Monsean Elves

Monsean Elves
The Monsean (pronounced Mon-See-Ann) Elves, also known as the Elves that Delve and Mask, or the “Novis Elves”, are a myth, a mystery, a legend, a fairy tale among fairy tales. This “lost race” is what people believe the Elves who were made to go into the earth after Ignidean became, bogeymen even to the Mountain Dweorhs.

History
The Monsean Elves have a tragic history. More so than any of the "Wild Elves", who died in the "Floods of Marisdu". More than the "Rural Elves", who are often incorrectly identified as "Grand Elves". Even the "Grand Elves" cannot claim that they have a history more wrapped in tragedy, no matter the costs that the "Elven-Dweorh-Aviarus Cataclysm War" brought to their people. The Monsean or "Novis" Elves were punished by a God Elemental for a misdeed that belonged to their progenitor, but not to them. Imagodai, the God Elemental of Spirit and mother of the other four God Elementals, forced a group of the original Elves into subterranean earth, down the same tunnels that the Dweorhs had spawned from, to look for their progenitor.

The Monsean Elves never found Ignidean. They never found the original home of the Dweorhs, either. They travelled deep into the depths of Orenda's underground world and discovered many things that the God Elementals either were unaware of creating or had discarded far in the depths of time. The Monsean Elves did for a time have a city beneath the earth, as they searched for Ignidean. The "Novis Elves" grew estranged from their cousins out of fear of Imagodai's wrath and even more estranged after their greatest discovery beneath the surface of Orenda.