For too long have our brethren been slandered and maligned by the wicked and the dishonorable. No more!
Post your favourite things about elves. Pictures, stories, etc...
Personally I love the High Elves from Warhammer Fantasy the best. Everything from their aesthetic, their architecture to their personality to their history (Aenarion was such a badass).
More elven badassery with a Swordmaster of Hoeth.
These warrior monks are trained from birth in the use of their greatswords forged of the finest elven steel.
They slice through the battlefield like the wind and lay waste to the enemies of Ulthuan.
High Elves are masters of arcane magic.
None can rival their mages on field of battle.
It was the high elves who first taught humans the art of magic and founded the imperial college.
My party's got an elf traveling with us and I gotta say, I don't have any complaints.
Long ago, high elven lord from Caledor tamed the dragons and rode to battle on the backs of the fierce beasts.
Dragonriders of Caledor were powerful mages and skilled warriors. Their ferocity was unmatched.
Beleg Cúthalion is the best bro-elf that a retard like Túrin did not deserve.
Naggarothi best elves.
Celebrimbor. An elf so metal that even the Dwarves thought he was great.
Prince Imric a best.
I love elves
And I hate elves
Depends on what take setting has on them
The fact that I love them in those where they're cool and interesting, makes me hate them even more in settings where they're not
Does anyone know if there's anything like this but better written?
Fingolfin best elf. Feanor a shit.
Love elves that have a sort of alien appearance that make them standout from humans.
Hate elves that pretty much just look like attractive humans with pointy ears.
Tolkien got that part straight from norse mythology though
And technically it's humans who are ugly elves since they only appeared after elves had already lived for several thousand years
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caledor dragontamer was the only good elf
THE ONLY GOOD ELF
Why do people like elves? They're rude and try to be a dick to everyone.
>and try to be a dick to everyone.
some people may like dicks
>liking rude people
Are you a masochist?
They are the true heros of the world who never get credit for it, with sick hats. They faced chaos directly and found a way to keep in undercontrol
>you will never be a glorious Asur
>try to be a dick to everyone
Where are you getting this from?
They taught humans the art of magic and basically saved the world. Is that what you call being a dick?
Note when I say this, before the HE built the vortex, demons where able to walk around the mortal plane like it was no thang
Socialists say we can't like badass princes and brainwash up into saying they are fuccbois, but the truth is quite the contrary
>saved the world
From what?
Imagine being a lithe, agile, tall, norseman with a glorious mane of hair carving his way through vile orcs with such grace that it looks more like a dance than an actual fight.
That is fucking awesome. It's just just watching two fencers go at it and one guy disarms the other with a flawless and fluid flick of his wrist.
I'm not one for "raaagh brute force SMASH!" as it just seems lazy, all weapons can be handled with tact or skill.
The chaos daemons that were raping reality you thunder cuck. The ones who the lizards couldn't deal with'
Remember that whfb elves and any race is a thousand times cooler than anything in most fantasy settings
Chaos.
So that means I should be extremely supportive of them because they're my "greatest ally"
Im not a elf person, but I have to say he had mayor balls of steel to not only challenge Morgoroth, but call him coward to his face. Plus inflicting him seven greavous wounds
Yes! I want an elf to insult me and step on me!
1-They are busy with their retarded forset kin and corrupted evil kin
2- Humans and lizards and dorfs are cunts most the time
3-Why would you work with people who don't understand sweet hats?
Who is humanity's greatest ally in your opinion?
I like my Elves to be good at making fedorabots
Dwarves, duh.
>wanting sweet hats as a thing to wear
Humanity, of course :^)
Best elf coming through
Fingolfin getting killed gives a bit of perspective in how powerful Morgoth was and how pitifully weak Sauron was by comparison. He was THE most powerful elf-lord, far more than any of the high elven royalty left by the third age. He got so mightily pissed everyone in Angband thought he was a god. Even then, Morgoth only needs to hit him three times and then literally crush him
By comparison, Sauron got defeated out of hand by Orome's literal dog in the first age and then by Elrond and Isildur at the prime of his power. Granted, one was a half elf and the other was fucking 8 feet tall Numenorean, but it's still pretty undignified
Power must not mean prowess in combat.
Poast elf/human romance!
The only good elf is a dead one. DEUS VULT
>killing elves
>not telling them to fuck off
I don't like elves but that's crude.
Hi Virt.
