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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 9303039" data-attributes="member: 58172">The Elves cannot shapechange "at will" the way Corellon does. But Elves do continue to shapechange. They exhibit unstable forms, can alter themselves to adapt to a new environment, and inexorably evolve new forms across time.Here is a running commentary on the textbox in Mordenkainen Presents Monsters of the Multiverse, page 30.The Celestial Elves are Astral beings, who are citizens of Avandor, a dominion of the CG plane of Arborea. Corellon themself is a shapechanger. The Elf species budded, parthenogenically shifting into shapes from the blood of Corellon. These Elves shapechange at will, are at home in Avandor, and explore and play across all planes of the Multiverse.The Celestial Elves are Fey. Perhaps the blood of Corellon was spilled at the location that would become the Feywild. In any case, the Fey plane is a physicalization of these Astral elven beings.The Fey Elves love the intensity of the Feywild. There is a multiversal affinity between the Celestial and the Feywild. The Positive Energy energizes and vitalizes both. Oppositely, the Negative Void entropies and unravels both the Fiend and the Shadowfell. These affinities are about energy, not alignment.In the textbox, the mention of the Exile is ambiguous, but can read as follows. At the Exile, the Elves who plotted against Corellon cease to be Celestials. But they are still Fey and regroup in the Feywild. Some Fey Elves shapechanged into Humanoid. (The definition of Humanoid remains undefined.) Then, all Elves in the Feywild, both Fey and Humanoid, "lost their ability shapechange at will". Elves still continue to shapechange by other means and over time, even if not at will.The parent of the Elves is Chaotic Good, altruistic while respecting individual choices. Apparently, the Exile serves some Good purpose. Perhaps Corellon wants their descendants to increase in power in order to eventually transform the multiverse, to make it a better place. The exilees cannot return to the Avandor, but they can make the universe a more ideal place like Avandor. They will achieve this by personal effort. Maybe this is the purpose of the Exile.Taking on a "fixed form" − namely of a Human − gives Elves hope. Something about Humanity, is going to make things ok.From the Feywild, the Elves continue to explore the multiverse like the Celestial Elves do.However, unlike the Celestial Elves who simply shapechange into anything at any moment, the Fey Elves and the Humanoid Elves must readapt their humanlike bodies for each new environment. Despite losing the at-will shapechange, these exiled Elves still possess the ability to become new "physical forms".Some official settings that are part of the multiverse, lack Corellon. Mordenkainen Presents insists they nevertheless descend from Corellon.The Celestial blood of Corellon the shapechanger, causes Elves to continue evolving new forms, even after they have adapted to the environment they are in. They still keep on changing, no matter what.Even the "fixed forms" of Elves remain unstable. The mutability of Eladrin bodies shapeshifts with the moods of the seasons. All Elven bodies subtly shift. Elves have magical ability to intentionally adapt to a new environment.</blockquote>

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