Physical Characteristics
While the Original High Ones are only a headlength shorter than humans and much slenderer, the Wolfriders and the Go-Backs tribes are between 1/2 & 1/3 one half and one third of a human. The elves of Elfquest are broadly human in appearance, but are distinguished from humans by the following characteristics:
- Ears - the most obvious elfin characteristic. Much bigger than human ears, and prominently pointed. Their tips are supported by prominent bony ridges on either side of the skull.
- Eyes - larger than human eyes, with slanted eyelids.
- Cheekbones - high and prominent.
- Noses - smaller and narrower.
- Hair - much finer and silkier than human hair. (Wolfriders' hair is coarser than that of pure elves, due to their wolf blood.)
- Facial hair - none, except in the case of male Wolfriders (see below), who develop "face fur" - mutton chops, beards and moustaches - after living for several centuries (see Longevity, below).
- Fingers and toes - only four digits on each hand and foot.
- Skin color - elves generally exhibit the same range of variation as humans. The Sun Folk, adapted to desert conditions, have medium to dark brown skin. Wolfriders have adapted to cold temperate climates; they are pale pink or ruddy, but tan in hotter climates. Go-backs have a lighter complexion from living in Abode's northern mountains. Gliders—-who mostly lived inside a mountain-—are fair to palid.
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