City Elf
City elves are the most numinous of the elven ethnicities, and the smallest of them. Most city elves live within human cities, in ghettos walled off and found in the poorest, more crime-ridden parts of the city, while elves in villages are often homeless or live in shacks. The city elves are typically impoverished and survive by taking menial and unrewarding tasks or even begging. In the most desperate cases, they might enter a life of crime, or sell themselves into slavery or indentured servitude to support their families.
Though overall treatment varies kingdom to kingdom, city elves are universally second-class citizens. Elves are, by law or prejudice, unable to join most organizations or hold decent jobs, and the law often turns a blind eye to their abuses. The extensive abuse has resulted in city elves falling into one of two categories; the first attempting to hold onto whatever elven culture they can and resisting human efforts to absorb them into their culture, the second conforming to human culture as to best fit in and minimise the abuse and violence.
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