Elves

Elves are one of the four races featured in The Hollow Kingdom trilogy. At the start of the series, they are thought to be extinct. By the last book, they are reistablished in their ancestrial home. The race is based off of beauty.

Background
The bodiless beings known as the First Fathers became interested in the physical world and decided to create races of their oown. Looking at humans, they saw the shortcomings of that race and worked to avoid those flaws in their own creations. Since the First Fathers disagreed on whether to form their new races on beauty or strength, two races were created: the elves and the goblins. The First Fathers of the elves created their race with only what was beautiful and designed teir way of life to be filled with ease.

The elves and goblins originally lived in the mountains near Mesopotamia. When humans with sacrifice and blood based religions entered the area, their pagan practices had a negative impact on all of the races. Pagan priests from Egypt used magic to hunt elves and goblins. An elf King saw that the elves were loosing their identity, because of the savagry. So he promised to lead his people to a peaceful land and he worked magic on himself in order to fullfill that promise. The King died in battle with the goblins, but he still kept his word. When the elves woke up the evening after the battle, their dead King was standing in the middle of the camp. "All the flesh had fallen from his bones, leaving them bleached and smooth." He led his people west for over a undred years. During this time, they grew in strength. Sometimes the skeleton walked and sometimes he stopped for monthes, but he never laid down to rest until he reached a large oval lake in Britain.

During all of those years, the goblins followed the elves. When they reached Britain, the goblin King, Marak Lionclaw was born. He was very magical and preyed on the elves. He kidnaps half of the elf camp lords and holds them hostage. The daughter of the elf King's advisor, Dara, agrees to marry Lionclaw to free the elf lords. Since the goblin King loves her, he makes peoce with the elves. He and the elf King create the truce circle and establish protocal between the races.