On his way, Elminster encounters a dying elf and makes it a promise.

Stormy's real name is Bronwen, but she prefers to be called Stormy because she thinks this makes her sound less like an elf.

Along the way, Drake makes many friends, including Farli, Karzak, and Dombur the dwarves ; the great dragon Vermatrix ; the elf Enigma ; and the mysterious Wahooka, the King of goblin.

Santa Claus also makes special appearances, even giving a high-energy performance on the runway with his group of elf helpers.

On the other hand, there is a close kinship between elves and dwarves, evident already because many dwarves have elvish names, including simple Álfr " elf ", and Alberich " king of elves ".

The elf is occasionally portrayed in a positive light, such as the Queen of Elphame in the ballad Thomas the Rhymer, but many examples exist of elves of sinister character, frequently bent on rape and murder, as in the Tale of Childe Rowland, or the ballad Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight, in which the Elf-Knight bears away Isabel to murder her.

Like many other fictional elf races, they are excellent archers.

: Puzzled many a learned elf,

High elves are one of the most common sub-types of elf appearing in many different fantasy settings.

Users have the ability to customize their avatar in many ways, including skin tone, eye style and color, hair style and color, gender, race ( i. e. human, vampire, elf ) and attire.

As in Scandinavia, when belief in the old gods disappeared, remnants of the mythos persisted: Holda, a " supernatural " patron of spinning ; the Lorelei, a dangerous Rhine siren derived from the Nibelung myth ; the spirit Berchta ( also known as Perchta ); the Weisse Frauen, a water spirit said to protect children ; the Wild Hunt ( in German folklore preceded by an old man, Honest Eckart, who warns others of its approach ); the giant Rübezahl ; changeling legends ; and many more generic entities such as the elf, dwarf, kobold and erlking.

When many of these forces allied under the leadership of the drow goddess Lolth, the god Malar, and the traitorous gold elf Kymil Nimesin in 1371 DR, however, much of the island was laid to waste.

While many scholars believe Witte Wieven originated as above from honoring graves of wise women, others think the mythology of witte wieven come from part of the Germanic belief in disen, land wights, and / or alven ( Old Dutch for " elf ") for several reasons: The practice of bringing offerings and asking for help from their graves is very similar to honoring disen, land wights and alfen in Germanic paganism.

In this game you can play as the four original heroes, the wizard, the elf, the warrior, and the Valkyrie, each wielding many combos and special attacks that can be purchased at the end of each world removing the dull look of a single attack and adding a nice level detail.

Alfheim (, " elf home ") is one of the Nine Worlds and home of the Light Elves in Norse mythology and appears also in Anglo-Scottish ballads under the form Elfhame ( Elphame, Elfame ) as a fairyland, sometimes modernized as Elfland ( Elfinland, Elvenland ).

Most instances of elves in ballads are male ; the only commonly encountered female elf is the Queen of Elfland, who appears in Thomas the Rhymer and The Queen of Elfland's Nourice, in which a woman is abducted to be a wet-nurse to the queen's baby, but promised that she may return home once the child is weaned.

Similar stories existed in numerous ballads throughout Scandinavia in which an elverpige ( female elf ) was responsible for ensnaring human beings to satisfy her desire, jealousy or lust for revenge.

The English word elf is from the Old English ælf or elf ; in compound as

Originally ælf / elf and its plural ælfe were the masculine forms, while the corresponding feminine form ( first found in eighth century glosses ) was ælfen or elfen ( with a possible feminine plural-ælfa, found in dunælfa ) which became the Middle English elven, using the feminine suffix-en from the earlier-inn which derives from the Proto-Germanic *- innja ).

Middle High German has a feminine singular elbe and a plural elbe, elber, but the word becomes very rare, mostly surviving in the adjective elbisch, and is replaced by the English form elf, elfen via 18th century German translations of Shakespeare's A Midsummernight's Dream.

