Leyline Eladrin

• Humanoid: Two arms, two legs, with slightly longer limbs and tapered fingers ending in nail-like claws of crystal or living wood.
• Muscular & Skeletal: Light, slightly hollow bones, aiding agility. Tendons resonate faintly with magic—leyline-charged vitality literally pulses through them.
• Other Features: Ears more elongated and curving than other elves, often adorned with natural growths (tiny blossoms, frost crystals, flame sparks, or vines depending on their leyline).

• Each leyline season shapes emotional baseline and typical magical talents.
• Spring: Passionate, curious, life-bringing magic.
• Summer: Bold, fiercely protective, destructive sun or fire magics.
• Autumn: Thoughtful, harvesting & decay magics, manipulation of transitions.
• Winter: Calm or aloof, frost and preservation magics, mastery of stillness.
• Minor gender dimorphism; females tend to have slightly sharper cheekbones and more luminous eyes, males broader shoulders.

• Reproduce sexually like other elves, with occasional rare asexual budding in leyline hotspots (sprouting from arcane blooms or frost mounds, a magical phenomenon more than true biology).
• Gestation ~10 months, children born already subtly marked by their leyline’s color.
• Offspring always attune to one parent’s leyline or to the dominant local leyline if born during rare convergence surges.

• Childhood lasts ~30 years; reach adolescence by ~50.
• Mature at ~80-100 years.
• Maintain prime until ~500, then gradually fade, becoming more elemental in appearance. Some eventually dissolve into leyline motes, returning energy to the land.

• Thrive in areas dense with leyline intersections—hidden glades, crystalline caves, volcanic calderas, frost-hung groves.
• They sculpt these places, living in symbiosis with natural flows, planting gardens that amplify their season.

• Omnivorous, but favor foods that resonate with their season (e.g. Spring eladrin adore fruits & nectar, Winter eladrin favor cold-smoked meats).
• Many partially photosynthesize or draw mana directly from leyline-charged soil during trance-like meditation.

• Unlike typical Eldarin, they do not change season. They are bound by the leyline season they are born attuned too.

• Generally peaceful among each other but fiercely territorial toward leyline corruption or imbalance.
• Predators avoid them due to the strange taste of their mana-infused blood.
• Often intervene magically to defend their territories from monstrous encroachment.

• Typically gather in small seasonal enclaves. Each enclave is semi-autonomous but sends representatives to leyline moots where major decisions are made.
• Older eladrin become “Anchors,” tying the enclave to the local leyline through living rituals.

They are found wherever strong leyline flows exist on Mythralune. Spring enclaves cluster in flower-choked forests, Summer in volcanic or sun-drenched hills, Autumn in misty woods and fungus-laden glens, Winter in frost-bitten highlands or glacier caves.

They are highly intelligent (on par or slightly above other elves), with a heavy focus on arcane theory, natural philosophy, and artistic expression.

• Keen low-light and color vision extending slightly into ultraviolet.
• Can “feel” leyline pulses beneath their feet and taste magic in the air.
• Some develop minor clairvoyance or dreamwalking tied to their leyline.

• Mutualistic relationships with Sporetails, frost moths, ember lizards, and various leyline-touched plants.
• Parasitized occasionally by mana-leeches that attempt to tap their leyline connection.

• Names often musical or nature-inflected. Examples:
• Spring: Lyravel, Petalis, Verian
• Summer: Cindrel, Pyran, Solmera
• Autumn: Rusathiel, Marcesen, Ocrinna
• Winter: Glacienne, Thalvar, Eirath
• Family names usually tie to local features (e.g. “of the Thorned Hollow”).

Deeply monogamous bonds are common, but so are seasonal trysts meant to strengthen leyline flows—seen as sacred acts rather than betrayals.

• Speak Eladrin.
• Each seasonal enclave has unique poetic flourishes in language tied to local flora and phenomena.

• It is rude to step across someone’s shadow (believed to disrupt leyline harmony).
• Gifts are often living things—flowers, enchanted seeds, small flame wisps.

• Rich traditions of weaving leyline strands into tapestries that literally hum with magic.
• Each enclave maintains a “Leychant,” a ritual song that keeps local leylines healthy.

• Seasonal festivals align with leyline surges.
• Coming-of-age marked by a vigil atop leyline nexus stones where the youth communes with the flow.

• Ancient Era: Born when Aurenos’s arcane creation seeded the world’s leylines; the first eladrin sprung from these veins.
• Age of Dawnlight: Helped stabilize leyline flows after catastrophic wild surges.
• Modern Age: Enclaves cautiously engage with other races, wary of industrial disruptions to leyline health.

• Generally cooperative with druids and other fey. Wary of dwarven mining clans and human expansion that might disrupt leylines.