>>37156165The issue I have with that idea (beside them potentially being a relatively recent and artificial species) is that Palkyries are much better suited for living in the forest in terms of physiology so they would be driving the elves out of the forest into the tundra instead of the other way around. I think it’s more likely that the elves ended up in /vnug/’s forest is caused by the end of the ice age causing the mammoth tundra to shrink with rising sea levels and the spread of trees. Their range probably got compressed further because of humans spreading from the tropics outbreeding them and maybe better at conventional fighting due to their stabler stance
I agree the Sami-Nose parallel would be cool though!
>>37156298That or faun although they’ve pretty much merged into something similar. Maybe the reason why popular elves are stereotypical’s because changing them too much push them to be considered different fantasy being instead