If you're a 100% pure human being, you'll probably stop reading this pretty soon. Most humans refuse to believe that they are not the only walking, talking species on this beautiful planet of ours. And if you're an elf, what the heck are you doing on the Internet? Even Verizon hasn't set up a connection on the North Pole, far as I know.
Yes, that's right. Elves are the other humanoid meat, my human friends. They are anatomically almost identical to humans, except for their short stature (you would probably mistake them for "little people") and their gigantic limbic systems. That's the part of the brain that controls emotions, creativity, and extrasensory perception.
The elfin species reproduces asexually, even though elves have all the necessary naughty parts to do the deed the human way. Generally, though, they just don't have any interest.
But every so often, an elfin male that is raised by humans taps into the ancient part of his brain that wants a little bom-chicka-baum-bom. If he can find a willing human female (which ain't easy given the heightist attitude that causes women to deny even the most lovely man, simply because he is only knee high), he might just send a few of his swimmers on a collision course with a human egg and POW! A helfan is born.
Half-human, half-elf, helfans are generally on the short side (females under 5'1", males under 5'5"). Their brains have relatively large limbic systems. They can see things that humans can't, such as ghosts and auras. They often have synesthesia, "seeing" sounds as colors and shapes, and they experience flashes of extra-sensory perception. As a result of their exceptional abilities, most helfans spend most of their lives going in and out of mental institutions, taking psychiatric medications and seeking treatments for their "illness".
