When the High Elven clans left for the Feywild, the Wood Elves remained to defend their forest homes. As written story isn’t in Elvish tradition, there is no evidence that the Wood Elves ever encountered the rampaging Giant armies that roamed through Fellmir at the time. And yet there is, though it seems a wild estimate as no solid proof yet exists. In the deepest jungles and forests, where the Wood Elves either live or once lived, now roam some new strange creatures. The Farlanders have Elven features in their body build, slim and athletic, even with the same facial features including the enlongated ears. However, Farlanders stand well over 10 ft tall at their adult age, and their skin ranges from onyx black to ashen grey.
Despite their size, Farlanders does not exactly sport great strength like other Giantkind, they are, however, fast runners and relatively good at climbing. They use these feats to quickly get out of harms way. Farlanders are shy, and will try to avoid detection if possible. Even Elven Druids, meditating for days in the same spot, have not been able to get the Farlanders to come closer, though they were under observation from somewhere the entire time. Farlanders are foragers, hunters and fishermen, typically hunting and fishing with long spears. Visible scared of fire and lightning, they eat most of their food raw, and they have developed a nearly completely immune relation to poisons, presumed to stem from eating mushrooms and fungi.
The only known contact with a Farlander, was a starving Elven ranger, who was about to eat some really deadly mushroom. The woman described it as a “tall. dark and very quick figure, that snatched the mushroom out of her hands, making a few low grunts, and then pointed her to some good ones instead, out of a reflex, she said “Thanks, friend” in Elvish, and the figure seemed to understand.”
Obviously, Farlanders are an interesting study to mages and scholars, but their elusive nature makes them nigh on impossible to research.
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