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High Elf
High Elves
The people who killed Signet's grandmother, orphaning the half-naiad child Edgar found.
Story so far
High elves appear here only in backstory, but a load-bearing one. Princess Lunette had originally been a tattoo etched onto Signet soon after Edgar found her — young, alone, a half-naiad — following her mother's death at the hands of high elves.
That chain of loss is what put Lunette's body into Carl's possession, and therefore what makes the naiad heart and lungs available when Louis needs them.
Role
The killers whose act set Signet's history, and indirectly the surgery, in motion.
Relationships
Signet — Orphaned by them.
Princess Lunette — Her lineage shaped by their violence.
Edgar — Found Signet after their attack.
Sources — 8 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 3
- A race upgrade rather than a birthright - an elf who crawls far enough becomes a high elf, as Porthus's exit record shows.
Chapter 12
- Elves among Larracos's civilian population, working alongside humans and draconians to salvage the Piccadilly.
Chapter 14
- Elven race of the castle stablemaster Carl half-remembers, presumed to be Simoom's captor Kibben.
Chapter 23
- The race whose sixth-floor castle, nicknamed the Sugar Cube, now serves as Lemig headquarters.
Chapter 27
- Bald elf soldiers fielding massed artillery and zebra-mounted mercenaries on Larracos's southern border.
Chapter 65
- The standard elven stock, invoked only as a contrast to the gentler, fey-like ice elves.
Chapter 94
- Kibben the stablemaster is a high elf, working with the children to calm the agitated Big Tina.
Chapter 96
- The people who killed Signet's grandmother, orphaning the half-naiad child Edgar found.