Help me come up with some unusual kinds of elves for my heroes to stumble upon Veeky Forums...

hellboy elfs with a golden army.

Silly elves who need to learn to dress right.

>European elves
>Asian elves
>Australian elves
>AMERIKKUN ELVES

Sun elves
Moon elves
Red elves
Blue elves
Fle evles

Give me the cliffnote version of Hellboy elves, I am intrigued

arse-elves
the most unusual kind

Unusual wear is practically a given

Looking to do something a bit more alien than national expys

I am intrigued about whatever "Fle Elves" could mean.

Do they live in arses? Have big arses? Perhaps it's a misunderstanding entirely and they are actually "arson elves", who set fires.

It is just elf and elves backwards.

The old Pathfinder rulebook had this thing where it talks about how because elves live so long, instead of adapting over generations to their environment they slowly adapt themselves, which is why drow and the like are a separate subspecies entirely instead of just a skin color, since over the generations they're adapting harder than a regular mortal race.

With that kind of concept in mind, play up that with crazy fantasy environments. Ash-white Lava Elves who live on volcanic islands and use magic to build their homes as close to the sacred magma as possible? Go for it. Vaguely amphibious salamander-esque Swamp Elves with the beginnings of subdermal poison glands? Make it so. Rail-thin, almost ethereal floating Space Elves? Why the fuck not?

Hell, think of even more ridiculous fantasy environments. What the fuck does an elf who lives in a magic dungeon crystal cave, or in a demiplane inside the stomach of a giant monster look like? That's for you to decide.
This is also good.

I do like those lava elves and swamp elves.

Killyours Elves.

I don't feel like suicidal elves would be able to stay competitive enough in their environment to be around when adventurers visit. Unless maybe they're encased in amber or something?

loli elfs
with animal ears

Elves are lewd, they are not a proud and noble race

I've got short elves already. I don't really understand how you could have loli elves unless they have short lifespans where they die off shortly after hitting teenage years, and perhaps mature past infancy at a very rapid pace.

Short elfs that somewhat resemble human children, unable to understand evil intentions or feel negative emotions towards another living being. Natural empaths. But go goebbels on undead and demons/demonbloods.

Make them ugly, this is guaranteed to be at least somewhat original.

Gas mask elves

The first elves I made were supposed to be ugly but then the guy who discovered them loved how they looked

(Pale, lithe, and entirely hairless)

Frakass elves.

Alien elves that left behind a bunch of relics and then disappeared/ went extinct

Irish/Germanic fairies with a penchant for murder and making self-repairing golem armies.

>(Pale, lithe, and entirely hairless)

that a scholar taste right here.

Elves that are weeaboos, but for humans.
Elves that are weeaboos, but for other elves.
A specific village of elves has been cursed by a lich for eternity - an elven maiden spurned his calcium enriched advances, and in his anger, the lich cursed an entirely unrelated elven village. Now, those elves are biologically immortal. The slightest hint of romantic inclination will turn them bright red, and making love will initiate an excruciatingly painful death. Theirs is a tragic story, but a curable one, should you persuade the lich to release them!
Elves that are made up of smaller elves.
A gestalt elf hive mind.
Elves that feed on the magic of love - a specific kind, only produced when engaged in mutually consensual snuggling.
Elves that are like people, but nicer, and they just want everyone to be happy.
Elves that are mean, and pull nasty pranks, but don't actually want to hurt anyone. They're just upset about all the ear jokes.
Elves that are obsessed with being the most elf-like of all elves.
Merchant elves that are obsessed with economic domination, and must control the markets, using compound interest and their long lives to their fullest advantage.
Smoke elves. Elves that just get high all the time.
Elves that have wings, but aren't harpies or angles. They just have wings, because some wizard thought it'd be pretty cool, and (being elves) their government wasn't doing anything fun with its budget, so he really sold the king on this whole "give everyone a mandatory set of wings" project. Public reception was mixed but has since turned relatively positive as architecture and furniture has been redesigned to accommodate them.
Elves that just want to be themselves, man.

