That's quite descriptive... but yes, I am. My people are called sylvari.

[Trahearne offers them a small smile. He was gawked at often enough himself after leaving the Grove for the first time, and knows how off-putting that can be at times. He doesn't want to subject them to the same treatment.]

I have seen something a little similar before. The dwarves of my world turned themselves to stone, but that was through magic, no natural occurrence. As you can imagine, the dwarf I met looked rather lackluster in comparison.