of magic letting them support large communities without farming. Where humans claimed plains and coasts, elves were dominant in forests.   Though Elfaivar has by far the largest elven population, Risur is noteworthy for having a conflux of elves from many origins around Lanyir. Oldest are the original inhabitants of Antwalk Thicket. Later they mingled with elves fleeing the rise of the Demonocracy across the Avery Sea. After the Great Malice, the Diaspora brought thousands of Elfaivaran elves, and during the past two centuries a few hundred Tundarasne elves arrived, survivors of a terrible genocide in northern Drakr (though Drakr denies it ever occurred). Half-elves and intermingling of elven communities have become so common that Risuri think nothing of it.   Other communities of elves, tiny by comparison, endure in parts of Danor and various border states, where they often try to keep their own identity separate from the country around them. Drakr today is actively hostile to elves, and due to old animosity with Elfaivar, the few communities of elves in Crisillyir often aggressively embrace the Clergy’s faith as a shield against bigotry.