Elves

The Elves are a race of tall and beautiful humanoids who live in small scattered kingdoms around Xath Satheth.

They have historically had rather frosty relations with the Alaezian Empire, viewing their religious system as patriarchal and restrictive and frowning on their mixing of Arcane and Divine magic to create "Wonders" such as the Floating Palace.

Since The Fall, some Elven kingdoms have invaded the territories of the former empire and instigated widespread acts of iconoclasm, destroying images of the saints and any magical items, including the deformation of certain relics: the shield of Hex Calrid and the Encomium of Silian, which was torn from its binding and was condemned to be burned, but did not burn in the flames and so was left on the bonfire; the pages were then collected by opportunists after the iconoclasts left.