List of characters in Elfquest - Definition

This is a list of characters in Elfquest , the science fiction/fantasy comic book series created in 1978 by Wendy and Richard Pini.

Initial list mainly taken from the original series, 1978 - 1984. Later series introduce many eights of additional characters.

Wolfrider Elves

• Bearclaw; male, deceased. He was Cutter's father by Joyleaf, and the son of Mantricker and Thornflower. The tenth chief of the Wolfriders, Bearclaw was known for having quite a temper, and led his tribe of forest dwelling elves in a time when indigenous humans started trusting and respecting less and less the "point-eared" demons. Bearclaw followed his ancestor Two-Spear's path to war, which eventually led to the death of many fellows wolfriders such as Shale, Eyes High and Crescent. Years later, his own lifemate Joyleaf was killed - with half the tribe - by Madcoil, an half-longtooth half-snake monster born from a pool of bad magic. Devastated by grief, Bearclaw faced Madcoil himself, and was subsequiently killed, but not before he could pass the chieftainship over to his son, Cutter. Bearclaw had long rust coloured hair, dark eyes and face fur in the form of a short beard and moustaches. His soul name was GRENN.
• Joyleaf; female, deceased. She was Cutter's mother by Bearclaw, as well as Treestump's sister and Dewshine's aunt. Every bit sweet and loving as her lifemate Bearclaw was rogue and savage, she was often the calm to balance his most fiery side and the voice of reason into the tribe. Her relationship with Bearclaw started as a stormy one but once their son was born she slowly started melting him into a better chief than he'd ever been. She was killed years later by the monster Madcoil, while she was with a scouting group to find out the source of the bad magic pool; her death eventually led Bearclaw insane and brought him sacrifing himself for the sake of the tribe, but it was only their son Cutter who finally succeeded in killing Madcoil and avenging both parent's deaths. Joyleaf had long blond hair woven with leaves and deep blue eyes. Her soulname was DEHL.
• Rain male, deceased. He was the healer of the Wolfriders during Bearclaw's time, and thought quite powerful, he was none as strong as Leetah. With his magic he helped One-Eye easing the pain of his lost eye but couldn't restore what humans took. At the same way, he saved Cutter from sure death and did his best to guarantee new life to the tribe - eventually trying to force Recognition upon himself. Rain fathered at least two known children, Pike and Rainsong, thought the mother/s? name is unknown. Rumors he was also Shale's father come from his despair over Shale's death. He was killed by MadCoil - alongside Joyleaf and some others - while he was on a rescue party to find out where the pool of bad magic came from. Rain had short orange colored hair, dark eyes and face fur in the form of sidelocks.
• Cutter: male, alive. He is the main hero of Elfquest and eleventh chief of the Wolfriders. His name is derived partly from his skill with a sword, but also from his desire to cut through lies and deception and uncover the truth. Son of Bearclaw and Joyleaf, he lost both his parents at the hand of Madcoil, but avenged them by killing the monster and leading the sixteen survivors to a time of quiet. At least until humans burnt the forest where Wolfriders lived; alongside his fellow soulbrother, Skywise, Cutter had to led the Wolfriders away, and so he did. They were tricked into the Burning Waste desert by the trolls, but after a gruelling journey discovered another village of dark skinned elves where Cutter found his lifemate, the beautiful healer Leetah, as well as a lifelong enemy - Leetah's suitor Rayek. Later he moved on, with a burning desire to find other sundered elf kin and gather them all together, which he actually did by finding out the existence of the Gliders of Blue Mountain and the warlike snow elves known as Go-Backs. Reasonable and kind, Cutter is now leading his tribe back at their native Father Tree Holt after a particularly bloody war with human landlord Grohmul Djun. He and Leetah fathered the only other known pair of twins besides Brill and Krill - mystic Suntop/Sunstream and his wolf-blooded sister Ember, who now leads a branch of her own tribe. Cutter has long ash-blond hair, deep blue eyes and well developed facefur in the form of sidelocks. It is rumored that Cutter will undergo some kind of psychic trauma in a later story, which will cause him to lose his mind and memory. His soul name is TAM.
