Glass Elves Known as Côtha

The eldest people, or at least the most long lived. A pale silhouette stands in the foothills overlooking the midnight valley. Tall and slender, with long limbs of an angular musculature that trap shadows in a chalky stone like skin. Broad shoulders tipped contrapposto as old eyes look out over the land from a distinct and carved face. Eyes that once help within them the glint of copper and regal gold, now a pale grey. A being that lives alone, with capacity unknown and memories that sink back deeper than any folk history. The Côtha are the rumoured people of abandoned villages and mountain shacks, the ancient kings of even older civilisations, and the mystics of yore. Wizened spell smiths, knights with skin of marble that requires little armour, and interlocutors of the gods themselves. A magnificent yet fallen people so rare in these current days that most consider them to be closer to apparition than mortal den.

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It is said that the Highking himself was of this stock, yet it is also believed that the scheming Madoc was also a witch of such blood. Beings that shepherd their fellow den, for good or for bad, the Côtha are surely uniquely graced.

From "A folkloric-ethnography of the lands" by Lady Zelah Tremaine and Sir Edwin Hopper