Editing Harem Knights: Races (section)

==Elves==
Elves are a race of magically, and craftsmanship adept humanoids with pointed ears and a few biological anomalies. They are divided into a strict caste based society, with everyone's position incredibly, and irrevocably defined from birth, and reinforced constantly both biologically and culturally. Historical accounts of Elvish society, kept by some human monasteries and dwarven holds, state that this was not always the case, but that it happened several centuries ago, around the same time the Chironen appeared in the western lands.

All Elves are bound to their caste, something decided upon their birth, and only tangentially related to their family lines. In fact, elves apparently place far less value on family units than other races do, instead raising children communally amongst their appropriate caste. While this is the "official" line, the truth is that it is something apparently newly imposed, at least as far as the long lived elves are concerned. "Adoption" of children is quite common, and in the lower castes, at least, almost universal, creating surrogate family units whenever possible. Luckily, since genetics plays some role in what caste a person is likely to be, it is not as common as one might expect for a mother or father to be separated from their child.

A built in mechanism against rebellion seems to be the "Berserk" effect that occurs in elves when someone of higher rank than them is killed in their presence, with the violence increasing exponentially the larger the gap in "Dominance". In recorded cases, entire villages have devolved into cannibalistic blood baths when the lord of them died violently before a large crowd. It is suspected that this was the primary cause of the necessity of the massacre in late 1AA during the counter attack upon the elves that had been preying upon /TG/.

More information on the elves is currently unavailable. It is known they have large cities further into their realm, but penetrating the patrols is nearly impossible. The higher castes seem to be trained into being nearly sociopathic, yet loyal to the central state and the caste system above all else. The lower down into the castes you go, the more capable of "free thought" an elf becomes, though they are less capable of "independent thought". That is to say, Higher castes are able to act on their own initiative more often, but seem to be less capable of questioning orders given by those higher up, while those lower down are less able to act on their own, and more capable of accepting new kinds of thought, as well as questioning orders. This part seems to be, primarily, cultural and only reinforced by the pheremonal controls of male elves, and tends to disappear the moment an elf of sufficiently low dominance is removed from elven society.

The Elves are further divided into High and Low varieties. 
; High Elves : approximately six inches taller then Low Elves, and have an olfactory organ at the base of the spine that compels Low Elves to follow their commands. This effect can be resisted, however, should the Low Elf in question be aware of it. 

; Low Elves : Making up the vast majority of Elvish males, and all of female elves found to date, these elves either do not have the organ mentioned above, or have it in a severely stunted state.