List of All the Different Types of Elves

[Phaoz]

Elfling (half-elf/half-halfling? no idea where they appeared or if they're even from a TSR/WotC product. Can anyone help me?)

the elfling is the main char in the Tribe of One trilogy from Darksun.

 

[Echohawk]

There's also a unique race of drow from that system as well that's still evil but less aggressive, since Lolth isn't part of the equation. I'll add them later, when I can look up the name.

Mratzal Drow (p21 of Crystal Spheres).

 

[Big Mac]

Necromantic Bump!

Mratzal Drow (p21 of Crystal Spheres).

Hmm. Well, if you are going to list something from Spelljammer for having a difference like that, you could potentially end up mentioning every SJ community of elves.

For example:

• Clusterspace has short, mostly hairless Astromundi Elves with gold skin (The Astromundi Cluster - The Astrogator's Guide page 23).
• Urrq'aazzt, on Kule, is a Drow space-city inhabited by xenophobic, but non-violent drow (SJR6 Greyspace pages 12-16)*.
• Chislev has unnamed elves that are "loosly-knit", "disorganised", "primative" and "barbaric" (SJR7 Krynnspace pages 45-46)*. (They seem like Wild Elves, but I'd expect them to have DL's Elvensight instead of the normal Low-light Vision that non-DL elves have.)

* = There are no game stats for these subraces.

Obviously, it is hard to know exactly where to draw the line with these things. Personally, I'd be treating each SJ planet as if it was a different campaign setting, but I realise that isn't realistic for this sort of list.

However, I do think that the Variant Elf Races should be in this list (i.e. Arctic Elves, Desert Elves, Jungle Elves and Fire Elves).

Also, the Aquatic Elf is in the SRD (and therefore the core rules), so by the GH=core and core=GH logic that WotC use, shouldn't it be down as a Greyhawk elven race?

 

[drow9991]

where is the sand elf?

 

[Shade]

Sand elf?

 

[HateMe]

Better Late Than Never

I've got a few notes to add for the Forgotten Realms elves:

1) Grey elf is a derogatory name for the moon/silver elf according to the novel "Evermeet - Island of the Elves." The phrase is altered slightly by gold elf supremacists to mean, "dross."

2) Drow were originally brown skinned but cursed with black skin when the Elven Goddess of Fate Araushnee betrayed the Elven gods and was transformed into a demon and banished.

3) Near the end of 3.5e, a Chosen (empowered champion) of Mystra (Goddess of Magic) by the name of Khelben "Blackstaff" Arunsun got a bunch of elves together to use high magic to raise an ancient elf city by the name of Rhymanthiin. Right about this time, good and neutral drow everywhere were reverted to the brown elf. Rhymanthiin was raised in the 3.5e novel "Blackstaff Tower." Not sure when the brown Drow came around but if I recall correctly it involved Drizzt Do'Urden.

Basically, we have another race now though I think it's not a prominent one (seeing as I good, let alone brown, Drow are rather unpopular with a lot of players).

 

[Fruitlúpz]

Hey, guys. I'm running a campaign and I want to decide what elves I wish to use. If you would, please tell me what I'm missing.

High Elf
Grey Elf
Snow Elf
Sun Elf
Moon Elf
Wood Elf
Wild Elf
Drow
Avariel
Aquatic Elf & Malenti

Dark Elf
Blood Elf

 

[Ell-Egypto]

Qiblonesti Elves: shorter, have a tendency to baking and kitchen crafts

 

[tayj21721]

Hey, guys. I'm running a campaign and I want to decide what elves I wish to use. If you would, please tell me what I'm missing.

High Elf
Grey Elf
Snow Elf
Sun Elf
Moon Elf
Wood Elf
Wild Elf
Drow
Avariel
Aquatic Elf & Malenti

you are very much missing the animal tamer elves the dragon scale elves and the musical elves and i hope to be in you campaign

 

[tayj21721]

dragon elves
animal tamer elves
musical elves