• Sunstream; male, alive. He was formerly known as Suntop, the male child of Cutter and Leetah. While they were still in Leetah's womb, Ember called wolf blood to her, while Sunstream called for "something else". He's an immortal with incredible magic powers such as astral projection and magic feeling, which makes him aware whenever something or someone around him has been modified by elfin magic. He lately helped his parents to restore the Father Tree Holt by purging a pool of bad magic left by Madcoil, and had his named changed to Sunstream to commemorate it. There are rumors that he will Recognize a Wavedancer girl, Brill, in the future. Sunstream is also destined to become the new Master of the Palace of the High Ones, task he's practicing with High One Timmain and stargazer Skywise. He has a twin sister called Ember and they have always been very close - despite the obvious differences between them. Sunstream has long butter yellow hair, blue eyes and dark skin.
• Ember female, alive. She's the female daughter of Cutter and Leetah, and Sunstream's twin sister, thought as different from him as day from night. When the twins were still in Leetah's womb, Ember called wolf-blood (and its subsequient mortality) to her, while her brother called for some unknown magic of the High Ones time. As a result of that, the Wolfriders all saw in Ember their next chieftess, and knew someday she'd have earned the chief lock from her father, Cutter. However, in her early years, this young tomboy was often jealous of how everybody's attentions seemed focussed entirely on her brother; she thought he and Leetah could step on the stage whenever a magic user was needed, while she, Ember, had to stay back and wait 'til her own adulthood would have come - which wasn't definitely something at her taste. Redlance's supportive aid, alongside Ember's very self-confident and outgoing nature, somewhat eased things a bit; yet, by the time of her teen age, the young daughter of Cutter was almost constantly at odds with her chieftain father (in a drama echoed, many years before, by Kahvi - and lately even Snakeskin). When Rayek tried to answer the plea for help echoing straight from the time of the High One's crash on the World of Two Moons, Cutter sternly forbade Ember to follow her mother, Suntop, Skywise, Ekuar and Trinket in the Palace; believing he had no trust in her, Ember went anyway - and as a result of that she was stolen, with the rest of her family, when Rayek drove the Palace faraway in the future. Here Ember lived what to her seemed but a night; however, when they came back to the Now, she learnt over 1000 years had passed for her father, and finally understood that Cutter's harshness was not to be seen as lack of faith. At this time she also came along her very first lovemate, Mender the healer, and they shared a somehow idillyac time together - often agreeing on what was important, and what wasn't. Ember, however, felt Mender was way too much like her, and when her father chose to split the tribe in half to face the Shards War, she chose her mother Leetah to take care of the health of her branch of WolfRiders, while Mender would have gone fighting alongside Cutter and his warriors. They settled on a new holt to preserve the Way of the WolfRiders and hunt down the monsters left behind by Winnowill. It was there Ember met Teir, a mysterious plainsdwelling elf who enchanted her more than she'd have ever thought possible. After a somehow stormy relationship worsened by Mender's jealously and Ember's sometimes not that smart choices as a chieftess, the two are now close to the point of being lifemates and while she's probably given him her soulname, Ember still doesn't want to force Recognition, but patiently wait until the High Ones will give her and Teir a baby of their own. Much matured since her infancy, Ember has flame red wavy hair long below her waist, bluegreen eyes (thought often depicted to be either blue or green) and a slightly tan complexion, paler than her mother's and darker than her brother's. Her soulname is unknown.
