The elves are a proud and cultivated race and they often find it difficult to lower themselves to, in their eyes, less advanced cultures. This is especially true among the Kvyr elves who often find their contacts with the continental races tiring. They have shown little interest in foreign politics and culture and they limit their diplomacy to affairs pertaining to coastal trade. Their past has given the Kvyr elves many reasons to judge their neighboring races with suspicion. Conflict and war has unceasingly been their bane and they have experienced both the decimation of their kin and the extinction of their holy viirn trees. Despite hardships, the Kvyr elves have clung like an unyielding weed to the shores their ancestors proudly claimed as their own. Their old adversaries, the "treeburner" orcs, are regarded with spite for wishing to destroy everything held sacred by the elves. Their sporadic contacts with the barbaric Isenvor humans have often been limited to the battlefield. The latter are said to both converse and behave as the animals they dress about their bodies. The Kvyr elves perceive the dwarves to be uncooperative and greedy, a view that with time has weakened among the A'lure elves. This group of elves, inhabiting the woods east of Mervin Hills, is especially fond of halflings. The halflings were the ones who restored their faith in the continent when the elves first came to the region. The halflings are described as hospitable and resourceful in the areas of cultivating and gardening. Their druidic practice and religion has made a lasting impact on the A'lure elves. The southern Arwondel humans are treated politely, but their chaotic history and immoral tendencies leave much to hope for. It is often said in poetry that the A'lure elves traded the shores of Ocean Perennity for the raging waves of the Arwondel Kingdoms. When spoken of in good terms the humans are praised for their industrious constructions and imaginative crafts. The elves commonly regard the trolls to be inferior, due to their animalistic lifestyle. They are said to be carriers of diseases, a natural reflection of their warty appearance and unrefined eating habits. The A'lure elves feel pity for the ill deeds committed against the Oukra Woods, and the trolls are, at a distance, admired for their closeness to nature. The relationship between the Kvyr and A'lure elves is strained due to their many cultural and religious differences. They were once two sister colonies, sharing a destiny, but they chose different approaches to the land. Their disagreement over the Sojourning Viirn Ship of A'lure has become a prominent symbol of their discord. The Kvyr elves see the A'lure elves as defectors of the royal throne and practitioners of heathen religions. Their choice to abandon the shores of an ocean was seen as folly in the eyes of the gods, who cursed them with diseases and shortened life spans. The A'lure elves happily avoid their judgmental kin, refusing to adapt to their demands and expectations.