I've been pondering about the variations of my elves for a while, to new watchers they're a kind of humanoid alien hermaphrodite named "elf" by humans in their solar system (sofar named Escher system). It started with one character I drew (Blaine) and I've been pondering his backgrounds ever since, I guess complicated by additions of other elves such as Ambrosius who has a somewhat different nature.

There's been different kinds of elves and it finally clicked to me how they were related. "Space" elves are a new addition that I've been wanting, unsure of how extant elves would react to technology I've decided that many would have a lot of fun with it and that they've probably had technology for thousands of years before humans arrived.

There is one kind of elf not mentioned here, and that's the "weird" elves. They grow horns/feathers/scales or other things and live in nature, usually alone. Many are crazy. This is not a special branch of elf, but rather the way some elves go when they get older.

"True elves" are practically immortal, and do not continue aging physically once they mature. All true elves can interbreed and are not different races per se. Their genetic material is relatively similar, most specialization happens in the womb and through life. Elves have a unique ability to change over time to adapt to their habitat or even personal wishes if they have conscious core control.

My THEORY for their ancestry is that another intelligent race made them from genetic material of many creatures, using the core as a terminal to control gene expression via a machine (the core is capable of wireless data transfer), this covers why their genome contains data from different animals, and why they have the inorganic core in the first place. The genome of current elves is much more self-reliant than the broken chaos of their ancestors, and many of their metabolic and chemical systems are self-regulating without needing interference from the core.

there will be a graphical representation of this later, hopefully, as I've already made some of the drawings.

and I think I'll rename them space ones to Tech to avoid making everyone think of Spock :P I think of them in the cyberpunk genre