• Skywise: male, alive. The tribe's stargazer never knew his parents, Shale and Eyes High, and the few memories he has of his mother are increased by the tales of the tribe's elders about their tragic deaths. This led to a general mistrust of humans which accompanied Skywise through all his life. Cutter's best friend and "brother in all but blood", Skywise is his soulbrother as well as closest confidant, second chief and at times even furmate. Their relationship lasts since both elves were cubs and Cutter's friendship surely helped filling the void left in Skywise's life by the early loss of his parents. This elf is definitely not a depressive kind of guy however, and thought after the death of his first lovemate Foxfur at the hand of Madcoil he tried not to tie himself too much to a single elf (besides Cutter, of course), his adventures as a flirt and lady's man are way more numerous than any WolfRider's. He's been seen sharing his furs with Maleen, Ruffel and Vurdah when he was at the Sun Village; then he found a somewhat longer terms lovemate in the sad-eyed glider scout, Aroree, and then again he and Newstar shared some time together after the whole Blue Mountain affair. Yet Skywise's greatest love is to the stars, whose secrets he yearns to know. This and his silver colored hair is what links him to the High One astronomer, Sefra, who's probably Skywise's many-times ancestor. It has also been hinted he will find out what Recognition truly is with Timmain, the only resident High One who's woven an unusually deep bond with the sweet hearted stargazer of the WolfRiders since Skywise's wolf-friend, Starjumper, was killed by Dodia's jack-wolf, Skimsand. Rumors the child of this Recognition will be Jink, a flirtatious elfess of future times. After the whole accident with the Palace of the High Ones, when they found themselves stolen faraway in the future of Abode, Skywise begged Leetah to take his wolf-blood away, for he wanted to live 'til he'd have seen Cutter again. However this choice has caused him some troubles and tantrums over the years, and he's just managed to come to terms to who he is and where he's going, reluctantly accepting to someday see his soulbrother die but also knowing their spirits won't be apart, even then. Skywise has shoulder-length poofy silver hair and silverly blue hair. His soul name is FAHR.
• Strongbow; male, alive. Son of Trueflight and an unknown WolfRider male, he inherited his mother's skills and is the Wolfriders' current and best archer. Now a respected elder in his tribe, this silent elf used to be somewhat jealous of Cutter in the past, especially for the unusually deep bond that tied Strongbow to Cutter's father Bearclaw - his soul brother. Strongbow doesn't say much, thought he'll stubbornly fight for his beliefs and what he thinks it's better doing. Lifemated to the tribe's tanner Moonshade, their relationship started way back, under Bearclaw's leadership, with the birth of a female daughter named Crescent. The girl had apparently inherited all of her father's aim and skills, and she might have been a great archer too hadn't humans killed her early in her teens. Strongbow and Moonshade somewhat managed to overcome the sorrow over her loss, but it took both a great amount of grief and a second Recognition - resulting, this time, with the birth of a male cub, named Dart. Their family had just rebuilt when humans burnt the Wolfrider's holt, forcing Cutter's tribe to flee into the desert. While the three of them apparently adapted quite well to the peaceful life of Sorrow's End, Strongbow hadn't apparently forgot the causes that forced his tribe to a massive flight, and when humans bumped in the Sun Village, he was pretty much against leaving them live to tell the others of their kind about that. Later on he was caught and tortured by the Glider's Lord Winnowill until Moonshade and the rest of the tribe came to help; he recovered from the mental wounds inflicted by the Black Snake, but ever since he's been even more cautious about not speaking a single word - preferring, instead, to telephatically send. He was reunited with his son, who chose to stay at Sorrow's End as their new hunter, right after Blue Mountain collapsed. Later on he and Moonshade split again by the time of the Shards War, with Strongbow following Cutter and his warriors to fight the evil Djun and Moonshade offering her council and (at time) disagreements to the Wolfriders new leader, Ember. Reunited again at Goodtree's Rest, Strongbow and Moonshade play a significant (though not central) role in the 2004 graphic novel, The Searcher and the Sword, in which the receive a message from the spirit of their deceased daughter Crescent, foretelling "joy above and danger below". Strongbow has long burned reddish-brown hair, dark eyes and a short beard. His soul name is WYL.
