So I'm pretty sure that the 3rd edition Epic Level Handbook is where we first encountered the LeShay. They were a race of extremely powerful immortal albino elves, aloof and mysterious and possibly the surviving original elves from back when elves were a new thing. I don't recall that the concept got any traction.
Now in the new Forgotten Realms books, the shay are a group of eladrin living in what's left of the forest kingdom of Sarifal. Unlike everyone else in the area, they are poor sailors but get around by using the fairy trods (leyline teleportation routes). They are said to specialize in circle magic and high magic. Sounds like they may constitute a class of nobles within the kingdom, which is threatened by the inclusion of evil fey and by Shadowfell corruption spreading across the forest.
Anyway, the whole thing screams "fey pact warlock" to me, and I've been looking for a good setup for an "Age of X" type kingdom where the good guys and the bad guys end up working together.
Now in the new Forgotten Realms books, the shay are a group of eladrin living in what's left of the forest kingdom of Sarifal. Unlike everyone else in the area, they are poor sailors but get around by using the fairy trods (leyline teleportation routes). They are said to specialize in circle magic and high magic. Sounds like they may constitute a class of nobles within the kingdom, which is threatened by the inclusion of evil fey and by Shadowfell corruption spreading across the forest.
Anyway, the whole thing screams "fey pact warlock" to me, and I've been looking for a good setup for an "Age of X" type kingdom where the good guys and the bad guys end up working together.