Elves
Also called Álfar, Alfar.
Elves are the beings of Norse and later northern European tradition who live alongside people without being of them, divided in the medieval sources into bright and dark kindreds and credited with both blessing and affliction.
At a glance
- Tradition
- Norse mythology
- Region
- Nordic Regions (place of origin)
- Trait family
- The Hearth-Bound
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Traits
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Curses
- Curse infliction
why
They receive sacrifice in at least one recorded practice, they are associated with fertility and with a particular god given their world as a possession, and they are also blamed for illness — a category of ailment attributed to their shot, and charms surviving against it.