Hounds/Elf

Elf Companions
Any animal can be fashioned into an elf companion, although usually it is longer lived, already social and larger than a rat. Elvish companions are trained, cultivated and raised with variants of the elfish lifestyle. They become more intelligent, magical, social and graceful than their un-elfized kin. They sometimes even develop some form of speech or at least much greater social ability. They are stronger, faster and almost always incredibly long lived. A wolf companion might be the size of a horse, longer lived than a tortoise and able to speak poetry. It is still a wolf, and it is usually aloof and arrogant to un-elfish beings/ways. But a potent and powerful creature all the same.