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DRAGON LORE

The Dragon Elves

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Kevin Buntin

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Introduction

Are you bored with the usual

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About the Author

Kevin Buntin currently resides

within the wilds of Troy, Ohio,

with his beautiful wife, brilliant

stepdaughter, and one very ec-

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Of the various and exotic sub-spe-

cies of the race collectively known

as “Elves”, the most unusual, by far,

are the people known simply as the

Draconic Elves. The Draconic Elves

also posses many of the abilities and

characteristics of many other previ-

ously cataloged dragon related sub-

species, however, despite the fact that

there appears to be no difference be-

tween the Draconic Elves and many

of the other groups, it is undeniable

that they are indeed quite differ-

ent in many respects from all other

dragon descended races. Primarily

this is due to the fact that they have

become a proper species due to the

fact that there was an actual cohabi-

tation with the dragons themselves,

for they came to these speciic Elven

Houses as Elves themselves, their

lines and their blood intermingling-

this act even changing those irst

elves with whom the dragons sired

their children upon. The end result of

this union of body and spirit between

these ancient Elven Houses and the

various dragons was the evolution of

not just a new species of Elf but also

a new and cohesive society which

bore this marked characteristic of

the profound genetic and spiritual

connection the Elves now bore with

their Draconic ancestor(s), and this

has proved to be far stronger than

any of other Draconic classes and/or

races.

The Draconic Elves are rather rare-

the irst of these people having de-

scended from one of seven original

Elven Houses. Although initially,

the very irst of the Draconic Elves

were descended from only one El-

ven House (who were but one fam-

ily among many others belonging

originally to an ancient Elven Na-

tion, collectively known today only

as the Eleven Elven Clans) they now

consist of seven distinct Houses, de-

scended from one of each of ive dif-

ferent dragon species. This original

Draconic Elven family is known

still today, and they are

the Galanodels of

the

great

woodland nation known as Talamh

Tearmann, which is the homeland to

all Draconic Elves now. The names

of the other ancient families and

Houses are known only within the

far away woodland stronghold of

these unusual Elven people. They

exist on the very edge of the frontier

lands: an ancient people in a new

and mostly untamed realm.

all Elf sub-species descended, how-

ever this leaves at least two Houses

without descendant species, and four

Houses are known to have never left

the ancient and now lost homeland

of the Eleven Elven Houses. How-

ever, all these latter theories are as

controversial as the Draconic Elves

themselves, and unlike the Draconic

Elves, are largely speculative in na-

ture. The Draconic Elves are the end

result of an ancient pact between

some of the aforementioned Elven

Houses and one representative of

each of the ive good aligned dragon

species, after the dragons had suf-

fered defeat and betrayal by an an-

cient and evil creature, which ap-

pears to have been both demon lord

and dragon, known only as Ddraig

Dubh. This union and the Draconic

Elven Nation itself has at its very

heart this promise made between the

Elves and this long since dissolved

Council of Dragons to avenge the

decimated Human Kingdom of the

Dragon Bound ruled by an obscure

king named Gwrhyr, and the allied

Elven and Dragon nations who had

likewise suffered complete defeat,

and their own near annihilation, at

the hands of this terrible creature

and his vast evil Draconic and orcish

hordes. It is this sacred and ancient

pact that ultimately drives all that the

Draconic Elves do, both as a society

and as individuals- sometimes seem-

The original Eleven Elven Nations

from which the Draconic Elves are

descended are believed to have been

an ancient branch of High Elves, as

most of their social habits and phi-

losophies appeared to match that

of this species- this is especially

evident in the modern day Draconic

Elves themselves. Still, other schol-

ars have even speculated that they

were all descended from a very old

and long since extinct branch of the

mysterious Daoine Sidhe and these

scholars have gone as far as to pro-

pose that it is possible that the Eleven

Elven Nations or Houses have both

the Daoine Sidhe and the High Elven

races mixed within their ancestry.

Still others have gone on to say that

these nearly forgotten Eleven Elven

Houses may have been the actual pro-

genitors of both the aforementioned

sub-species. A small group of schol-

ars have gone even further than this,

and have proposed that these Eleven

Houses are the people from whom

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