• Moonshade - female, alive. Lifemate to Strongbow and the tribe's tanner and tailor. Mother to Dart and grandmother to Bowki. Equally conservative in her attitudes, she is completely devoted to Strogbow and defends him and follows himn, even if she believes him wrong, as seen when they leave the Blue Monuntain, thus seperating themselves from the rest of the tribe. They parted again, when Moonshade were chosen to follow Ember and Strongbow Cutter. She had a hard time, missing Strongbow and the fear of never seeing him again, coupled with Ember, whom she saw as nothing more than a half-grown cub. Disagreemnet soon broke out between Moonshade and the young chieftess. It took a false vision of her long death daugther Crescent to build a bridge between the advisor and her new chief. After the Shards War she reunited with Strongbow, and in the 2004 graphic novel, The Searcher and the Sword they are together again. Here they receive a true vision of Crescent ('sending' from the Palace). They reconize each other again, and she bears life to a daughter, whose name we do not know yet. Her soulname is Eyrn.
• Dart - Male, alive, Son of Strongbow and Moonshade. When the Wolfriders and Leetah left Sorrow's End to find Cutter and Skywise, he volunteered to stay behind to teach the Sun Folk how to hunt and defend themselves. He was successful enough to create a fighting force of wolfriding warriors even without them having Wolfrider blood.
• Nightfall (Soul Name:Twen) - Female, alive. A close friend of Cutter and mate to Redlance.
• Redlance (Soul Name: Ulm) - Male, alive. Best tracker of the Wolfriders and a treeshaper. Originally named Redmark until he saved Bearclaw from a big cat by way of his favourite move with a spear, planting it in front of a charging opponent so that the enemy would impale himself his/her own momentum. Nightfall and Redlance are not recognized, but following the traumatic events of the Wolfriders' battle of the trolls, Nightfall brought Redlance out of a catatonic state by joining her soul to his, so that not even death could divide them. They then persuaded Leetah to induce Recognition so that they could have a child.
• Tyleet female, alive. Daughter of Nightfall and Redlance and the product of a induced Recognition. Has a particular talent for interacting with humans, and even went so far as to adopt an abandoned human "cub", with bittersweet consequences. She recognized Scouter, a development that his Lifemate, Dewshine, approved of. Her relationship with Nightfall illustrates the effect of elfin longevity, since after several centuries the age difference between them was no longer significant and they behaved more like sisters than mother and daughter.
• Pike male, alive. The product of a healer- intervened conception and named for his weapon preference for spears.
• Rainsong female, deceased. Daughter of Rain, half-sister of Pike, mother of Wing and Newstar. Was known for being highly prolific as far as elves go.
• Woodlock male, deceased. Devoted father and mate to Rainsong. Usually gentle and placid, he became almost frighteningly enraged when he believed humans might pose a threat to his children.
• Newstar
• Wing
• Clearbrook
• One-eye - male, deceased. A Wolfrider so named because he had one of his eyes gouged out so completely that Rain could not save it and had to settle for sealing the eye socket. He fell in battle against Guttlekraw's trolls, but before his body completely expired, Petalwing concooned it. When the body was discovered in Two-Edge's vault, Leetah attempted to heal it, but instead left in an effectively brain dead state that Clearbrook eventually decided enuthentize.
• Treestump -male, alive. The oldest of the Wolfriders and an elder who serves as an advisor to Cutter and is usually considered Second in Command of the tribe, though leadership is not his preferred role.
• Dewshine (Soul Name: Lree) female, alive. Daughter of Rillfisher and Treestump, she resembles her deceased mother, which serves as a poignant reminder to her father. Despite her frail appearance she is one of the most daring and adventurous of the Wolfriders, which has gotten her into trouble on several occasions. In Blue Mountain she Recognized Tyldak, as a result of which Winnowill learned her soul name and used it against her. Much later, when Tyleet Recognized Scouter Dewshine was not in the least jealous but was glad that Scouter now understood Recognition.
• Scouter male, alive. He possesses telescopic vision. Lifemate to Dewshine and a close friend of Skywise because he could assist with Skywise's stargazing. After Dewshine Recognized Tyldak he helped her to raise their son Windkin as a Wolfrider. Many years later he Recognized Tyleet, and Dewshine welcomed her into the relationship.

