Talk:Ellethwen/@comment-4536066-20121019163143

A tip or three on profiles, since you asked for them:

Avoid saying "this information is unknown" at all costs. While it may not be public information in-character, even if the character herself doesn't know, you know. Why? Because you created her; you are the master of her life and her world and nothing about her is unknown to you. You might be using things like, "Her appearance is a secret because no one who has seen her lived to leave," to make her sound mysterious, but in reality it just sends the message, "I am too lazy to really develop this information so I am using this cop-out to get out of it." If you want to say no one knows what she looks like, instead try, "Ellethwen looks [like this]. However, no living individuals have ever reported her appearance, because [reason]."

We generally run elves on the 1:12 lifespan, so the oldest elf is going to be about 1200 years old, plus or minus a couple centuries. If she was born in the third age, she's probably either dead, cripplingly old, or has created some kind of necromantic device to keep her alive (like a phylactery). Also note: full armor is a really strange thing for an elf to wear, nevermind something as rigid as crystal, and Lletya wasn't established until after the elven civil war in the fourth age, so she was probably not born there.

Also... I'm pretty sure that image is of a male elf. (I've seen it before.)