Thread:Argali1/@comment-25356210-20160220202843/@comment-26184570-20160223222207

Maybe he only appears "Elven" when he has to, and this is his prefered form. Also, Heart was wrong. She said that the Elves are exclusively based off of "Caucasians", but that is only partially true. They are based off of Latin, Celtic, Finnic and, to a lesser degree, Germanic peoples (this does not include the mysterious Avari ethnicities). While the Finns do have some Germanic in them, the original Finnic phenotype is part of the Fino-Ugric branch of the larger Siberian/Northeast Asian phenotype. As such, in less Germanic mixed populations, male Finns actually have the Y chromosomal Haplogroup N, which is a sister-group of Haplogroup O, which is the Haplogroup of East-Asia and the Pacific. As for the previously Mentioned Avari, I imagine that each tribe varies wildly, and that a large part of their culture and phenotype is dependant on the various Rhunnic cultures they leave near and amongst, their level of mixing again verrying.