Encyclopedia of Feanor Continent

When the elves are seven or eighty years old, their bodies have basically matured, just like human teenagers who are seventeen or eighteen years old. They will only grow a little taller in the next time, but they will not grow until they are one hundred years old. Only then will they hold a coming-of-age ceremony, and they will be regarded as formal members of the tribe from then on, gaining the right to participate in tribal affairs and decision-making.

Most elves' coming-of-age ceremonies are hosted by their parents or guardians in the clan. The elves who have just grown up, regardless of gender, will go out hunting the day before the coming-of-age ceremony. Don't intervene, the prey obtained by the protagonist of the banquet with his own strength will be shared with everyone at the banquet of the coming-of-age ceremony, which means that this elf has the ability to give back to the tribe. -- "Encyclopedia of Fei Nuo Continental Customs"

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The next day they continued to march in the forest. Palos broke off a branch blocking the way to make it easier for Evandel behind him to pass. He looked at the increasingly dense trees around him and said, "From here further north, But it is the boundary of Yuexi Forest."

"That's right." Evandel's voice came from behind, "When we enter Moon Creek Forest, we don't need to be on guard all day long. Even if the Knights Templar knew our location, they wouldn't dare to chase us in."

"But won't the elves attack us?" Palos asked, "They are not very friendly to humans, and they are especially hostile to dark elves."

Fiers emphasized again: "I'm not a dark elf."

"I'm afraid they won't give you a chance to explain, so they came here from a distance." Palos said, "Does Alkai know them well?"

"That's right." Evandel said perfunctorily.

"What does 'sort of' mean." Fiers asked curiously.

"It's a very long story to tell." Evandel didn't continue, but Phils, who felt a little bored, still wanted to know: "Anyway, idle is idle, let's talk about it."

"If Alkai agrees, I will tell you." Evandel still felt that he needed to consider his own opinion. After all, Alkai might not want to let others know about his past.

So Phils went to pester Alkai who was leading the way ahead. Alkai was so annoyed by the pestering that he said coldly, "It's up to you."

"He agreed!" Phils happily returned to Evandel.

"Well, this story starts with the feud between the elves and the dark elves. You should know that some exits of the underground labyrinth are near Moonbrook Forest. Dark elves often sneak out of these exits in the dark to attack the elves. The village may intercept and kill the lonely elves, and the female general of the elves, Kenathes, leads the night patrol all the year round, arresting and executing many invading dark elves, and the entire Undercity hates her until one time How come the dark elves found out about her whereabouts and set up an ambush to capture her and her husband..."

The dark elves tortured Kenathes and his wife cruelly, but they never said a word. Whether they raped her in front of her husband or killed her husband in front of him, the elf general did not betray his people.The helpless dark elves were ready to take the spoil back alive to sacrifice to the Spider Goddess, but the elves who discovered the anomaly in time found it and rescued Kenathes.

But this is not the end of the tragedy, but the beginning of everything. Not long after, Kenathes found out that she was pregnant.

Due to the difficult reproduction of the elves, there has never been a precedent for voluntary abortion. Moreover, Kenathes is not sure whether this is the child left by her husband. She can only wait for the birth of the child under the condition of mental torture.

When the child was just born, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. He had ivory white skin and pale golden hair like his mother, and everything was in line with the blood characteristics of the elves, but this relief only lasted for a few days, and so on. When he opened his eyes for the first time, Kenathes found that his eyes were blood red like a dark elf.

"So that child is Alkai." Fiers suddenly realized, "I remember you once said that my life experience is very similar to that of a friend of yours. Does this friend refer to Alkai?"

"Yes, I was talking about him."

"So, like me, he's a hybrid of dark elves and surface elves?" Fiers looked at Alkai's ivory skin and light golden hair, feeling that something was wrong.

"No, it's not." Evandel said, "He and you are both children who are hated and cursed by their biological mother, I just think it's similar."

The elves have always been kind to their children. Because of the difficulty of reproduction, they will take care of them even if they are half-elfs who are mixed with other races, but Arkai is the only exception, although his mother understands rationally that it is not his fault that he was born into this world. , but thinking that the child's blood might come from one of the murderers who killed her husband, Kenathes wanted to strangle him to death.

