![]() ![]() The Dwarves have a far more important social secret: the existence of loremasters. The Dwarves have a technological secret: the firearms borne by the Thunderguard unit line. (Sources: The South Guard, The Legend of Wesmere.) Elvish legend hints that it is gradually declining. The propensity to walk the faerie path runs in families, generally passing through the female line. For those far down the faerie path, even proximity to cold iron is disturbing. They pay a price, however on the faerie path, contact with ferrous metals becomes increasingly painful to elves, and disrupts their magic. The higher magics of healing, clairvoyance, and life-shaping are open to them some (almost always females) become physically transformed and develop faerie wings. ![]() Elves on the path of earth can handle steel and cold iron, but the higher Elvish magics are barred to them.Ī few elves walk the path of faerie. Many elves, in fact, do not have the choice to walk the path of faerie it is these "earthbound" elves who are closest to humans in nature, and the rare phenomenon of elf-human matings is almost confined to them. ![]() There are two life paths an elf can take, the "path of earth" and the "path of faerie" which they go down is partly inheritance and partly choice. The elves conceal a central fact about themselves: the extent to which they partake of the faerie nature, the energy that is the source of Elven magic, varies greatly - so much so that it actually affects their biology. This is why the Wesnothians themselves broke the compact during the war with the orcs that followed, a deed the royal house has never publicly explained and never quite lived down. The royal house of Wesnoth remembers that the Elves planned to betray the alliance they made with Haldric the Great soon after he landed on the Great Continent. Secret Lore of Wesnoth Secrets of the Humans ![]()
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