Elves in forgotten realms and 5e - what is the official source?

Demetrios1453 said:

SCAG has a good run-down of the various and sub-races in the setting.

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Ancalagon said:

Hello

Given the sort of re-inventing of some of the elven sub-races lately, which doesn't really fit with the old FR lore, can someone tell me what the deal is with elves in FR these days? MtoF didn't really help (or if it did, I missed the section).

I normally wouldn't care too much but I'm creating a character for a PbP game set in the realm.

I'm only asking about the surface elves - the drow can die in a cave-in for all I care.

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Eltab said:

I haven't heard of any updates to the 'origin story' printed in Grand History of the Realms (3.5e era): the forefathers of the elves came to Faerun via portal from some other world, which was vaguely described and sounds sorta like the Feywild. Over time they branched out into the many varieties we see today.

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Ancalagon said:

Ah, the one book I never bothered getting...

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gyor said:

Its an okay rum down of most Elf subraces, but Eladarin and Shadar Kai are not refered to as the 5e Eladarin and Shadar Kai are very different from the past, Shadar Kai weren't Elves even in the past.

So yeah they should have offered more setting guidance.

Also they basically added new Elven deities to FR, some were from dragon magazine articles which were linked to FR, in 2e but promptly forgotten afterwards, others came from the Setting neutral Races of the Wild in 3e, and were never FR deities until now, and a few immigrated from Greyhawk.

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Laurefindel said:

IIRC, those who will become Sun Elves came through portals, the ancestors of the Moon Elves came via spelljammer ships, and green/wild elves were native to the land. can't recall about the pre-drow dark elves however

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