Poor little birdie teased, by Victorian era illustrator Richard Doyle ( illustrator ) | Richard Doyle depicts the traditional view of an elf from later English folklore as a diminutive woodland humanoid.

Successively, the word elf, as well as literary term fairy, evolved to a general denotation of various nature spirits like Puck, hobgoblins, Robin Goodfellow, the English and Scots brownie, the Northumbrian English hob and so forth.

Their name's meaning is " clever, skillful, inventive, prudent ", cognate to Latin labor and Gothic arb-aiþs " labour, toil ", and perhaps to English elf ..

Poor little birdie teased, by the 19th-century England | English illustrator Richard Doyle ( illustrator ) | Richard Doyle depicts an elf as imagined in English folktales.

The association of the Christmas gift-bringer with elves has parallels in English and Scandinavian folklore, and is ultimately and remotely connected to the modern Christmas elf in American folklore.

* Death of an elf ( or cat ) 113A ( English )

He probably preferred the word elf over fairy because elf is of Anglo-Saxon origin while fairy entered English from French.

He certainly felt the need to differentiate elves, as only one kind of the creatures of Faërie, from other inhabitants of that land, and lamented the confusion in English between Fairy ( i. e., Faërie ) and fairy ( i. e., fay or elf ).

Players can choose any of the 13 races from dragons ( fire hatchlings ) to quetzalcoatl as well as the more average human and elf.

Holly Short is a talkative and sarcastic elf with an auburn crew cut ( although she later grows a fringe ) and hazel eyes, as well as the pointy ears and nut-brown skin typical of her species.

He was well considered as quite an elf by the local trolls, including Picknose, for his gambling skills and his ability to hold his liquor.

Eragon insists on rescuing the elf as well.

Former band member Bret McKenzie is also a member of international award-winning comedy duo Flight of the Conchords, as well as playing Figwit the elf in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings.

Her brother Tyrelda and the rest of the elf troops are black as well and make constant reference to Alex Albrecht's character being the token white guy.

Nintendo Power listed Tingle as one of the three weirdos, describing him as both a great cartographer as well as a " fully grown man in a green elf costume who rides a balloon and says, ' Tingle!

They are joined by the elf Ahren Elessedil, now a Druid, and his niece Khyber ( heir to the magic Elfstones ), as well as the mysteriously empathic Rover girl Cinnaminson, for whom Pen develops strong feelings.

Danner, Tuck and Patrel are among the Warrows who go to Challerain Keep, where they become acquainted with High King Aurion Redeye, his son Prince Igon, his future daughter-in-law Princess Laurelin, as well as the elf lord Gildor Goldbranch and Hrosmarshal Vidron.

The legend has been interpreted as a traditional folk tale which has been subjected to Christianization where the familiar story of the seduction of a human being by an elf or fairy leads to the delights of the fairy-realm but later the longing for his earthly home is overwhelming.

An example is " Ólafur Liljurós ", an Icelandic víkivaki folk song dating to the 14th century, about a man on his way to meet his mother who is seduced, kissed and stabbed by an elf woman while riding his horse, then eventually dies.

* Old Norse: The definite article was the enclitic-inn ,-in ,-itt ( masculine, feminine and neuter nominative singular ), as in álfrinn " the elf ", gjǫfin " the gift ", and tréit " the tree ", an abbreviated form of the independent pronoun hinn, cognate of the German pronoun jener.

In Scandinavian folklore, which is a later blend of Norse mythology and elements of Christian mythology, an elf is called elver in Danish, alv in Norwegian, and alv or älva in Swedish ( the first is masculine, the second feminine ).

The Old Norse name incorporates the words meaning " wand ", " staff " or ( especially in compounds ) " magic " and " elf ".

In Norse mythology, a half-elf is the offspring of an elf and a human.

One role was as a Nisse, a type of gnome or elf associated with Christmas in Danish tradition but not to be confused with Norse mythology.

The name derives from the Old Norse words gandr ( wand ) and álfr ( elf ), thus a protective spirit who wields a magical wand.