Wind Elves

Wind elves are a race of elves native to the Kaleri Plateaus along the coast of northwestern Sirakos. They are small in population, residing mainly in a single city, or otherwise in secluded monasteries bordering the oceans.

Biology
Wind elves are about the height of the average human, but with dark blue or gray skin and pointed ears. They are typically thin of frame. Wind elves are all subject to a genetic mutation that causes them to go blind in middle age. Their hearing, however, increases in capability after this point, allowing them to navigate by sound, even noticing the slight changes in the sound of rain against the rock to avoid obstacles.

Culture
Wind elves are a mostly solitary people. Their only city, Eratura, is inhabited almost entirely by the young members of the race. As they go blind around the age of sixty, it is expected for the young to work hard and have children at a fairly young age to supply the older population with food. Once their sight begins to fail and impede their productivity, it is customary for the aging wind elf to travel to one of the seven monasteries located around the plateaus to live out the rest of their life studying, in an attempt to advance the knowledge of the wind elves, and potentially find the cure for their blindness.

In light of their impending condition, most wind elves are quite solemn, even in youth. Idle conversation is something to be engaged in at home after the work is done, for the monasteries need constant supply. They tend to become more outgoing after blindness, as they must discuss their studies with their fellow monks, or simply become bored.

Religion
Wind elves are typically atheistic, as their lifestyle leaves little time for religion, but some expats have been known to adopt Urhimanhta, while some more rebellious elves have taken to the worship of the eleven Urhimanhtan demons.