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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kae'Yoss" data-source="post: 2288972" data-attributes="member: 4134">The elven race is usually depicted as the oldest humanoid race by far. All the different subraces were created long ago.Take the Forgotten Realms as example (it's practically the standard Vanilla D&D Campaign World, as GreyHawk doesn't see much official support):IIRC, Gold and Silver elves immigrated from the elven homeworld, Faerie, a very long time ago. By that time, they had lived there for quite some time, and had time to form the subraces. They found the wild elves (or was it wood elves) already living in the vast woods of this new world, which they dubbed Faerûn (sounding like their old homeland, but not the same name). They also found the winged elves, the avariel. Whether these two races were native or immigrated earlier I don't recall at the moment, nor do I know how the dark elves and sea elves came to be hereLater, the dark elves were turned into the drow by powerful elven high magic (which did more than it should, as usual for elven high magic), and the wood elves (or was it wild elves - the other race that was not there yet) was created over the milennia by the mingling of wild elves and (IIRC) silver elves.So we have elves here from more than one world, elves that are a mixed race formed from several other subraces, and elves that were created magically.</blockquote>