@TheEdVerse moon elves, with their very pale skin and some having such pale hair too … I’m kinda wondering how common & how received are “alt” looks? Hair colours, especially odd or multi sort, piercings, tattoos … etc.
What would they use for the dyes too if you don’t mind?— 🌈Jaye🦄Em🌹Edgecliff🏳️🌈 (@jayeedgecliff) October 11, 2020
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Moon elves tend to be very expressive, and that includes unusual hairdos and dying. Tattoos not common, but henna and other body painting (tattoos that fade and wear off and can be redrawn or replaced with different) popular. Forest berry, leaf, and bark dyes… 2)
…(see Amarune's Almanac 1: Forests of the Realms) such as blueleaf, flamebriar, and rowan are used, mixed with various saps and oils as carrier agents, for hair, nails, and body paint as well as textiles. Piercings are very rare among elves when metal is…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 11, 2020
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…involved (when it is, it's usually electrum, or alloys of silver that won't readily tarnish); more often, elven piercings involve a bone from a revered ancestor or lost loved one.
Eyeshadow, and symbols painted around an eye, are favorite moon elf adornments.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 11, 2020
How does this differ from sun elves, Ed?
— Leslie Courtney (@LeslieCourtne14) October 11, 2020
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The vast majority of sun elves go for gilded or bronzed (tans or cosmetic) bodily beauty and perfection, not alt or “goth” looks. They want to impress with how beautiful their bodies (and expensive, often-revealing garments)… 2)
…are, not how startling/”different” they can look. (So think of all the real-world TV elegant, Euro-style expensive fragrance commercials, and the A-list actress and celebs who appear in them, and that’s more what sun elves…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 12, 2020
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…strive for.) Sun elves tend to have more overt vanity.
Both my moon and sun elf descriptions on this topic are of course stereotypes, and may break down entirely when applied to any individual elf, adventurers in particular.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 12, 2020