Maybe someone can remedy that?
That's where you come in. We just present our concept of the world... if you as GM don't like something, change it for your game!
Calistria doesn't mesh with my idea of what elves are. The descriptions, "mercurial, detached," and "freedom from commitments and freedom to pursue what one desires" do, but not vengefulness, scheming and vindictiveness. Maybe someone can remedy that? Is that just Pathfinder's take on elves?
Nice.
Gotta love those wretched, vengeful, scheming, and vindictive Hrimdalfar.
Maybe this Calistria doesn't just serve the happy frolicky elves in the surface forests.
Maybe she serves the drow, too.
And maybe some of the frolicky surface elves are vindictive too, scheming to slowly and painfully kill every last elf-slaying tree-killing orc on the planet in revenge for ancient battles and ancient deaths.
Maybe even, there is one elf, or half-elf, who is plotting and scheming revenge on Neo for fighting to overthrow the matrix...
Elves don't have to agree to every aspect of Calistria's being.
They see in her the ideal of elven beauty and appreciate her audacity and lust for life.
Most elves don't bear a grudge easily, but they don't have to. Calistria doesn't hold the elven race in an iron grip. Elves are polytheistic in nature, and Calistria isn't jealous.
Of course, if you get an elf to bear a grudge against you, you'll find out just how vengeful and implacable an elf can be.
By the way: Elves don't really shun commitments. In fact, their concept of honour revolves around their absolute commitment to their friends. It's just about the greatest sin for an elf to betray a friend.
Maybe this Calistria doesn't just serve the happy frolicky elves in the surface forests.Maybe she serves the drow, too.
No, they're demon-worshippers. Though many of them really are vengeful, they're usually not determined enough to really do something about it.
If Calistria's Avenger aspect really held sway among the traitor elves, they's have boiled out of the Darklands to eradicate the elves (or die trying) long ago.
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Calistria doesn't mesh with my idea of what elves are. The descriptions, "mercurial, detached," and "freedom from commitments and freedom to pursue what one desires" do, but not vengefulness, scheming and vindictiveness. Maybe someone can remedy that? Is that just Pathfinder's take on elves?
The thing to remember is that Calistria isn't the goddess of the elves. There's actually not a single specific "elf deity" in Golarion, in fact. Desna's probably a much more "classic" elven deity. There are several other elf-specific deities but they're not as widespread as Desna or Calistria (we talk about these other elven deities in "Elves of Golarion" and "Gods and Magic").
The core 20 deities (of which Calistria is one) are drawn from all manner of cultures on Golarion. Each of these cultures (the various human ethnicities and the various demi-human races) had their own pantheons at some point in the past, but today, after all of these cultures have mixed and mingled, their various pantheons have mixed and mingled as well. The result is an "Inner Sea" pantheon of 20 "core" deities. Calistria was merely the elven god (of several) who won out the popularity contest when humans (of 14 different ethnicities), elves, dwarves, halflings, half-orcs, half-elves, and gnomes mixed together.
So today, although Calistria is an elf, she is no longer ONLY an elven goddess.
EDIT: And yeah; Calistria and the drow do NOT get along. The drow worship demons.