Here's an a actual answer since most of these appear to be shit

Make note of the many different types of fairy, wee folk, or spirit creature in mythology. Remember that elf was a generic term for such beings and could apply to almost all of them, like "yokai" for Japs. Then proceed to generate phenotypes from this.

This means you can have just about any type of elf

Water elf
Fire elf
Wood elf
Air elf
Stone elf
Light elf
Dark elf
Small elf
Giant elf
House elf
Wilds elf

I'll workshop some ideas when I get home

The man

The legend

Divinity original sin 2 elves

office elves
virus elves
road elves
inflation elves
law elves
assistant elves
language elves
construction elves
climate elves
paper elves
hat elves
anxiety elves

>Bitches about the rest
>Comes up with the most generic shit ever
Drink paint and die in a corner, will you?

mossy elves probably
since in popular culture elves are supposed to be "in-tune with nature", may as well make them look the part. Covered in plants, bark, fungi and the like would definitely set them apart, although to what extent I have no idea.

Would easily fit them in a druidic/sagacious role though.

>anxiety elves
My spirit elf.

Elven elf.

porn star elves
maid elves
demon elves
lewd elves

Sounds like Shadowrun.

Gangster Mafia/Yakuza elves that have been pulling the strings behind every organized crime operation since the dawn of civilization.

Elves that can only be seen when you don't look directly at them

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I would guess that Killyours Elves are actually bullies who force to have everyone else commit suicide

Water Elves are greenesh blue skinned elves that live on underwater cities on lakes, rivers and even under the sea, they use water magic and are able to breath underwater.

Wood Elves that use nature magic to the extreme, turning their own bodies into half-plant weirdos

Fire Elves are a blood red, warrior race of elves that rides drakes and lives in rocky valleys

Deep Elves are pale white underground stoneseers, users of earth magic, they are reclusive and xenophobic

Steel Elves lost almost all connection to the land and to magic, developing advanced metal workings and technology. They believe that all other Elves are savages and tarnished by ritual magic and are hated by all other Elven races.

Good taste.

Blood Elves are the best.

How about elves that begin their life cycles as large grubs that pupate after a couple years into big, insectoid monstrosities which devour the flesh of whatever they can catch, which in turn moult at about the age of seventy into the shape people associate with elves? The insectoid stage builds homes deep in the forests by excreting a sap-like substance that quickly hardens, and the humanoid stage is the one that deals with humans and work to endear themselves to those in power, as eating sapient beings reduces the time before the insectoid stage can moult. The humanoids are also capable of using magic, which corrupts the forests where they live into wild, haunted places unsafe for men to walk, which both hides the greater part of elven society and makes the land more closely resemble their home in whatever fairyland they come from.

Primitive, nomadic elves that wield weapons made of bone, wood, and stone, with a slow metabolism. They live in an area with limited plant and animal life, encouraging the development of populace that increases incredibly slowly, and individually requires little food over long periods of time

creatures that are called "tree elves" because their description is "long lived, slow to act bipeds that dwell among the trees."

They're sloths though, but so exceedingly rare that they're built up in folklore. Like Manatee mermaids.

Alternatively make them actually sentient, and they're sloth-like creatures that live in hollow fallen trees like hermit crabs. When they uncurl themselves from inside, they're like 10 feet tall, making them look unnaturally thin.

>Sky Elves.
>Pirate Elves.
>Fey Elves.
>Traditional Elves.
>Lovecraftian Elves.
>Gypsy Elves.
>Edge Lord Elves.
>Native American Elves.
>Water Elves.
>Wind Elves.
>Wizard Elves.
>Bro Elves.
>Asshole Elves.
>Bearded Elves.
>Vulcans
>Interdimensional Elves.
>Chaos Elves.
>Rock Elves.
>90's Elves.
>Eighties Elves.
>Psychedelic Elves.
>Punk Elves.
>Cyber Elves.
>Alien Elves.
>Metrosexual Elves.
>Redneck Elves.
>Fire Elves.
>Sea Elves (my favorite)
>Nordic Elves
>Indian Elves
>Fighting Elves.
>Wild Hunt Elves.
>God Elves.
>Angel Elves.
>Vampire Elves.
>Werewolf Elves.
>Werelphant Elves.
>Werebear Elves.
>Bird Elves.
>Hybrid Elves.
>Dying Elves.
>Doing Alright Elves.
>Dragon Elves.
>Rocking Elves (see eighties Elves variations subsection B)
>Disco Elves.
>Short Elves.
>Grassland Elves.
>Polar Bear Riding Elves.
>Shadow Elves.

