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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Loincloth of Armour" data-source="post: 3955839" data-attributes="member: 28201">Actually, I just came up with a way this works, fits in with the racial predispositions of each one, and will annoy everyone who's not elven blooded.The term "elf" is actually the name for the whole group of fey creatures who are now elf/eladrin/drow.  The elven people call themselves 'elf' because that's what they are.  As they are straightforward people, it works fine.  Much like in our world, people call themselves 'human.'The snooty, self-superior group call themselves 'eladrin,' which --in the elven language-- is just another way of saying elf, but pretentiously.  Much like someone on earth referring to themselves as 'homo sapien.'   It means the same thing as human, but someone who calls themselves homo sapien is trying to show off their learning and cultural refinement... or just being a pompous donkey's behind.The group that broke away see themselves as a whole new people, different from the stock they came from.  They're 'superior' and 'better' than those they left, and so they have a new name for themselves, drow.  Drow see 'drow' as being the same as 'homo superior', while the others see it as 'two-timing ba$7ards.'  So they're all 'elves', but there is weight to the meaning behind how they refer to themselves, as it reflects their own cultural biases.</blockquote>