Elves

Elves are an ancient, magical, and extremely long-lived race whose hidden realms are scattered here and there across the remote places of Urva. Unlike humans, orcs, or dwarves, they are few in number. Though once they were much more numerous and were masters of the world before the younger races were born, today they do not dominate whole continents or control great empires. They are secretive and reclusive, and rarely show themselves to outsiders. Most humans will go their entire life without ever seeing an elf, and indeed many consider them no more than a folk-tale. 
The elves are the first and eldest of the mortal races (though the dragons came before them), and so are sometimes called the Firstborn or the Elder Race. They were created by the Aiyu-Atma deities Aurhion and Nysseia, whose seven daughters are also the goddesses of the elven pantheon, the Aeiur Aedris.
Physically, elves are tall, slender, and graceful, with long limbs and beautiful, fine-boned features. Their hair, eyes, and skin vary considerably.The elves are divided into many kindreds or tribes: The High Elves who dwell in hidden vales among snowcapped mountain peaks; the Wood Elves who live in deep forests, and the Wild Elves who are their savage cousins; the Sea Elves, peerless mariners who dwell on remote isles and make their havens on uninhabited coasts; and the Dark Elves, cursed outcasts, the most notorious and feared of whom are the Drow, worshippers of vile Yllith.