Elic is an álfr, or Nordic elf, a sub-race of elvenfolk renowned for their golden, godlike beauty. It was, in fact, these magnificent beings who inspired the elves in J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy. He is six feet, six inches in height, with blond hair worn quite long, striking blue eyes, and a sense of smell nearly as keen as that of a bloodhound, when he chooses to focus it.
He is unsure of his exact birth date, but it is safe to say that he was born some 3,000 years ago in Norway. For many years he lived in peace among the coastal hunter-gatherers of that land, who honored him as a minor deity (this being before the rise of their major deities). They made regular sacrifices to him of food and, to appease his insatiable lust, young women with whom to mate.
Elic's sex drive, more powerful by far than that of the average elf, is the result of an accident of birth. Due to a random mutation, of which nonhumans tend to be particularly susceptible, Elic is a type of incubus known as a dusios. Although Elic spends the vast majority of his time as a male, he is technically, like all dusii, neither male nor female, and inherently barren—ironic, in that he is a creature intent upon procreation.
The word "deuce," meaning "two," was derived from the Latin name for this race of incubi because of their sequentially hermaphroditic nature. All dusii, including Elic, can take a female form in order to copulate with exceptionally virile males, which they do to acquire high-quality seed, only to morph back into males in order to transfer that seed to a human female. The offspring that result from these unions are conferred with extraordinary extrasensory and spiritual faculties. Throughout history, most of the world's great prophets and seers, as well as the most gifted of my druidic ancestors, were conceived in this fashion.
Elic is the type of incubus to whom Thomas Aquinas was referring in the 13th century when he wrote, "...if sometimes children are born from intercourse with demons, this is not because of the semen emitted by them, or from the bodies they have assumed, but through the semen taken from some man for this purpose, seeing that the same demon who acts as a succubus for a man becomes an incubus for a woman."
Franciscus Vallesius, the 16th century physician to Phillip II of Spain, wrote, with uncanny accuracy, "What incubi introduce into the womb is not any ordinary human semen in normal quantity, but abundant, very thick, very warm, rich in spirits and free from serosity. This, moreover, is an easy thing for them, since [as female succubi] they merely have to choose ardent, robust men, whose semen is naturally very copious, and with whom the succubus has relations; and then the incubus copulates with women of a like constitution, taking care that both shall enjoy a more than normal orgasm, for the greater the venereal excitement the more abundant is the semen."
In fact, we now know that the process is a remarkable feat of physiological sleight of hand. During the transformation from succubus to incubus following sex with a human male, the captured ejaculate is enveloped by tissue that reforms itself into seminal vesicles, the pair of glands just above the prostate that continually produce fluid. The fuller they become, the more easily one is aroused, since ejaculation is the only way the vesicles can empty themselves. Just as a man realizes he's about to climax and there's no stopping it, his sperm cells mix with seminal fluid from the vesicles and prostatic fluid from the prostate to form the semen released during orgasm. In the case of a dusios like Elic, the captured seed is imbued, during transmutation from female to male, with certain of his own supernatural characteristics, hence the exceptional powers of his progeny.
Elic and Lili share a centuries-old love that is doomed by Elic's biological imperative, which is to beget human offspring with mystical gifts. Sex is everything to him, but he is only capable of mating with human females—and theoretically with a select few follets, but he tells me he’s never yet met one with whom he can complete the act.
Nor can he find release through masturbation, thus leaving him in a state of relentless sexual hunger, the better to fulfill his reproductive mission. He can have sex with a woman without first capturing a man’s seed, but in that event, there will be no chance of conception. To him, this is the ultimate casual sex, little more than a bodily function to relieve his persistent lust. Since he and Lili can never make love to each other, they will sometimes engage in a ménage à trois or other form of group sex—the closest they can ever get to experiencing the joys of fleshly union together.
From the Histoire Secrète de Grotte Cachée by Adrien Morel,
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