Elvish Shamanism

The longer elves remained in Voreld after their great migration, the fewer remembered or cared the religions of their ancestors. Elders who feared great beasts in the sky, ready to swoop down at a moment’s notice, were seen as crazy or delusional. Many questioned whether the various gods of Quellem ever even existed. It only took a few generations for the old ways to die out completely.

In the place of the old religion evolved a new pseudo-religion. As the elves became subject to hostility and slavery, they grew more insular and familial as a race. They were marginalized for being different, which pushed them to take pride in their differences and the accomplishments of their race as a whole. This manifested in the reverence of ancestor elves. All ancestors were revered, though some more than others.

Particularly important elves of the past, such as folk heroes or wise leaders, came to take the same sorts of roles as the gods of other cultures. Elves would pray for guidance from those who came before them, offer them tribute to aid in their afterlives, and try to live based on lesson learned from the ancestor’s life choices. Over time oral tradition caused inevitably caused details to become embellished, and many of the major ancestors became much more larger-than-life figures than they had been in reality. Below are some of the most commonly worshipped.