Dark Elves
The ancient underworld-margin Elven branch of the upper Roothollows, organized around guarded passage, chamber-right, and the duty of refuge, which the Roothollow Rupture drove deeper and hardened; their civilization is the Gloamroot Covenant. See The Elder Peoples.
Dark Elves , later associated with the Gloamroot Covenant, are an ancient underworld-margin branch whose identity is hardened, not created, by The Drowning Bloom and the later sequence in The Sealing of the Upper Roothollows, The Darkening of the Roothollows, The Founding of the Gloamroot Covenant, The Gloamroot Inheritance Ambiguity, and The Bitter Root Histories. Even before catastrophe, the old Roothollow world was the most threshold-conscious part of the wider Elven world, organized more strongly around guarded passage, chamber-right, admission chamber by chamber, and sworn refuge duty. Their later history is therefore not only catastrophe followed by a polity, but the forming of a darker branch and a long contest over whether its houses count as rightful Elves at all.
In the Writers’ Guide
- The Dissonance FoundationsWays In
- Stewards and Resonants FoundationsThe Gods by Prime
- What Makes a People FoundationsBranches, Lineages, and Regional Peoples, Why the Peoples Differ
- The Elder Peoples FoundationsThe Elves, Old Neighbours
- Humans FoundationsCentres and Edges, Meeting the Older Peoples
- The Ages of Caeldon FoundationsThe Deep Ruptures
- The Threads of History FoundationsThe Deep World, Tensions
- A World in Two Halves The Medieval EraThe Cradle-Web
- The Civilizations of the Medieval Era The Medieval EraThe Elven Orders
- The Gods of the Medieval Era The Medieval EraGods of Terra
- Faith in Practice The Medieval EraThe Held Covenant
- Stone and the Deep The Medieval EraThe Ironspine, The Stonewake Deeps, The Roothollows, The Upper Roothollows and 1 more
- Sealed and Silent Places The Medieval EraThe Sunken Stairs
- How the Present Was Made The Medieval EraBefore the Corridor, What the Present Inherits
- Black-Water Eels A Bestiary of CaeldonLore and Belief
- Lampless Spiders A Bestiary of CaeldonLore and Belief
- Pale Cave Creatures A Bestiary of CaeldonLore and Belief
- Root-Borers A Bestiary of Caeldon
- Threshold Crickets A Bestiary of Caeldon
- Chamber-Grey A Bestiary of Caeldon
- Fungus Beds A Bestiary of CaeldonLore and Belief
- Living Root (Gloam) A Bestiary of CaeldonLore and Belief
- Rot-Shelf A Bestiary of Caeldon
- Weeping Caps A Bestiary of CaeldonLore and Belief
- The Drowned Court A Bestiary of Caeldon
- Glossary Foundations