Sun Folk Elves

• Savah - female, alive. Known as the Mother of Memory. The leader of the Sun Folk and one of the oldest Elves known possessing many of the powers of the race.
• Sun-Toucher - male, alive. Sun Folk elder who is blind but prefers this state with his linked heightened mystic sensitivity that allows him to detect numerous things like people's thoughts and nature.
• Leetah - female, alive. Sorrow's End's healer of considerable power. She recognized Cutter upon their first meeting and eventually heeded the biological imperative to become his lifemate. Now lives with the Wolfriders.
• Shenshen - female, alive. Sister of Leetah. Skilled as a midwife.
• Rayek - Chief hunter before the arrival of the Wolfriders with numerous magic abilities like weak telekinesis and paralyzing stare. Eventually came to feel he was replaced by the newcomers and left. He came to Greymung's colony and rescued Ekuar who became his mentor and close companion who showed him how to increase his power. Eventually, joined the Go-Backs and later became an independent mage of still increasing power. He is something of an anti-hero; he always claims to want what is best for the elves and has plans to improve their lot, but tends to disregard the wishes of others when putting his schemes into practice. One such scheme resulted in Cutter being separated from Skywise, Leetah and his children for thousands of years. Rayek was only able to reconcile the resulting enmity by allowing Cutter to beat him half to death. Eventually he saved the elves from destruction by absorbing Winnowill's soul and keeping it a prisoner in his own body - a constant and terrible burden that the other elves can scarcely imagine.
• Ahdri - female, alive (though long feared deceased). Savah's handmaiden, constantly at her side. There has been some speculation as to the exact nature of their relationship, but on the existing evidence it would seem that Savah was only concerned with spiritual matters. Centuries after her first appearance she developed rock-shaping powers, which greatly aided in the defense of Sorrow's End when it was threatened first by the Go-backs and later by humans led by a troll. In the final invasion of Sorrow's End Ahdri deliberately sacrificed herself in place of Savah, allowing her and the other villagers to escape. Long believed dead, it was much later revealed that she was in fact in suspended animation in a Preserver cocoon awaiting healing, although still possessing sufficient consciousness to allow her to continually reshape the rocks around Sorrow's End in order to deter intruders. Her cocoon was subsequently found by Trolls who took it to the deserted caverns that once comprised Greymung's kingdom, and there she was eventually found by Treestump and Clearbrook who took her to the Palace to be healed by Leetah and joyfully reunited with many of her old friends.
• Ruffel - female, alive. Originally introduced together with Maleen and Vurdah, as one of three unnamed elf maidens who enjoyed a foursome with the Wolfrider Skywise, she acquired her name in a short story, "The Heart's Way", which explored their relationship in more detail. She has wavy red hair and a preference for light, gauzy dresses.
• Maleen - female, alive. Another of Skywise's lovemates. Has long black hair tied at the back, and a preference for dark, figure-hugging clothing.
• Vurdah - female, proabably alive. Has dark wavy hair, wears a gold half-coronet and has a preference for two-piece outfits with skirts. Her relationship with Skywise, Ruffel and Maleen was at the core of the story "The Heart's Way". The other two maidens were content to have fun with Skywise and each other, but Vurdah longed to recognize Skywise and have his children, and this led her to become jealous of the other two. She even begged Leetah to induce recognition, but Leetah reminded her that even if it were possible both partners would have to desire it equally. Vurdah even considered breaking off her relationships. Vurdah does not appear with Skywise in The Searcher and the Sword (2004) although Ruffel and Maleen do (among others!), which leaves the question open.
• Shushen- male, deceased. One of the Sun Folk trained by Dart in the defense of the village, he became one of Dart's Jackwolf Riders. By the time of the Go-back invasion he and Dart seem to have been lovemates. His death at the hands of a Go-back caused Dart and his followers to take bloody revenge, turning what could have been a short battle into a massacre.
• Dodia - female, alive. One of Dart's Jackwolf Riders, she later accompanied him on his journey to the Forevergreen.

