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Drow as in Cow or Drow as in Snow: Where did the Dark Elves Come From?
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<blockquote data-quote="Hriston" data-source="post: 9587330" data-attributes="member: 6787503"><p>The Dark Elves came from the common home shared by all Elves, a bay on the eastern coast of the Levantine Sea, possibly the Bay of Acre/Haifa Bay, where they first "awoke" roughly 80,000 years ago. After about 5,000 years, they were "discovered" by the huntsman of the Archfey who invited the Elves, about 2,000 years later, to come live in the Feywild where they would remain youthful and untired of life, and their bodies wouldn't fade. After another almost 600 years of deliberations, some of the Elves accepted the invitation and began the long journey into the Feywild, the first ones eventually reaching their destination about 4,000 years later (around 68,000 years ago) and becoming the first "Light" Elves because they witnessed the light of the Feywild when the rest of the world was in the grip of the Last Glacial Period.</p><p></p><p>Others among the Elves didn't heed the summons of the Archfey or went astray along their journey, never reaching the Feywild or seeing its light, so they became known as Dark Elves. From the Levant, they eventually expanded throughout Eurasia by about 45,000 years ago. Because they didn't go to the Feywild, they were subject to the "fading", destined to roam unhoused into the Ethereal, and some wandered even as far as the Shadowfell, becoming dark not in name alone...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hriston, post: 9587330, member: 6787503"] The Dark Elves came from the common home shared by all Elves, a bay on the eastern coast of the Levantine Sea, possibly the Bay of Acre/Haifa Bay, where they first "awoke" roughly 80,000 years ago. After about 5,000 years, they were "discovered" by the huntsman of the Archfey who invited the Elves, about 2,000 years later, to come live in the Feywild where they would remain youthful and untired of life, and their bodies wouldn't fade. After another almost 600 years of deliberations, some of the Elves accepted the invitation and began the long journey into the Feywild, the first ones eventually reaching their destination about 4,000 years later (around 68,000 years ago) and becoming the first "Light" Elves because they witnessed the light of the Feywild when the rest of the world was in the grip of the Last Glacial Period. Others among the Elves didn't heed the summons of the Archfey or went astray along their journey, never reaching the Feywild or seeing its light, so they became known as Dark Elves. From the Levant, they eventually expanded throughout Eurasia by about 45,000 years ago. Because they didn't go to the Feywild, they were subject to the "fading", destined to roam unhoused into the Ethereal, and some wandered even as far as the Shadowfell, becoming dark not in name alone... [/QUOTE]
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