>arse-elves
>ar-selves
>ourselves

>GHOULISH GOTH ELVES
Falmer, but with clothes?

Why not do eldar style aspect warriors except their path (autistic obsession) is different kinds of sexual intercourse (as elves are only good for rape)

>Papist crusader elves
>Elemental elves
>Parasite elves - like vampires and such
>Workaholic elves
>Merchant/oligarchic elves
>Artificial elves (homunculus / android / golem)
>The Revolutionary elves
>/d/ elves
>Melancholic elves
>Humble and pure elves
>(extra)Planar elves; their whole society revolves around tools and creatures brought forth from other planes, either permanently or for a limited amount of time. Their growth is cyclical as every now and then some tard summons their doom, and they start over again, somewhere else
>Karmic elves
>The elves without ears

Why not go for your standard cookie-cutter elf? Not much can go wrong there.

House elves
Junk elves
Carny elves
Luckless elves

Purpose bred elves, like dogs

7 foot tall, god forged,muscle bound servant race.

Slime elves
Attic elves
Chauvinistic elves
Bald elves
Slaver elves
Jester elves
Crystal elves; the crystals being magical allow two-way psychic control, given that the crystal ridge is prominent on the skull

I love the Junk elves

Sewer elves.

I have pure blood elfs that are 10-12 foot. Each of their finger segments are 1 foot each. Their shave their ears to make them extra pointy. They move like spiders, their tall thin legs look like that of a famine deer.

They are super racist. Super so vs half elfs.

Elves that go through a metamorphosis; the silk elves. Doesn't have to be gruesome

>MUSCLE ELVES
>T H I C C ELVES
I'm in the process of making a pretty wide hiped shortstacked drow, but everyone I showed my work in progress to said she looks like a goblin, or a gremlin.

How would I stick to that body type, but making her more elvish?

Longer face, long limbs compared to torso.

That's hard. You're kinda mixing established humanoid races and people will probably end up seeing the more common or prevalent race.

Anti-magic/null elves

Accept the fact that you want to play a goblin/imp.

>GHOULISH GOTH ELVES

I like a hybrid of the Nightfallen from WoW and Fallout's Ghouls as a potential Elven race. You could fluff them as a society of ancient elves that delved too deeply into the study of the arcane and blew themselves up. Some of the survivors have retained their personalities and nobility, but most are now feral monsters.

As I remember it, long, long ago they commissioned a goblin smith to build for them a glorious golem army, but vowed not to use them again after realizing their true destructive power. Now, in the modern age, they've been reduced to shadows and ghosts of their former greatness, and some among them believe that their golden army should be used to wipe the slate clean and usher in a new elven age.

Make her less short. Elves are usually assumed to be tall, or at least having a slender build (standard DnD elves are actually shorter than humans, but their lenght to width ratio is higher). If it doesn't have that kind of build, it doesn't really look like an elf.

>Sky elves
Can only breathe rarefied air, so they live in cities suspended by hot air balloons and propellers in the stratosphere. Lost their ability to breathe normal air as a curse when their legendary ancestor smelled the flowers of the forbidden garden of the elven goddess. Very interested in life on the surface, periodically kidnap surface dwellers to experiment on them. The most promising test subjects are sent back to become agents of the sky elves, working to ensure that their existence is never discovered.

