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Palettes and numbers

Click a colour to copy its hex. The same numbers are in tokens.json.

Moonstone and silver wood

Wood is silver on every outside face; honey only inside doors, window reveals, roof undersides and where hands have worn a rail.

Leaves, moss and ground

Cloth: one main colour per elf

Shade and light

Cool glow: where magic is

Well water, runes, flower hearts, moon thread, gems, hem bands, the sky's lights. Alvheim only.

Warm glow: where people are

Lanterns, windows, the seat ring's lamp. Never ember orange here: ember is the telegraph colour of danger, and there is none in Alvheim.

Glow budget per frame

Glow cores are pixels whose brightest channel is over 0.78 and that are saturated or near white. With halos the family limit of 10 % stands.

TimeGlow coresMedian lumaPixels under luma 0.08Balance in the square
Dayat most 1 % (sky excluded)0.40 to 0.50under 1 %the well glimmers; lanterns unlit
Duskat most 5 %0.25 to 0.35under 1 %about half the lanterns lit
Night (hero hour)at most 4 %0.22 to 0.30; 2nd percentile at least 0.10under 1 %cool cores at least as many as warm; on Lyktestien and at the arch warm may lead

Proportions

HeightHeads tallShoulder width
The princess1.2 m3
Outside folk, grown1.5 to 1.65 m4 to 51.6 heads
Elf child1.15 to 1.25 m3.5
Grown elf1.75 to 1.9 m51.3 heads
The queen1.95 m5.51.3 heads

The eight elves

One cloth colour and one glow colour each. The four ids in the game are kept; the four marked new are roles that wait for names.

IdWhoAge, buildClothMantleGlowCarries (a separate model)
eldridEldrid, queen, keeper of Månebrønnenold and ageless, tallestdusk violetsilver-whiteelf violetnothing; a low silver crescent on her headband
tindeTinde, lights the lanternsyoung womandeep tealmoss greenhoney (the one warm elf: she carries the fire)a teardrop lantern
viljaVilja, sings to the flowersgrown womanplumblossom pinkblossom pink
sildreSildre, watches the waterfallyoung mandeep bluespray whitemagic cyan
eldste (new)the eldervery old man, thin, clean-shavenlichen greypale mossaurora greena small harp
vever (new)the weavergrown womansilver-grey with teal bandstealmoon bluea ball of moon yarn
vokter (new)the guard at Alveportenbroad man, trimmed white beardslate bluemoonstone greymoon bluea short birch-bark horn; no weapon, no shield
barn (new)a childabout eightnight bluepale bluemoon bluea moon bell

Sizes of the things

ThingSize
Tree house (five)house 3 to 3.5 m across, floor 4.5 to 6 m up, roof scales 0.4 m, door 1.9 m
Alveporten3.3 m between the posts, 5 m tall, posts 0.6 m at the foot
Månebrønnenbasin radius 1.7 m, rim at 0.92 m, horn 4 m, court radius 3.3 m
Tingringenring radius 2.35 m, stools 0.4 to 0.5 m high
Lantern post2.6 m tall, 0.3 m at the foot, glass 0.35 m
Hanging lantern2.7 to 6.3 m over the ground
Veven (the loom)2.3 m tall
Taubrua's end posts3 m
Slab bridge over Månebekkenslab 2.5 m
Thin partsa post is at least 0.25 m at the foot, a step at least 0.12 m thick, a cord at least 5 cm
Giant treetrunk 3 to 5 m thick; all trees within 80 m of the well are this kind
Moon bells0.4 to 0.7 m tall, drifts of 3 to 7 clumps, none in the 3 m round a path's middle

Motifs

MotifMeansMaterialWhere, and how many
Crescent, lying on its back or leaningthe moon, the well, the queenmoonstone or silverstructural and large: the moon horn, the arch's top, a roof's finial, Eldrid's headband, the brooch. One per object; at most three in a frame.
Birch leafthings worn or hungcloth, silvermantle hems (five points), lantern caps, the elder's seat back, charms on cords
Rune (2 to 4 straight strokes)things that speak or do magiccut in moonstone only, glowingthe well's rim (18), the horn (5), one per run of seven path stones, one per way stone, the elder's seat. Never on wood, cloth or skin.
Fern spiralthings that grow or endwoodthe top of every post, stair ends, bench ends
Loop (two interlaced ribbons, one thick, one thin)thresholdscarved in wood onlydoor frames, the arch's posts, the bridge's posts, lantern posts. Never on stone.
Eight-petal rosemade by the weaverwoven cloth onlyone band at a hem, a blanket's border, the loom's cloth, in the elf's own glow colour; never red or white on dark

The way up in six steps

Distances are polyline lengths from the foot of Alvestien at Fjellfoten's edge. From Varden it is 440 m more along Fjellstien.

StepWhereAlong the wayTo the wellThe sign
0Fjellstien and Alvestien's foot-440 to 0 mnone by day; at night the aurora stands over Alvtinden only, with two warm pin-points on the shelf
1Fjelltjernet244 mone knee-high mossy way stone with one faint blue rune, one clump of moon bells at its foot, beside an ordinary bench
2The shoulder's six hairpins370 to 830 ma way stone at every second hairpin (three), each with a clump of bells; a silver ribbon with a leaf on the nearest birch; pale gravel for 5 m round each stone
3Taubrua (the rope bridge)830 to 864 m286 mthe first elf-made thing: two carved silver posts with spiral tops at each rim, one warm lantern on the east pair; one pale moonstone vein in the gorge wall
4Hengestien, eight hairpins beside Sildrefossen864 to 1570 m286 to 116 mmoonstone veins in the rock, one with three runes; a pair of bell clumps at each hairpin; from 577 m up, pale crowns over the cliff with small warm lights
5Lyktestien1570 to 1652 m116 to 35 ma lantern post every 11 m on alternating sides; snow ends and moss begins; the lilac-silver grade fades in from 130 m and is whole at 70 m
6Alveporten (the seam)1625 m62 meverything is whole at the arch; the well is dead ahead; Tinde or the guard stands at the left post