Thread:Eureka Enderborn/@comment-26184570-20160618040416/@comment-26184570-20160618144326

1. Goblins. But NOT like the ones in LOTR. They are small, weak, mentally feeble (but not "stupid") creatures. So, in other words, the're not stupid, but you can convince them of just about anything. They are about the size of Gollum, and look rather similar, but with some major differences. Their arms have a rather T-rex like posture, they have not a single hair on their body, large eyes, holes for ears, a small mouth and a Voldemort-esque nose. Their main tactic is just to swarm in numbers (they have an extremely high birth rate). They are not always "evil". Most are unafiliated, though some of the more prominent chiefdoms are either aligned with Vladak or Raven (after Raven's death, the Barbarian lady with yellow hair). Speaking of which, what people did Raven control? Also, the goblins have a strange upsession with butter, and it plays a large part in their religion. The goblin priests even melt it and take baths in it.

2. On the Eastern side of Tlaloc's small continent, the Elves there are quite different. They are called Wood-Elves, though again, they aren't quite like the Wood-Elves in LOTR. The parts of the island they inhabit have the same range of temperature, but are drier. They have tan skin, green, hazel or brown eyes (and anything in between) and brown or red hair that is usually curly or wavy. One in ten Wood-Elves will have black hair (true black hair, like the type Asians, Pacific Islanders or Native Americans have), but it will generally have the same curly or wavy texture. They are a bit shorter than the High-Elves, and there is some tention between the two. Indeed, Tlaloc's hold over the Wood-Elves isn't nearly as strong as it is over his own folk. The Wood-Elves speak a very strange dialect of Elvish. Where as the High-Elves speak Quenya, the Wood-Elves speak what to us would sound like Sindarin with a heavy accent that is like a mix of Arabic, Turkish, Finnish, Farsi and Mongolian, with many alveolar lateral fricatives, and even more uvular fricatives. It sounds very harsh in comparison to the Quenya of the High-Elves, but don't tell the Wood-Elves that. Their culture is heavily influenced by the cultures corresponding to the languages mentioned above, in contrast to the culture of the High-Elves, which could be recognized easily in ME. Wood-Elves tend to be less "wise", and far more suspicious, but in their own way, their culture is just as beautiful. There have been many attempts by the Wood-Elves to break away from Tlaloc, each one being just a tiny bit more sucessful. After Vladak's downfall, they finally were granted independence by an uncharacteristically happy Tlaloc. Their soldiers look like the Wood-Elf soldiers from the Battle of the Five Armies, except that the designs on their weapons are more influenced by the cultures I was talking about, and they don't have that big cape. They are the best archers on Arcanus, and while very proud and suspecting, if you earn their trust, they are good and kind allies. Their culture, if you are actually trusted enough to be let into it is more open than the High-Elves, much like camparing English culture (High-Elves) to Middle-Eastern culture (Wood-Elves). The High-Elves tend to look down on them, which has not helped their relationship with their kin. Finally, where as the High-Elves use Tengwar for their language, the Wood-Elves use Sarati that has been modified to accomodate the wide range of consonents in their unique Elvish dialect. They write it Right-to-Left, and have been known to do horizontal and verticle and with and without the line running across the top of the characters (side in the case of verticle), all of this depending on the formality of the document. In fact, they have extremely high literacy rates.