>Abyssal Elves
Exiled to the bottom of the sea after a protracted and bloody war with another elven faction. They live in colossal crystal domes, regenerate oxygen for their domes using fungal gardens and light them up with luminescent corals. Came up with sonic weaponry after studying snapping shrimps.

I did this with a bunch of friends once. We were gonna make a great shitpost video. Shame it never did happen.

Surely cowboy/texan elves hasnt been done yet. That would be funny

Rainbow elves, man.

Nobody does this anymore.

>Barefeet elves
This needs to be much more common

Slave Elves

Indian elves are like slaves. Good idea.

I don't have the screen cap on my phone, but I love the concept I saw once where all the elves wore masks. They still had the ethereal beauty thing going on, but every single elf had a number of masks completely unique to them. They all had formal masks, war masks, mourning masks, etc., but every elf could still be uniquely identified by their mask.

No one knows what they look like without masks, maybe they all have the exact same face or maybe they're localized eldritch horrors.

This world doesn't deserve blood elves

If you don't like blood elves, you must be literally gay

I meant they're too good for this world

Aw, but gruesome metamorphosis is the best kind of metamorphosis.

No one cares about your newest Minority-Elves.

Delicious Elves

no doubt

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>Cannibal elves
>Drug-culture elves
>Elves are the urchin-underclass and/or slaves in this city
>Elves are not smart, and are largely farmers
>Elves are considered mutant orcs and are thus disdained by everyone and have to pal around with goblins for friends

Gold elves: Creatures with hair of platinum and skin of gold, and I'm not using a metaphor here. Cast out from the homeland of the primordial elves eons ago for "crimes of avarice" (typical capitalistic business practices, really), they were nearly hunted to extinction for obvious reasons. Since then they have developed a culture of business, industry, and marketing. Gathering massive sums of wealth and influence with every major kingdom. General cultural attitude can best be described as a mix between "Early 1980's stock trader" and "Oil tycoon".

Just pulled this one out of my ass, not the best I'll admit.

I would like to hear more

>Sand Elves
These elves can't breathe air, instead they gain oxygen from sand through special gills under their ears. They're surrounded by a magic aura that allows them to move freely through sand and see with heat vision. Their cities are located at the bottoms of great sandy deserts and as such are completely unknown to the outsiders, but desert caravans have learned to fear sand elves that emerge from the dunes and hunt them for sport.

>Crystal Elves
A magical curse put on their primogenitor as a punishment for idleness makes these elves slowly crystalise throughout their lives, until they eventually turn fully into a crystal statue. As their joints lose mobility, these elves outfit themselves with clockwork exoskeletons that help them move their limbs. The curse gives them a natural affinity with stone, allowing them to see through it and shape masterpieces of stonework with their bare hands.

>Lava Elves
Unable to generate temperature, these elves always need to be near a source of heat to avoid freezing to death. For that reason, they settle around volcanoes, most of which they themselves create with their magic and keep permanently erupting at a slow rate. Obsidian canals of lava flow through their cities, keeping the streets scorchingly hot. These elves are suitably hot-headed and duel to the death over the smallest perceived slight, such as wearing a coat of the same colour; however, they're also very passionate lovers, so they give enough birth to compensate for the duel-induced deaths.

>Thunder Elves
These elves need to constantly charge their bodies with electricity to avoid falling into a coma. For this reason, they settled a series of very tall peaks composed mostly of iron ore and shrouded in a permanent thunderstorm. Thunder elves make almost everything from metal, from their houses to their clothes, which use chain mail instead of cloth. People experience headaches while near a thunder elf due to the strong magnetic field they radiate.

They hide their ghoulishness by layering glamour upon glamour, so their beauty seems tacky like heavy makeup. Those unable to glamour themselves and control their hunger are straight up ghouls.

Use this also for inspiration.
coinsandscrolls.blogspot.ca/2018/01/osr-ghouls-of-illiam.html

what if Deep Elves and Steel Elves are Dwarves and Humans, respectively?

I like this. Maybe not for elves, but the idea of this effect is awesome.

I mean the elf legends of India.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribhus?wprov=sfla1