Wood Elven Appearance Guide

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THE WOOD ELF APPEARANCE GUIDE

 

Hi, yes, I’m making another one of these. Why? Because when I get bored I like to write to past the time. Also, the last appearance guide I made late at night on my birthday while I was pretty drunk. So without further ado, here is a thread for noobs and old players alike to follow when deciding what their wood elf should look like.

Here we have a fairly typical trio of wood elves, I’ll go further into detail explaining what makes them unique.

 

Skin

Wood elf skin should most likely fall under this spectrum. You can go a big lighter or bit darker if you want. The key is to not look white. If your character is a pure wood elf, he will have tan to brown skin which is distinctly not caucasian looking. A half-high elf character will have reason to have paler skin, however.

 

Hair & Eyes

 

Hair

As seen above, wood elf hair is typically on the darker side. These include dark reds, browns, blacks, and occasionally blonde. Blonde however, is more associated with wood elves with high elf blood in them. The following hair colours are your best bet if you want to make a wood elfy looking wood elf:

• Dark Red

• Coffee Brown

• Auburn

• Black

• Dirty Blonde (if part high elf)

 

Hair dyes are general frowned upon in wood elf culture, but subtle green dyes are acceptable.

 

Eyes

Eyes are more varied among the wood elves, and depend more on what Seed you belong to. Caerme’onn, for example, more often will have green eyes. The Tahorrans would have yellow eyes, and Calithils blue. If you belong to no Seed or family at first, then eye colour is at your own discretion. Here are some good choices for you:

• Green (any shade)

• Blue

• Black

• Brown

• Yellow

 

Note, purple eyes, while possible, are more of a high elf trait. Red eyes are extremely rare in wood elves and I wouldnt recommend making your wood elf red eyed unless he was part dark elf.

 

Clothes

Wood elves dress fairly conservatively, so you won’t see many flashy, flamboyant colours. A good rule of thumb when deciding what colours to dress your wood elf up is: “Do these colours naturally occur?”

 

Obviously, greens are the most popular colour to go with, but things like the muted yellows and reds of a sunset are also a good route to go down, or the deep blue of an ocean.

 

Seed Tattoos/Ilmyumiers

Most likely, your character will end up getting tattoo’ed if they end up joining one of Laureh’lins many seeds, wood elf version of tribes. However, it is also possible to have your character belong to his very own seed! You can simply say you are the only member of a wild, nomadic seed who seeks a life in the big city with the city elves.

 

A seed needs its own tattoo colour and design, and is usually on specific parts of their body, visible. These tribal tattoos are called ilmyumier. Example follow:

Caerme’onn Seed Ilmyumier

Colour: Dark Red

Place: Arm or Face

 

Torena Seed Ilmyumier

Colour: Dark Blue

Place: Face

Aureon Seed Ilmyumier

Colour: Dark Green

Place: Face

Tinuvial Seed Ilmyumier

Colour: Dark Brown

Place: Face/Arm

 

Conclusion

And those are essentially the main points in how to make a lore abiding wood elf. You do not need to follow these to a T, and you may take some creative liberties, especially if your character has blood of other races in them. However, for the most part, these need to be followed in order for your wood elf to be proper looking.