Elf

**Elves**, were a widespread and highly influential humanoid race. Their distinguishing features included an average height between 5'10 and 6'4, eyes which were slanted diagonally with slight eliptical irises and pupils, long faces and noses, fair skin no matter what color it was, androgynous hairless builds which hardly varied between men and women, and pointed ears between seven and nine inches long. They could see better than most, including a degree of darkvision, they were also difficult to magically charm.

Elves didn't sleep, instead going into a resting meditative dream known as a trance or a reverie at will from which they retained their outside senses (they just weren't focused on them) and from which they could easily wake up. For the Drow trances were black and silent, a punishment for their betrayal of Corellon, and a consequence of another punishment from Corellon, a lack of past lives, but Drow found their empty trances to be a refreshing peace from the commotion of waking life. For the rest of the Elves trances showed them sections of their past lives, typically from the same family, and if not the same region, in their youth (from birth to around 110), previous memories for most of their lives, and in old age memories of Elves near them (around 700 onward), this gave them a detatched perspective leading many Elves to focus on collecting memories rather than material possessions. Elves were occasionally known to sleep, the most common way was for them to pass out from extreme physical trauma or extreme exhaustion, but they could also be forced to sleep from very powerful magic which was considered to require far more effort than it was worth, and occasionally Elves who used dark magic too often could rupture their brain chemistry leaving them unable to properly trance. When an Elf was nearing death black stripes which crept down from the head would appear on their skin and in their final trances during that time they saw the lives of Elves around them during their trances.

Elves were said to be born from the blood of Corellon during his battle with Grumsh. These first Elves were the Celadrin and Seldarine, Celestials and gods of Elves respectively and could shapeshift like Corellon. They lived in Evermeet later also the home of Elven souls waiting to be reincarnated. The first mortal elves were the Eladrin living in in the Feywild, ancestors to the Fey Eladrin who retained only a little shapeshifting, they migrated to the Prime Material Plane three seperate times splitting into different groups but all three times losing their shapeshifting entirely, first as the Aviel, granted wings by their goddess Faeina, secondly as the Telquessil, ancestors to Wood, Sea, and Dark Elves, and finally and most recently as High Elves. Dark Elves were created when Lolth divorced her husband Corellon and sought to create a group of matriarchal Elves in her image who would rebel against Corellon, these were driven to the Underdark. In addition Half-Elves were created from Elf and Human parents, Dwelves from Elf and Dwarf parents, Faux-Gnomes from Elves and Halflings, and Tallfellow Halflings, like all Halflings had unknown origins but had Elfish appearances and traits and so were said to either be descended from Elves and Halflings, Elves transformed into Halflings by Yondalla, or Halflings created or modified by Yondalla inspired by Elves.