Editing Elf subraces (section)

== World of Darkness ==
The [[World of Darkness]] had a whole line of games dedicated to just elves called Changeling, so elf races became like character classes. That wouldn't be so bad, but then came all the splatbooks with a [[Mary_Sue|special new kinds]] of elf, oh noes.

=== Old World of Darkness ===

OWoD's Changeling line was subtitled "[[Changeling: The Dreaming|The Dreaming]]".

* Boggans are dreams of hearth and home.
* Eshu are dreams of wanderlust and adventure.
* Nockers are dreams of the neverending quest for industrial creation and perfection.
* Pooka are dreams of animal curiosity and trickery.
* Redcaps are dreams of hunger.
* Satyrs are dreams of passion.
* Sidhe are dreams of beauty and nobility; many houses (read subtypes) of nobility, such as nobility in warfare, or dictatorial rule, exist.
* Sluagh are dreams of secrets and things that go bump in the night.
* Trolls are dreams of honor and duty.
* Clurichaun are Leprechauns.
* Piskies are pixie tricksters.
* Selkies are water nymphs.
* Gillhe Dhu are Celtic dryads.
* Nunnehi ae injun elves.
* Menehue are Hawaiian elves
* Adhene are extradimensional elves too good for hiding like Changelings do.
* Hsien are [[Weeaboo|AZN]] elves.

=== New World of Darkness, "The Lost" ===
In NWoD's [[Changeling: The Lost]], the [[player characters]] aren't elves themselves, nor elves-hiding-as-humans like the previous game, but humans who were kidnapped by elves, twisted to adapt, and then escaped back to the real world; their goal is not to sneer on mundanes or escape reality, but to rejoin it while seeking to prevent the True Fae from coming back into the universe (although it should be noted that it's theorized that the above is part of the True Fae ''reproduction process'').There are six classes of elf they could be adapted to, each with around twelve sub-species, for a total of '''seventy-one''' different kinds of elf that the escaped humans could resemble, each with their own unique appearance and abilities. In addition, there is a merit allowing a person to take a second subspecies (which did not even have to be of the main species you chose), thus upping the character setups by a combinatorial expansion. Jesus fucking Christ. Note that there wasn't a personality associated with each kind of species as well, so not all Fairest were necessarily snobbish elitists, etc.