Duskbough Elf

Duskbough Elves stand a head taller than their lowland kin, six feet and more, spare and long-limbed, built like people who climb. Their skin runs the colors of their hollow home: bark-brown, weathered grey, and deep moss-green, often mottled across the shoulders. Their hair is thick and coarse - black, chestnut, or the pale grey-green of lichen - worn long and bound with cord. Their eyes are large, silver-grey, and reflective, catching light the way an owl's do. They are quiet people, slow to speak and slower to trust, keepers of a steep, mist-drowned hollow forest and of the Reckoning, a calendar of named moons recited at each new moon. They typically live four to six centuries.