We missed you.
I can never decide which one of you I hate more.
Well, yes. Sauron's only a Maia, and more of a smith and strategist than a warrior since he originally served Aule. But Morgoth's thing was that he had a bit of the powers of all of the rest of the Ainur
In fact Aule's Maiar must be really fucking shoddy since Saruman was one too
>putting a penis in an elf
>killing elf
Come on, choice is obvious
One of my absolute favorite characters was a gestalted Witch (of Strength)-Rogue build at 14th level. She was old, very old. Old enough that she had to offset her penalties by using every strength and con booster to be at barely sustainable levels (her dex and Int were extraordinary, and she had a fair charisma score because of her age).
The GM rolled for level of wealth and society standing. She turned out to be the owner of a good sized mountain and the neighboring forest. So I decided she had spent the last three or four centuries mining for diamonds and silver in the mountain, and exacting tribute from the gnolls and caravans that passed through her forest. She was a kind of genius loci - her stealth was near preternatural without using magic, and when she used magic, she could eviscerate small armies by herself (the claws hex and misfortune hex, combined with greater invisibility and sneak attack and the self-buff spells from the cleric list that witch of strength gains....she was a literal murder machine).
She resumed adventuring because the party passed through her land and managed to defeat an adult dragon by themselves (she managed to get a baleful polymorph on the dragon's mate, unbeknownst to the party), so she started tagging along and helping from the shadow, becoming their "guardian spirit."
sometimes playing rediculously old characters is a hell of a lot of fun. You get to claim a lot of their mechanical benefits are just 'wisdom and experience' instead of high skills and class abilities. The party had no idea what my classes were.
My man Fingolfin. No mortal was ever stronger.
I hate Elf/human shippers infinitely more than I hate elf haters.
At least the haters aren't depraved degenerates that want to fuck members of another species.
>implying the haters don't commit necrophilia and bestiality
Stop projecting your horrible fetishes onto other people.
Why the fuck would anyone have sex with the dead?
How about we keep talking about elves instead of letting the thread derail into sex?
>that want to fuck members of another species.
That's just natural. I hate them because their elves are just one-dimensional waifus with no interesting qualities or character that fall for the self-insert human for no reason. They will mold those elves into this regardless of the setting, like making the Eldar not freakishly tall or alien like in that pic the guy posted.
Elves are basically humans user. As are dwarves and halflings etc etc
All the nonhuman races just represent different facets of humanity. Elves just got all the best genes: tall, beautiful, intellegent. The other races kinda got shafted...
i just realised that the slannesh symbol hanging between his horns looks like a little scowly face.
Yeah.
I hate people who insist that Eldar are just pretty humans, because of some bad fanart (and even official art), when Eldar have consistently been described as tall, and sorta freaky looking, in their codexes. I am not saying that they are total ayy lmaos, just that they look different and outlandish enough from humans, that you can clearly tell that THEY ARE NOT HUMAN just by looking at them.
The Art may be inconsistent, as it often is with GW, regardless of the race, but the way the Eldar and Dark Eldar codexes themselves DESCRIBE them, has stayed consistent for years. Out of all the fan artists, picture related captures the way the Eldar are described to look like the best.
Beckjann best man
Seriously he should be making the covers and art for nearly everything Eldar-related. Literally the only one that shows them as they should be shown.
This is seriously creepy
good hob beckjann
How is that creepy or alien? He looks like perfect husbando material.
>Elves are basically humans user
Not in all settings.
You are not fooling anyone knife ear
Nobody said that the Eldar can't be attractive. What was said is that they look clearly not human, despite having generally similar appearance. Note the high cheekbones, somewhat elongated face, sharp features, and eyes that seem more akin to ones of a predatory bird.
Beckjann manages to hit the uncanny valley look they are described to have pretty well.
Generally, if an Eldar artwork features the Eldar with soft, very round, or otherwise "cute" facial features, it is doing something wrong.
Eldar faces are consistently described as having sharp features, across the sexes.
>knife ear
Is that a compliment, spoon-ear? Is it because of an elf's sharp hearing, or because their long pointed ears are attractive and treasured like knives are?
That literally looks just like a generic D&D elf.
If she dresses like that, I can't imagine there would be any complaints.
Yes, and?
I don't give two shits about what elves look like in shite like D&D. What is relevant, is that beckjann's artwork is accurate to the way the Eldar are described looking like.