With such a state of mind, of course she can't be very kind to the child. Alkai has been treated coldly and scolded by his mother since he was a child. On the head of the bastard, Alkai, who did not feel any warmth and kindness among his people, became silent and withdrawn, sometimes violent, and only liked to stay with animals, preferring to sleep on the belly of a moose at night. This made Kenathes, who had been forced to raise him simply out of duty, dislike him doubly.

When Alkai was a teenager, because other elf children insulted his mother while bullying him, Alkai knocked out one of his teeth with a stone without saying a word. Kenathes's patience with Alkai finally reached its limit, and she took Alkai to the depths of the forest under the pretext of teaching him to hunt and abandoned him.

A teenage elf is just a child, usually dead in a dangerous forest, but out of nowhere, a bear who just lost its cub adopts the elf kid, only as much food as the bear can find Part of it was not edible for elves, and when Evandel happened to meet Arkay, the elf child was emaciated and sick to death.

Avondel healed Arkay, but the mage couldn't always run around with a child, so he left him to be raised by a trusted human ranger.

As for Kenathes, since Evandel always felt that it was impossible for the half-blooded elves to coincidentally have only the color of eyes like dark elves, when he was a guest in Moonbrook City, the capital of the elves, he went to the library to search for her husband. In her family tree, she found more than one record of red eyes among her husband's ancestors.

Alkai's red eyes are just a rare mutation hidden in the blood of her husband's family. It can only be said that this tragedy stems from too many coincidences. If Kenathes had been pregnant a few months earlier, or her husband had not died In that ambush, she would not have mistaken Arkai for a descendant of the dark elves because of this rare eye color mutation.

Kenathes, who knew the truth, was too remorseful. She loved her husband deeply, but abandoned her and her husband's child in the forest to die. This was a very serious crime for the elves who valued the protection of their offspring.Since the marriage of the elves is for life, it is impossible for her to have other children. Although she is glad to know that Alkai is still alive, the damage has already been done. It can never be bridged.

Alkai never returned to Yuexi Forest. The old ranger had no wife and children. He raised Alkai as his own for decades and taught him various survival skills. After the old ranger died of old age, he was still half a child. Alkai, who looks like a big child, lived in the Singing Forest, guarding the barren forest instead of the old ranger. Evandel would visit him occasionally when passing by the Singing Forest, and learned that Kenathes wanted to All attempts to take him back to the tribe were severely rejected.

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After Evandel finished telling this "very long story", they had already arrived in an area with very lush forests. The bat Natalie flew down from the treetops and landed on Evandel's shoulder.

Evandel stopped the team, they waited in place, and soon a few elves in leaf camouflage appeared from the bushes.

The elves couldn't figure out why they were still being discovered even though they were lurking so well, and they were also very wary of these outsiders, looking at them one by one as if they were facing a big enemy. The elf asked in Elvish language: "Who are you and what are you doing here?"

Evandel lifted the hood of the cloak and replied in standard Elvish language: "Don't be nervous, we are not enemies."

The elf who led the team frowned and thought, "I think I've seen you... By the way, it's you! Mr. Evandel, the Sharku mage!"

"You know me too?"

The elf who led the team put away his bow and arrow: "Of course, after all, you are the only human being welcomed by us, but why did your hair change color?"

"I dyed my hair specially to avoid being hunted down, and it will change back in the future."

"No matter who is chasing you, at least you are safe in this forest. You are welcome, my friend." Halfway through the elf's welcome expression, he saw Phils behind Evandel, and immediately became alert , "What's the matter, you brought a dark elf?"

Although Phils, who only half understood Elvish, didn't understand what he was talking about, but just by looking at the other person's expression, he knew that he was discussing himself in an unfriendly manner, so he could only smile embarrassingly and hit him. Say hello: "Hi!"

"He is not a dark elf, you can see that his eyes are not red. Of course, Alkai is not a dark elf, although his eyes are red." Evandel said, "Then, you can take me to see your patriarch Well, we've come a long way and we desperately need a break."

"Please come with us." Out of trust in Evandel, the elf did not continue to pursue the origins of other outsiders, and led them to his tribe, but there were still two elves walking behind spontaneously, Focus on monitoring the little Phils.