Every elf can use these powers, to some extent. Most people can do more than these, too, but all share these.
Sending
Sending is the telepathic ability to bring two minds together. Each elf has a different "voice" they speak with, just like everyone's mouth-voice is different. Some elves have soft Sending voices, some very loud and sharp. With each power the elf uses, their voice may be tinted with a different feel -- someone with fire shaping might have a mind that is hot, or a water shaper might have one which feels like rolling waves. Each person has a limit to how far away the other mind they contact can be, or how many minds they can speak to at once. It's like trying to speak to one person in a crowded room: you can hear the others but you don't always listen to what they're saying. There is always a kind of mental buzzing in everyone's head, that is the other minds around them. Sending only listens in on people when they're actually trying to say something, it isn't like "reading minds", that is another power. Some elves are very strong at Sending, or they can speak at greater distances than others, like "yelling" to someones mind from across a wide area. Sending mainly makes hunting and being silent easier. If you don't have to yell across a meadow to your hunting partner, you won't scare off your prey!
A strong version of this power is called Coersion. With it, an elf can try and overpower another elf's will power and make them do something they might not otherwise want to. It isn't something they can use to control a mind, but if someone is trying to haggle for a better trade on an item, or get someone special to join a hunting party, break up a fight, or like that, they can use it.
Magic Feeling
Elves can sense where magic has been used, or if it is being used around them. Some people are very good at this power, but most can only do it weakly. Some people can use this ability so well they can sense which powers another elf has, without that elf even using those powers! People who do this often help parents of young elves decide how to train their children and who to have teach them. This power usually only works very close to the elf using it. Touching something is the best way, but some folks can sense things as far away as they can see!
A specific, but separate power related to Magic Feeling is called Deep Sensing. With this power the elf can sense emotions and physical states instead of just magic. They can find out if someone is hurt, or happy or sad, if they like something or some one, if they're being honest or not. It's a very difficult power to master, and it goes very close to the elf's "soul" or inner self. So the people using it must be very careful not to offend the person it's being used on. You cannot lie to someone who has this power at all, because they can tell automatically if you're telling the truth. They can sense if someone is keeping a secret, but not what that secret might be.
Animal/Wolf Bonding
This power is used by almost every elf to bring an animal of some kind to them. Nearly every elf has a bond animal, but some don't. Of those who do, they usually are chosen by the large wolves of this world. If the person resides near the ocean, they often have a dolphin or other sea animal, bird or something similar to bond to. There are many different types of animals to bond, some of them are described here, but others can be created or made up too. The bond between an elf and their friend is unbreakable. The animal generally will live as long as their elfin partner, even if others of their breed don't. Depending on the intelligence of each animal, the bond beast can be used to spy on things, scout out, hunt, guard, or just to protect and talk to the elf. If something scares or excites the beast, the elf will feel it too, only distantly.
There are different versions of this power, the main one is Wolf Bonding, which applies specifically to wolves. With it, at a strong level, they will be able to understand the common communications of wolves, as they bark or howl, their body language. Animal Bonding also can do this, with a more generic view of other animals such as felines, canines, avians and whatnot.
Control Animals is an important power used in addition to, in conjunction with, or in elves without the Animal Bonding power. They can not only sense, but in fact control the actions of animals as if they were using Hypnosis on them. With this power, an elf can sense through the animals' senses, or cause the animal to perform in ways they would not normally do (such as walk into a trap, or actually stand up on two legs and act like a person, or alert someone that the elf is in danger by pantomiming). This ability can be focused even farther by selecting a certain kind of animal (Bees, cats, birds, fish) and only using it on them.
A weaker version of the power is Sensing Animals. With it, the elf can feel if an animal is nearby, what kind it is, if it's healthy and its general emotional state. However people with a lot of this ability often find it hard to hunt because they can feel the animals when they're chasing after them, and it is very frightning to be connected to an animal while it dies.
