Elven Host

The Elven Host is the dominant social structure of the Elven Plane, with a hive mind-like structure in which children have absolute mental and physical obedience to their progenitors and have absolute mental and physical control over their progeny. This is due to the Joining, the "voluntary" (read mandatory) ceremony of coming of age, in which certain glands are removed from the progeny and absorbed by the progenitor. A similar event takes place during mating rites, which is why Elven Host members usually mate for life.