What about the original Tolkien elves? They weren't waifus. I mean Feanor and Fingolfin and other elves were actually interesting. Sure some elven women have went with humans but only two of them I think Beren and Luthen, and Aragon but Aragon was the king and such, also it's not really dwelt on. And in Warhammer Fantasy no human would EVER get an elf waifu the High Elves would rather kill themselves than fuck what is basically an animal to them.
The Dark Elves might but they are fucked up degenerates and the human probably would not like the fucking that happens.
And I was just commenting on how it looks like a fairly good piece of D&D elf art.
Reminder that the Slann did half the work on the magic side of things.
But also a reminder that one of the abandoned plot points was the greatest Elf mages being aware of the Slann and working with them intentionally.
>Beren and Luthen
It's my headcanon, but I always thought that Beren was a pretty elfish guy. He learned the language of the birds, or was it of all animals of the woods? He survived in the woods. And back then humans and elves were of equal power. And in general seemed to be a pretty cool guy. So this story isn't like those greentext fanfictions in which the elf falls in love with some ordinary human.
Elves and Dwarfs gave as much as each other.
I'd argue Vampires though. They kept mankind strong and united, while the Lahmians did actually save the Empire quite a bit in secret in order to keep the status quo.
>At least the haters aren't depraved degenerates that want to fuck members of another species.
People like...you, are...exactly why we cannot...have nice, things.
We're talking about Elves, dumbass.
Not your space mary sue faggots.
They also fucked up the world and let Chaos win.
Thanks Manfred.
Perhaps a really noble and feminine Bretonian Knight and a Wood Elf
>And in Warhammer Fantasy no human would EVER get an elf waifu the High Elves would rather kill themselves than fuck what is basically an animal to them.
That's completely non-canon fanfiction straight out of 40k, there are half-Elves mentioned in Gotrek and Felix and Teclis himself was shagging human twins.
Elves are mentioned constantly living in just about any human city on the coast.
No, the problem is your ilk, who can't stop themselves from fetishising fucking everything. You people are the reason we originally got the nazi mod here. Stay the fuck in /d/.
Eldar were brought into the topic here, you blind retarded faggot.
Vlad would make empire great again.
He would be literally the best emperor since Sigmar
>feminine Bretonian Knight and a Wood Elf
Am I reading this right? Do you think wood elves are not as metal as the other warhammer elves?
Mannfred is the biggest fuckup in any Warhammer. Which is kind of sad because he was pretty awesome in 7e fluff.
Shit, even in Age of Sigmar his attempt at "rebellion" is full-retard.
The character is the epitome of Flanderization in a tabletop game.
Early humans in general are very Elf-like. Anything that parallels our pre-Rome history.
Look at Bard. Dude was the last person alive who could talk to a thrush, and that little fuck flew into an inferno of death to tell him to ATTACK ITS WEAK POINT FOR MASSIVE DAMAGE.
Numenor is basically Greece.
Are those novels questionable when it comes to canon like wh40k novels?
I'd say Thanqual and Failbaddon are bigger fuck ups than Manfred. After all Manfred managed to do what Abbadon couldn't do for 13 tries. He managed to destroy the world. Also his voice in Warhammer total war makes him sound like a drooling retard.
You replied to shitposting, you're still off-topic.
Ushoran's plan was better but he made the mistake of forgetting Nehekharan royalty are spiteful (wo)manchildren.
But yeah, Vlad was good in theory. But you forget he'd probably have appointed Konrad and Mannfred in charge of provinces, so the only good Vlad would be one after those two are out of the picture.
>You will never get a campaign between Emperor Vlad and Mannfred the Usurper
They are the most savage and strange of all the elves.
But they like Brettonians for some reasons.
Perhaps because they have elven blood.
also is this 9th age art? Looks familiar enough
I know that feel, I thought Manfred was going to be a great leader that will finally realise they need to team up with Empire against chaos.
And then he juist started stealing elf princesses,propably to drink their period blood
>Thanqual
His enitre thing is that he is a failure,but he can explain himself.
Sadly, the best Wood Elf characterization came from the 9th Age Sylvan Elves.
Wood Elves in the Warhammer lore just come across as hick voodoo High Elves.
>it's shitposting if I don't like the subject matter.
Eldar are relevant to an elf thread, you obtuse asswipe. They are frigging Space Elves.
>Ushoran's plan
First time I heard about this. What was it?
