GOLDEN ELF, the Radiant Pokégirl

GOLDEN ELF, the Radiant Pokégirl

Type: Very Near Human
Element: Magic/Plant
Frequency: Rare
Diet: Human standard, prefers a low meat diet
Role: Frontline infantry, special forces
Libido: Average
Strong Vs: Plant, Water, Dragon, Dark
Weak Vs: Electric, Ghost, Steel
Attacks: Shinesphere, Blurring Form, Absorb, Reflect, Mystic Bolt, Command Plants, Leaf Blade, Vine Burst, Thorn Cutlass, Esuna, Haste, Mystic Bolt, Counter, Headbutt, Spells
Enhancements: Longevity, Enhanced Strength (x3), Enhanced Speed (x2), Enhanced Endurance (x3), Enhanced Dexterity (x2), Enhanced Senses: Hearing (x3), Enhanced Senses: Vision (x3), Nightvision, Pain Immunity (Active), Reduced Feral
Evolves: None
Evolves From: Elf (Sun Stone)
Revised: November 2012

The Golden Elf is so named because its skin is always a shade of gold, ranging from light tan all the way to a true metallic gold identical to the ore. Its hair is always a similar color but is almost always metallic in hue. Only its eyes betray its Elf origins as they can be any color found in the Elf breed. Golden Elves stand between five and a half and six feet tall. They’re bulkier than their Elf cousins, tending towards a curvier figure and a solid C cup.

Where the Elf is popular for growing plants and her incredible abilities with a bow, the Golden Elf is sought out by combat tamers for her melee skills. In both dark and light courts the Golden Elf is the infantry trooper, with more experienced Golden Elves forming special units of unconventional warfare experts. Light courts often make deals with the leagues they reside in to provide a limited number of Golden Elves for military service, with the understanding that these Elves will be allowed to return to the court once their military tamers are dead. More and more dark courts are investigating the possibilities of their Golden Elves getting similar training, often to the delight of the leagues where they reside since the first offer is usually some kind of nonaggression agreement for as long as the program continues.

Golden Elves typically open battle with a volley of shinespheres to blind their opponents before using haste and blurring form while moving to engage their foes. Leaf blade is employed in the cases where prisoners are desired to pummel enemies until they can no longer fight back and command plants is used to entangle attackers as well as to detain the defeated. Golden Elves can learn the living weapon spell and usually prefer swords for melee combat. If grappled, they respond with headbutt until they can get free to resume using their weapons. While Golden Elves are more than capable of holding their own against many foes, when combined with uncannily accurate flights of arrows from supporting Elf archers, enemies seldom last long.

If the foe is too powerful, they use the vaunted Elf ability to pass unseen through the forest to retreat until they can regroup and attack from a new direction.

Outside of combat, Golden Elves can be found working in gardens of specially grown plants where they cause these plants to produce large leaves that grow into the shapes of armor for the Golden Elves to wear in combat. These take months to grow even with Elves helping, but weigh as much as comparable cotton clothing, are hard enough to turn steel blades or claws and are highly resistant to fire. Use of this armor can reduce damage from fire by as much as one half. Only the Elfqueen can grow these leaves faster and categorically will not for anyone outside of her court. This armor is not available for non-Elves, although some Elves working with Golden Elves may be gifted with a suit of her own.

The easiest way to identify a feral Golden Elf is because, while able to communicate and to function normally due to having reduced feral, a feral Golden Elf loses the ability to create her armor. Interestingly, feral Golden Elves are aware that they are feral and will attempt to head for the closest court to be helped. They are single minded in this and will avoid all contact with humans and any non-Elf pokegirl breeds while doing so.

Golden Elves have no special requirements for taming, although they show a marked preference for being tamed outside regularly.

Golden Elves make terrible alphas. They’re not interested in command but do make excellent beta’s or noncoms in military service.

Currently, no human has thresholded into a Golden Elf. However, interestingly enough, all human children, both male and female, may share the mother’s skin color. However it is never metallic unless a boy with pokegirl gene blood traits.