There are only two options, die or become strange.
If you have not done one than you have done the other. This is the way of things.
Elves are a type of ork with fungus growing in them. They began existance immediately prior to REDACTED as a zombie plague that was spreading through orken populations. Post-REDACTION it would appear that the fungal parasite that caused the zombie infection had developed into a symbiotic relation with the host and that an established culture had formed.
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Elves, being a flavor of ork, are similar to them in many ways. They have several morphs, with the queen and drone being largely similar, but they lack any other specific morphs. The average elf, which would be roughly analogus to the worker morph in an orken hive, is not a morph at all but rather a grub that is allowed to grow to adult age without receiving any caste jelly. To someone familiar with orken beauty standards an elf appears eerie, like a beautiful child with the proportions of an adult. In the narative present this isn't especially remarkable but immediately post-REDACTION this was highly concerning to most orks.
Elven society centers around a queen who is the caretaker for a world-tree and is attended to and guarded by drones. The world tree is a massive fungal growth that serves as the anchor to the hive's hive mind. All elves are able to freely converse with the hive mind, which they hear as a voice that accompanies their internal monologue when they are thinking, so long as they are near a source of elven fungus. An elf on their own isolated from the hive-mind will generally become irritated and sickly until they get close to another of their kind.