> have appointed Konrad and Mannfred in charge of provinces,
Even he knew Konrad was mad,he kept him around mostly for laughs. Manfred was powerhungry,but court intrigue happens in normal Empire too
No. Gotrek and Felix is the backbone of Warhammer Fantasy, and were published until the very end of the game. The exploits of the two are referenced constantly in Army Books.
The writer later on said he regretted using "lusts for Half-Elf women" as Snorri Whitebeard's personality quirk, but it was never made non-canon and the plot of one of the primary stories hinged on Teclis and the twins.
I heard that Elven women are very bitchy, and super high maintenance so they probably wouldn't go for a human. As for elven males, I'll grant that however men do have higher standards than women and since human women are much easier than elven women I can see elven men going for them. Hell in our history European sailors fucked Aboriginal women.
You serious mate? I will say Vlad is a pretty good vampire, and may not be a bad leader. However I don't think he'd be better than Magnus, or Karl Franz, or even Mandred Skaven Slayer.
No they are cannon just like 40k novels.
Don't the Wood Elves basically steal Bretonian babbies and shit?
To my understanding, they are the most fae like elves of Warhammer elves.
I miss the frogs
Sometimes they slaugher entire Brettonian villages because it was raining,sometimes they come out of their forests and help Brettonians in battle.
I never read much about either of this factions so I might be wrong,but they are basically in love-hate relationship
>They are the true heros of the world
You're talking about the same race that enslave and torture humans.
Ushoran went to a kingdom, its arguable what the parallel is but generally just something Eastern European, called Mourkain and made friends with the Necromancy-obsessed king.
Ushoran created a stable vampire kingdom where humans and vampires have equal rights, killing a citizen is against the law and vampires feed on criminals or volunteers.
When the king went mad Ushoran deposed him in a way he couldn't resurrect from then kept building the kingdom strength. He eventually sent invitations to all the other wayward vampire bloodlines to join him in his new utopia, but the very first vampire and his cousin, Queen Neferata, was insulted because she saw it as an invitation to be his subordinate.
So she alerted the newborn Empire to his kingdom, which went on a Germanic crusade to wipe it out. Meanwhile, another bloodline lead by the old captain of Neferata's guard, Abhorash, had fought their way through Orc lands and caused a massive WAAAGH that went to the non-nomadic vampires in Mourkain.
Meanwhile, the head of another bloodline (that had been helping Ushoran tame magical artifacts of the first necromancer) named W'soran had gone slightly insane and was planning on backstabbing Ushoran and tricked him into putting on a crown that increased his power but made him emotionally imbalanced.
So the vampires and Mourkainians fought against the Orcs and the Empire while also fending off the growing madness from the Crown of Command affecting them. Eventually the city was broken, and everyone fled.
The Strigoi vampires went insane and began eating meat from graveyards to survive, mutating them into part-bat savages. The humans of Mourkain became the Strigany AKA Gypsies who are hated everywhere they go, or followed the vampires and also ate corpses and became Ghouls.
Thats Dark Elves. The Dark Elves also capture and torture High Elves worse. Also High Elves frequently make it their mission to kill the fuck out of every Dark Elf they can find. At least until the fuck up that was the end times with Malekith the motherfucker becoming king of all elves. Honestly they should have stuck to lore and had a male mage kill him as that was his destiny.
Ushoran himself continued to fall into madness alone, until one day he saved a bunch of Strigany and lead them like Moses back to Mourkain to rebuild. That plot was dropped though, next we see him is Age of Sigmar where he has lead humans and vampires from all over reality into his contagious aura-like self-delusion where naked snarling Ghouls fighting over an Ogre's intestines instead see each other as knights digging into a feast as friends.
The first necromancer is now the god of death and the afterlife, and everyone is trying to find Ushoran because they can use him to control the massive bands of Ghouls everywhere.
Ushoran himself is just spreading his madness everywhere he can, finding all the lost and scattered humans and vampires hiding from Chaos and uniting them into gigantic hordes driven only by hunger and the desire to be respectable again.
tl;dr Romanian King Lear.
I know I enjoy me some elf lovin'. The way those knife-ears squeal as I ram my colossal master race cock down their holes is just glorious.
There are no Elves in 40k. 40k cannot be Elf relevant.
Pic related?
So that's how they went to shit
I like how he managed to get fucked by every bloodline but the Carsteins