Glider Elves

• Lord Voll - Male, deceased. Founder of the Gliders and was dedicated to preserving the ideals of the High Ones at all cost. With the introduction of the Wolfriders, he realized that his colony had grown corrupt and decadent. Was killed in transit in an attempt to reach the Palace.
• Winnowill - female, deceased. Healer of the Gliders whose mental state degraded with growing despair at perceiving herself as useless in placid society. Went on her own, encounter a troll whom she mated with to produce Two-Edge and eventually killed the father. She returned to the colony as a sadistic megalamaniac. She has been the principle Elf villain of the series. Eventually she allowed her body to die so that her spirit could wreak havoc worldwide, but Rayek intervened by absorbing her spirit into him. Since that time she has been vying for control of his body, even occasionally reshaping it into her female form, and constantly resisting his efforts to make her renounce evil.
• Tyldak - A glider who begged Winnowill to reform his body into a bat like structure to allow him have self propelled flying ability. Recognized to Dewshine.
• Kureel - A Glider who was one of the Chosen Eight hunting party. Hated the Wolfriders to the point attempting to kill the tribe after the destruction of Blue Mountain, forcing Strongbow to shoot him down fatally. Strongbow eventually approached his spirit in the Palace for his forgiveness, and Kureel, content and barely remembering the nature of his death, granted it immedidately.
• Egg/Aurek
• Female Door
• Male Door
• Aroree - Another member of the Chosen Eight who became Skywise's lover and joined the Wolfriders.

Go-back Elves

• Kahvi
• Vaya
• Yif
• Skot
• Krim
• Venka

WaveDancers elves

• Surge
• Snakeskin
• Skimmer (deceased)
• Spine
• Stormsong (deceased)
• No-Ripple
• Tumble
• Moonmirror
• Drift (deceased)
• Fairshell (deceased)
• Puffer
• Foam
• Strand
• Kroosh
• Redcrest
• Pearl (deceased)
• Coral (deceased)
• Brill
• Krill
• Haze (deceased)
• Farbright (deceased)
• Longfin
• Pirn (deceased)
• Shadowcrest (deceased)
• Sandsparkle
• Darshek
• Skimback
• Reef (also known as the Broken One)
• Salt
• Spray
• Zephyr (deceased)
• Gull (deceased)
• Wavecatcher
• Wavelet

Original WaveDancers elves

(appeared in a mini-series published in 1996 which can't be reprinted, and considered to be non-canon)

• Ausra
• Brom (deceased)
• Ailsa (deceased)
• Raenafel
• Barmek
• Jormak
• Kirith
• Rhialdor
• Sleia
• Kadva
• Lazik
• Shoseabee
• Inkbottom
• Shoresprout
• Zadori
• Burdakin
• Maron
• Paffa
• Irallee
• Sydor
• Tentus
• Tilaweed
• Hyfus
• Illora
• Korillia

Elves of Unknown Tribe

• Ekuar
• Osek
• Mekda
• Teir

Half troll, half elf

• Two-Edge son of Winnowill and an unnamed troll. He became a master blacksmith, but is mentally crippled by his abused childhood at the hands of his mother.

