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List of All the Different Types of Elves
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Big Mac
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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:
* = 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?
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?
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).
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).
Dark Elf
Blood Elf
Ell-Egypto
Explorer
Qiblonesti Elves: shorter, have a tendency to baking and kitchen crafts
tayj21721
Villager
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
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