Lorithon

Lorithon is the god of music and the elves. It can appear as either a beautiful male or female elf.

The Elves of the world share a single soul, it is the soul of Lorithon. Lorithon divided up his soul and sent some to the material plane as elves to collect experiences. On their death, the souls are gathered back up, and the experiences of the elves are incorporated back into the godhead, being woven into the Song.

Unless slain, Elves will live forever, but at some point in their lives they get a longing to return to the godhead and share their experiences to be woven into the Song of Lorithon. At this time they drink a deadly but gentle poison that puts them to sleep and kills their mortal body.

Elves that have experienced terrible trauma sometimes avoid death in order to not bring discord into the Song. These elves, living well past the days of the longing, are often slightly unhinged.

Other Gods and goddesses covet the souls of the elves, and some elves were drawn away from Lorithon to the worship of Lilith and Rhadgast. These great schisms reduced and weakened Lorithon and are considered a great heresy by the Elves of the material plane. To turn from Lorithon and the song is still occasionally done, and these heretics are outcast of elven communities. An elf that has forsaken Lorithon can be reconnected through penance and prayer, but the deities that drew them away rarely permit the return, and will try and stop it.

The souls of half-elves are essentially non-elf (human) and do not connect to the Godhead, though they sometimes worship Lorithon anyway as either part of a pantheon or as a patron.