List of All the Different Types of Elves

[Alzrius]

Re: Re: Alrighty...

Although not a whole world, just a city and its surrounding, Green Ronin Publishing's Freeport setting is popular.

Green Ronin has struck a deal with Paradigm Concepts to set Freeport on their world, Arcanis. I'm not sure if this is only for their RPGA campaign Living Arcanis or not though.

 

[Alzrius]

Elven crossbreeds:
Draegloth half-fiends
Fey'ri tieflings
Fainil (another kind of demonic elven planetouched, appears as bat-winged drow; from Dragon 244)
Half-elf/half-dwarves (mentioned in 'The Complete Book of Elves' or 'Complete Book of Dwarves', I'm not sure which, plus 'Dwarves Deep')
Half-elf/half-kender (mentioned in some Dragonlance book, I don't know which)

Hopefully I didn't leave anything out.

IIRC (which I might not), there are also daemonfey in the Forgotten Realms that are different, I think, from the Fey'ri.

As long as we're going with obscure descriptions, Sorak is an elfling, an elf/halfling. Note that these are both the Athasian versions of the creature, from Simon Hawke's Tribe of One trilogy, and it's sequel, The Broken Blade. No stats are given, and as far as we know he is unique (not to mention that series is full of canonity errors).

Likewise, Dead Gods mentions in one chapter (the one where you go to the buried tower in Pelion) describes an ancient, planar race of elves called Alabaster Elves, with pure white skin and who are deaf. They are apparently long since gone (extinct?9 now.

 

[Gez]

On the Heroic Domains of Ysgard (one of the planes of the Greet Wheel, Ysgard is the chaotic-neutral-with-good-tendancies plane), there is an offshoot of dark elves untainted by Lolth. They war with dwarves and gnomes there, but this warfare is more like vigorous pranks than violence (by Ysgardian standards, where, after all, someone killed in combat is resurrected on the following day). They fight to steal gems (that they may as well go hide in the mine thereafter), or to perform various strategic tasks like cutting the beard of a dwarf king... They live in caves lit by giant mushrooms, which they also eat.

 

[X-Calator]

Alright, where would the following fit on Filby's list:

Daemonfey
Alabaster Elf

I'm trying to make the list as complete as possible, so even though KoK and SL are different from the others, are there any elven races that I should include from them? I've got the Forsaken elves already.

 

[Alzrius]

Daemonfey should go under the Forgotten Realms heading. Alabaster Elf should go under the Planescape heading.

I'm thinking that this list should be annotated (at least a lot more than it is) for clarity.

Likewise, I'm still somewhat dubious about including elves with no stat adjustments (that is, that aren't different as a subrace), such as the elves of Ravenloft.

Gez...aren't those uncorrupted drow you mention just there as part of Eilistraee's domain?

 

[Gez]

Gez...aren't those uncorrupted drow you mention just there as part of Eilistraee's domain?

Yes. They're the svartalfar from svartalfeim. There was some notes about them in Planescape (I think the Planes of Chaos boxed set). The 3e Manual of the Planes just mention there is drow in Svartalfeim that aren't as evil as one may think.

Culturally, they're distinct from normal dark elves.

 

[X-Calator]

Hey, Alzrius, I don't see any reason for the annotations. I'm just collecting information. I can sort it out later if I need to.

Yes. They're the svartalfar from svartalfeim. There was some notes about them in Planescape (I think the Planes of Chaos boxed set). The 3e Manual of the Planes just mention there is drow in Svartalfeim that aren't as evil as one may think.

Culturally, they're distinct from normal dark elves.

The svartalfar are a real mythological race of dark elves in Norse folklore. In real-world lore, it's another name for the dopkalfar, the dark elves, being the literal translation. I am very interested in creatures taken from real mythology and shaped up for the D&D universe, so I'd like to know as much about them as I can. Do they look like regular drow with the inverted-esque black skin and stark white hair? I'd expect something different about them appearance-wise as well as culture-wise, but we'll see.

 

[Alzrius]

Hey, Alzrius, I don't see any reason for the annotations. I'm just collecting information. I can sort it out later if I need to.

Annotations would be helpful for other people though. Besides, later on you may want to get more information on those subtypes, and annotations would tell you where.

The svartalfar are a real mythological race of dark elves in Norse folklore. In real-world lore, it's another name for the dopkalfar, the dark elves, being the literal translation. I am very interested in creatures taken from real mythology and shaped up for the D&D universe, so I'd like to know as much about them as I can. Do they look like regular drow with the inverted-esque black skin and stark white hair? I'd expect something different about them appearance-wise as well as culture-wise, but we'll see.

The drow of Svartalheim are, IIRC, physically and statistically the same as other drow, save for the different alignment.

 

[Filby]

Thanks for the positive feedback. To answer a few questions and comments...

I didn't list the elves of 'Kingdoms of Kalamar' and 'Scarred Lands' because they're non-WotC products and I have no knowledge of them whatsoever.

Thanks for catching the alabaster elves (I'd never heard of them!) and the svartalfar.

As for the hulderfolk: not quite correct, but a forgivable mistake. There were actually two different creatures from 'Dragonlance' with similar names. The 'hulders' were small, gray-skinned, child-sized fey (I'm not sure where they were described, probably the DL Monstrous Compendium). The 'hulderfolk' were a very reclusive subrace from the northern continent, Taladas, who lived in isolated forests in the outskirts of the minotaurs' empire. I believe they were described in 'Time of the Dragon'.

 

[X-Calator]

The list thing divided by campaign setting is really helpful and a great idea.

Anybody else have anything to add before I move on to dwarves?