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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chimera" data-source="post: 2174477" data-attributes="member: 2002">My world depends on the time frame used.  My earlier games were set 4000-5000 years ahead of the last campaign I ran.The Elves were initially the Kings of the Great Forest, which covered roughly half of the continent.  They were numerically superior to the other forest creatures and saw themselves as rulers of the Great Forest.High Elves.  Most numerous.  The Common folk of the Elven people.Grey Elves.  Had set themselves apart early on and evolved a more intellectual approach.  They inhabited more fey areas of the Great Forest.Sylvan(Wild) Elves.  These folks had adopted a more nomadic existence within the Great Forest.Valley Elves (fer sure!).  Lived on the northern fringes of the forest, in the glades and dales.Aquatic Elves.  Had moved and adapted to a long freshwater sea to the east of the Great Forest and from there, into the ocean to the south.Dark Elves (Drow).  Had long ago moved into the Underdark and been "lost" to the rest of the Elven people.Then the Calaseans, powerful natural magic users, invaded this continent, intent on using the fertile Great River basin as (yet another) Plantation area for their slaves, which were primarily Humans and Orcs but encompassed every other race they could get their hands on.At the time of my last campaign, the Elves had been on the losing end of 1200 years of warfare against the Calaseans.  The Great Forest had been reduced to approximately 1/3 of it's former area and the Elves to approximately 20% of their former numbers.The Elves of this time frame view Humans as tainted and dangerous tools of the Calaseans and will most often kill Humans on sight.  They aren't nice to outsiders and there are NO half-elves.At the time of my previous campaigns, 4000-5000 years in the future, the Calaseans had been defeated and destroyed (about 1200 years after my last campaign time frame).  For approximately 2000 years after that, the Elves, realizing just how close they had come to extinction (being reduced to about 8% of their former numbers toward the end of the war) set about finding other places in the world in which to found colonies.This is why, in the later days, you find Elves scattered over much of the world.  Some of these colonies are xenophobic and isolationist, some are more open (and hence, you will find more half-elves in the vicinity).</blockquote>

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