Preserver

• Petalwing

Greymung's Trolls

• King Greymung - was King of the Holt Trolls after refusing to leave at the command of Guttlekraw, rebelling and driving him and his followers away. Was killed when Guttlekraw's force returned in force years later.
• Scurff (sometimes given as Scurfball) - King Greymung's doorkeeper. Tried to prevent the Wolfriders from entering the caverns when the Holt was burned down, but was "persuaded" to let them in by Cutter.
• Picknose - A soldier of the Holt Trolls. Was one of the few to escape when the colony was invaded. He was told of a treasure trove to which a key in the hilt of Cutter's sword provided access. After failing to gain the key, he and his companions went up north anyway to find the treasure and were caught and enslaved in the attempt. When the Wolfriders and Go-Backs invaded the tunnels of Guttlekraw's realm, they freed Picknose and the other Holt Trolls and formed an alliance that overthrew Guttlekraw and established Picknose as King. He lost the throne while gambling and hooked up with the Wolfriders who eventually allowed him to establish a colony of his own. According to the Pinis, his name comes not from any unsavory habit but from the fact that his nose resembles a pickaxe.
• Old Maggotty - The oldest known Troll, knowledgeable in herbal lore.
• Oddbit - A maiden who is an oppurtunist of considerable enterprise.

Guttlekraw's Trolls

• King Guttlekraw - King of the Trolls of Frozen Mountain. Had a fanatical hatred for Elves, possibly encouraged by Two-Edge. This hate extended to keeping rockshaping elves in brutal slavery and worked to permanently seal the Palace of the High Ones from all access. Was defeated and killed at the hands of the Go-Backs, Wolfriders and the Holt Trolls.
• Numerous unnamed wariors

Humans

• Spirit Man - A shaman for the Holt human tribe. In his religious fanaticism, he set the Holt ablaze in retaliation for a previous battle with the Wolfrider and was killed for it.
• Tabak - One of the Spirit Man's warriors, killed by Cutter to prevent him from sacrificing Redlance. His death led to the destruction of the Holt.
• Aro
• Thaya
• Dro
• Aro and Thaya's unnamed child
• Nonna - A human artist who was the first human whom the Wolfriders found was sympathetic to them. Is now, with her huband, Adar, commemorated in the Wolfriders' Howls, the only humans so honoured. Loosely based on Wendy Pini herself.
• Adar - Nonna's husband, a member of Olbar's tribe. Banished for taking a wife from another tribe, he later returned and persuaded Olbar to take them back with a little help from the "spirits" Cutter and Skywise. Loosely based on Richard Pini.
• Bone Woman - Shamaness to Olbar's tribe who used bones for scrying. Was eventually cast out for her plotting against Nonna and Adar and the Elves.
• Olbar - Leader of a village of Humans and one of the first in his tribe to respect the Elves as equals. First seen in the Elfquest sidebar story "Homespun" in Epic Illustrated.
• Thief - A man whose original name was stripped from him by Olbar as punishment for some serious crime. Tried to murder Cutter and Skywise for the lodestone and was killed in the attempt.
• Malak - A young man of Olbar's tribe who failed his trial of manhood and eloped with Olbar's daughter Selah. Olbar and his men pursued them into the Forbidden Grove, but were driven back by Petalwing's band of Preservers. The young lovers thanked the friendly "spirits", which then wrapped them in suspended animation cocoons while they slept. About a year later they were discovered by Cutter, who made good his name by cutting them out, and they left to find a new home.
• Selah - Olbar's daughter, lover of Malak. Rumor has it that Malak and Selah were based on a couple the Pinis knew.
• Kakuk

Monster

• Madcoil - A murderous monster accidentally created when a wildcat and a large snake, locked in mortal combat, disturbed a pool of decayed magic that was also hit with lightning at that exact moment. That combination of elements created the monster with a senseless lust for murder using its massive size, claws and psionic powers to confuse its prey to its advantage. Apparently, it attacked both the human colonies and the Wolfriders, causing numerous deaths before it was defeated and killed by the Elves under the leadership of Cutter. It was later revealed that the mutual hatred between Bearclaw and a human chief had partially reawakened the spell and fueled the monster's rage.

See also

• List of comic books
• Elf
• Elfquest
• Elves (Elfquest)