Moon Elves

• Two arms, two legs, pointed ears slightly longer and narrower than other elves, with tips that sometimes curve gently.
• Their skin carries micro-reflective cells that capture and scatter moonlight, giving them a faint glistening aura on clear nights.
• Heartbeat slows noticeably under moonlight, syncing with lunar pulses.

• Moon Phasing: Subtle changes in energy and demeanor tied to lunar cycles. Under full moons, their magic flares powerfully; under new moons, they turn inward, reflective and sometimes melancholy.
• Lunar Dreaming: Many experience vivid prophetic dreams or shared dreams during certain lunar alignments.

• Reproduction similar to other elves, with gestation lasting ~13 months.
• Children born under specific lunar phases are sometimes touched by unique gifts — such as stronger illusions, charm, or dreamwalking abilities.

• Children until ~50, adolescence until ~110, adult maturity at ~130.
• Their magical attunement often continues to deepen into their third or fourth century.

• Prefer shadowed groves, mossy glades, moonstone caves, and regions where starlight filters through leaves.
• Build homes among giant fungi, luminous flowers, or living trees that blossom only under the moon.

• Eat fruits, mooncap mushrooms, nuts, nectar, and occasional small game blessed under ritual moon hunts.
• Brew delicate teas from silverleaf and duskrose that heighten dreams and prophetic sight.

Energy ebbs and flows with lunar phases. During eclipses or rare celestial events, many enter deep trances or communal dream-rites.

• Soft-spoken, favor gentle diplomacy, but will weave powerful illusions or wards if threatened.
• Value subtle maneuvering over direct confrontation.

• Organized into Glades of Reflection, each guided by a Moonward (spiritual elder who interprets dreams and lunar omens).
• Gather monthly under the full moon for The Silver Moot, where disputes are settled by storytelling, dance, and shared dream recounting.

• Finer facial features with slightly longer noses and large luminous eyes that seem always on the verge of a quiet smile or thoughtful sadness.
• Eyelashes often silver or dark as night.

• Finer facial features with slightly longer noses and large luminous eyes that seem always on the verge of a quiet smile or thoughtful sadness.
• Eyelashes often silver or dark as night.

Highly intelligent, philosophical, with minds well-tuned to abstraction, metaphor, and symbolic thinking.

• Excellent night vision, can see faint traces of residual magic (as drifting silver motes).
• Sensitive to emotional auras, especially under moonlight.
• Many can dreamwalk — entering and subtly influencing the dreams of others

• Prefer flowing, melodic names often tied to night imagery:
• Examples: Serelune, Thalosin, Mirea, Nyvalen, Vaelisar.
• Family names often tied to moon phases or night flora:
• Examples: Elanthir (“moon bloom”), Duskaris (“of the shadowed glade”).

• Value luminous skin and hair, delicate flowing silhouettes.
• Intricate braids set with tiny glowing beads or bioluminescent blossoms are popular.

• Gender is seen as fluid and shifting like the moon, with different aspects embraced during different life stages or lunar seasons.

• Bonds often formed during shared dream quests or moonlit rituals.
• Multiple long, overlapping relationships are common, viewed as a way to weave richer dream tapestries.

• Mastery of illusion magics, lunar wards, and dream craft.
• Architecture grown from moon-fed flora and bio-luminous fungi.
• Use delicate filigree lanterns powered by stored moonlight.

• Speak a softer dialect of Sylvanelle, laced with tonal sighs and lilting cadence.

• Greetings involve lightly touching foreheads or temples to share a breath — called a “Whispered Moon.”
• Never force direct eye contact; they see it as aggressive outside of intimate bonds.

• Wear flowing robes and mantles of dusk-hued silks or shadow velvet, sometimes inlaid with faintly glowing threads that shimmer under moonlight.
• Adornments often include silver circlets or small crystal droplets that pulse with subtle internal light.

• Hold great Dream Gatherings, where entire glades join in spellbound slumber to share collective visions.
• Create ephemeral art of light illusions or dances performed atop giant mooncap mushrooms.

• Moonrise Gatherings:
• At dusk, moon elves gather in quiet glades or atop glowing mushrooms to sing low harmonies that welcome the rising moon and attune local ley flows.
• Dream Sharing:
• Regularly enter shared slumber circles where dreams intertwine, allowing them to explore collective visions, heal emotional wounds, or receive subtle prophecies.
• Silver Moots:
• Monthly councils held under the full moon where disputes are settled not by debate, but through storytelling, dance, and symbolic illusions that reveal hidden truths.
• Eclipse Vigils:
• During lunar eclipses, entire glades sit in silence, faces painted with silver dust, reflecting on personal shadows and guiding them into gentle transformation.
• Night Feasts:
• Banquets of mooncap mushrooms, starpetal nectar, and luminous fruit are held on nights of strong lunar tides, often followed by ephemeral illusion performances that tell old myths.
• Veil Dances:
• Delicate dances performed in filmy robes under moonlight, creating flowing patterns that mimic water and mist—often used to honor departed loved ones.

• Consider it deeply shameful to interrupt another’s dream sharing.
• Using illusions to deceive kin maliciously is one of their gravest crimes.