Many fantasy settings contain elves, often, particularly in western fantasy elves are divided into multiple different kinds. Fantasy is a Genre that uses magic and other Supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, and/or setting In many works of modern Fantasy, elves are a race of semi-divine Humanoid beings High elves are one of the most common sub-types of elf appearing in many different fantasy settings.
High elves are distinguished from other fantasy elves by their place of living, as they usually dwell in stone cities, instead of woods, like wood-elves. Fantasy is a Genre that uses magic and other Supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, and/or setting In many works of modern Fantasy, elves are a race of semi-divine Humanoid beings High elves and dark elves can be used to contrast respectively the good elves and the evil elves, as done in Warhammer. Dark elves (Old Norse Dökkálfar, usually called the Svartálfar "black elves" are known as a class of elves living underground in Old Warhammer Fantasy is a Fantasy setting created by Games Workshop, in which many games of that company are set the best known ones being Warhammer High elves could never be evil. Typically high elves consider themselves the most purely good race of all, and view all other races beneath them, especially lower elves, and they are usually the most magically developed of all elves. There are many elements that show up throughout the fantasy genre in different guises
Many fantasy worlds have High Elf races:
- Calaquendi are the High Elves in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
- The High Elves are a race in the Warhammer Fantasy setting. A fantasy world is a type of Imaginary world, part of a Fictional universe used in Fantasy novels and games In the works of J R R Tolkien, the Calaquendi (singular Calaquende) are the Elves of Light, those who had seen the light of the Two Trees The Lord of the Rings is an epic In Games Workshop 's Warhammer Fantasy setting the High Elves, or the Asur as they name themselves are a race of Elves who live on
- Eldar of Warhammer 40,000 present a science-fictional aspect to the High Elf concept. In the Fictional universe of Warhammer 40000, the Eldar are a race of Elf -like humanoids Warhammer 40000 (informally known as Warhammer 40K or just 40K) is a tabletop miniature wargame in a Science
- High Elves, or "Quel'Dorei" in their native tongue, are the pale-skinned magic-addicted descendants of Night Elves in the Warcraft Universe that were exiled from Kalimdor. The Warcraft universe is a Fictional universe in which a series of games and books published by Blizzard Entertainment are set After the massacre of most of their race by the Scourge led by the Death Knight Arthas, they renamed themselves the Blood Elves in memory of their fallen kin. Although certain factions of the Blood Elves in Outland are doing evil deeds in service of the evil Illidan, the race as a whole is not evil.
- In the Elder Scrolls universe, High Elves - or Altmer - the golden-skinned elves from Summerset Isles, are noted for their pride and arrogance as well as their potent magic. The Elder Scrolls (also known as Elder Scrolls or abbreviated as TES) is a Computer role-playing game series developed The races in The Elder Scrolls series of computer games are grouped into several basic categories Mer (elves Humans Beastfolk and others Tamriel is the fictional continent where the events of The Elder Scrolls games take place
- In Everquest, they are very proud and arrogant, developed for magic instead of combat. EverQuest, often called EQ, is a 3D fantasy -themed Massively multiplayer online role-playing game ( MMORPG) that was released
- In the DOS game, Master of Magic, they are powerful long-range fighters, but inferior in magic to the dark elves. Master of Magic is a single-player Fantasy Turn-based strategy computer game created by Simtex and published by Microprose in
- One exception to the rule where High Elves could be considered 'bad' is in the Flintloque world of Varlon. Flintloque is a Historo-Fantasy Skirmish miniatures wargame based on the Napoleonic Wars. Here they march under the banner of the Emperor Mordred, who dreams of world domination. (They are an exact parallel of the French Napoleonic forces).
- In Record of Lodoss War, List of Record of Lodoss War characters#Deedlit is a High Elf shaman (spirit magic user in some versions). is a franchise of Fantasy Novels by Ryo Mizuno based around the work he originally created for a world called Forcelia for Role-playing games The following is a list of characters from the Record of Lodoss War Media franchise.
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