Agiia

Jungle Elves
Little is known of the Agiia elves for they reside in the deepest recesses of the northern jungles of Doa'Dane. No humans south of Manalseia are known to have made contact with them. The known written accounts describing the Agiia elves are limited at best and merely a handful of those records survive, all of which were recorded by Ithuet explorers. The most complete account available is provided by the Ithuet P'fsala the Observer, who stumbled into Agiia territory during a hunting ritual sometime around A.E. 1060 and was invited into a nearby village. Not only is P'fsala's account the most complete, it provides the most details of Agiia culture.

Physical Characteristics
P'fsala's surviving notes indicate the Agiia stand no taller than five and a half feet, their frames appearing small and almost fragile, with "tight muscles woven over the bones such as twine winds over a spindle." She describes their faces as almost skeletal, the flesh hugging the bone tightly. An excerpt from her account follows:

1062, autumn – agiia are shorter than we ithuet, who are shorter than the sali in the south. agiia differ from the rest of us greatly as their skin is a darker colour, more akin to woodland colours of deep greenes and brownes. in the short time i spen't with them i notic'd theyr skin chang'd colour wen on the hunt just enough to almost blend with theyr surroundingz

Within the surviving notes there is no other mention of the Agiia's skin changing color during hunting practices. Some thinkers believe if this information is true then the change would be only minute, perhaps taking upwards of an hour for it to occur.

Society
According to P'fsala's account Agiia society is tribal. They function within small clans made up of two or three families at most, their numbers averaging around thirty to forty members. Agiia clans are led by a male in a position similar to a chief, but the actual title has been lost. The chief is not a strong warrior, not a medicine man, nor is he a religious figure. The head-male is said to have a special link with the world around him in so much that he is much more akin to a soothsayer. P'fsala's notes do not describe the male-female relationship, and thus it is unknown if there is in fact a dominant gender.

Religion
It would irresponsible to make many assertions pertaining to Agiia religion. It appears from P'fsala's notes that there is some spiritual connection with the natural world. The extent of that connection and the axioms involved are still a mystery.

1063, 2nd moon – they refus'd to speek of any elements of theyr faith with me becus i am an outsider. i do believe theyr faith to be similar to animism of some kind without confirmation. one told to me that the 'world' would speek to me wen i was prepared to listen. wen i said i was prepared i was told it was not my accord to make and that the 'world' would speek to me wen she deemed me ready

Language
Ági

Origins: Manalseia

Usage: Ági is spoken strictly among the Agiia elves. The Agiia are isolated within the jungles of Manalseia and thus their language has not been transmitted beyond their communities.

Kinship: As one of the three elvish languages of Doa'Dane, Ági is the most obscure. No extensive studies of the language have been conducted. The only known information pertaining to Agiian culture comes from the scattered remains of the eleventh-century Ithuet explorer, P'Sala the Observer. Unfortunately the surviving journal entries lack linguistic descriptions, so the language is completely unknown. As elves, however, it is sure the Agiia share the Guathan mother tongue with all other elvish ethnic groups.

Restrictions: Only Agiia may speak Ági.

The Agiia are currently unavailable as a playable ethnic group.