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In the [[Legion of Lawndale Heroes]] universe, '''The Elite''' is a worldwide group of superhumanly powered individuals whose family lines have existed for millennia, and who (through the use of their powers, as well as the political, economic, and social power that derives from the manner in which they have manipulated events) have held near-absolute power over mankind for untold ages.
The Elite is the most powerful of several such groups that have existed throughout history; of all those groups, only the collective known as the [[Twelve Clans]] have been of equal standing, force and resources in order to keep from being absorbed into The Elite or being otherwise destroyed outright. The final major series of open conflicts occurred just over one thousand years ago, at the end of the 9th Century A.D.; that conflict, known to The Elite as the War of Assimilation, was ended due to the efforts of [[Majel Carlyle]], the newly-minted High Chair of the Clan Carlyle and her Lord Consort (a man known only as Lexin, who agreed to take on the Carlyle name as his own. Together, they led the leaders of the Twelve Clans and The Elite to a series of agreements that ended the War and kept the peace for over a thousand years.
==Elite social castes==
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*'''Humans''': These are members of the Elite who are born into a family of individuals who have all been born with superhuman abilities - and who can prove their lineage (known as 'proof of pedigree') through documentation.
*'''Cuckoos''': These are Elite members who are born to families with no prior record of superhuman births. While there is some prejudice towards 'cuckoos' (named after the bird which lays its eggs in the nests of other birds, so that those birds will hatch and raise them), they are able to obtain rank and stature in Elite society as 'Humans' do.
*'''Grubworms''': The derisive term used by the Elite when referring to ordinary, non-powered human beings.
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==Known Elite members==
*[[Anthony Canatella]]
*[[Robert Berg]] (killed in '[[Not So Different]]')
*[[Magnus Bethke]] (Executive Director for North America twenty years ago)
*[[John Dynell]]
*[[Anthony Edwards]] (revealed in LLH Chapter Fourteen)
*[[Cassandra Farrington]]
*[[Colin Farrington]]
*[[David Allen Farrington]]
*[[Alexander Milhous Graham]]
*[[Jala Javarti]]
*[[Alimah Kaur]]
*[[Chandni Kaur]]
*[[Natalia Luchinni]]
*[[Sarasota Meyers]]
*[[Carey Phillips-Bethke]] (rendered brain-dead in '[[Not So Different]]')
*[[Gunther Schultz]]
*[[Nicho Silvestre]]
*[[Furmann Singh]]
*[[Angier Sloane]]
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*[[Elsie Sloane]]
*[[Tom Sloane]]
*[[Edmund Stephens]]
*[[Kennedy "Kay" Stoudemire]]
*[[Lance Strine]]
*[[Victoria Todds]]
*[[Alberto Valdez]]
*[[Sujata Varma]] (killed in '[[Not So Different]]')
*[[Thomas Villacana]]
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