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The Slightly Older Ones
These foes only told of in the legends of the Mean Elves is said to rule the Darkunder.
Cheifing over the countless minions of the under-underworld they rule the darkness with an Iyorn fist. (Or claw, tentacle, tendril or pincer. Nobody is quite sure and it differs from which Mean Elf is doing the telling.)
"It is lucky for you that we have accompanied you Overworlders into
The Underdeep," said
Cutter Glade, "for great are the perils of this land."
"Yeah, a bat-mouse was kind of hovering around my face earlier, and it was really creeping me out." said S'yrf'yl.
"Do not mock us, fuzzball!" snapped Healix Freena, "for there are far fouler things lurking in the darkness than you have seen, where the Slightly Older Ones watch with a thousand eyes, gnashing their maws of razor-sharp teeth and polishing the mighty claws and pincers that protrude from their massive tentacles!"
Quailheart snorted in contempt and rolled his eyes.
"You Vanilla Elves know nothing of the Empire of Dark," growled Freena, jumping in front of Quailheart and drawing close to his face, "For here from every corner the wailing of tortured souls can be heard if one listens closely enough... if one has attuned themselves to the cries of the ancients with steel and leather."
S'yrf'yl leaned in and whispered into Quailheart's ear: "Dude... I think she's hitting on you."
-- from The Dawn of Unlight's Setting, Part 2: Victory's Deathknell
If the Slightly Older Ones exist (which any Mean Elf is sure to try to convince you of) they possibly are a few very old Dyemons or perhaps a few remaining Encients, living deep underground to flee the defilement of the overworld left by the War of the Encients.
Other than Mean Elf sources, there are few other documented references to the Slightly Older Ones. One prominant non-mean elf quote is a quote captured from the Eldritch Beings Beyond Comprehension by a young Elemenstor.
"Dude...the Slightly Older Ones...those dudes are like...totally old...and totally harshing my buzz."
-Mashmakhazghanyanu (Who later vomited acid on the unlucky Elemenstor's shoes.)
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