Elf

It's said that the elves are the last of the ancient races of Eberron, a lineage that extends back to the continent of Xen'drik and the Age of Giants. The elves first learned magic from the !irek — the giants — when the giants sought to "uplift" the elves from their hunter-gatherer existence, some sixty-thousand years ago. For twenty-thousand years, the elves of Xen'drik were a conquered people, until the Dreaming Dark invaded. When the !irek turned their attention to the invasion, the elves rebelled. For a thousand years, they fought for their freedom, until the !irek tried to unleash their cataclysmic magics a second time. This time, the dragons intervened and reduced the what remained of the !irek civilization to ruin.   In the wake of this second disaster, the elves would divide into those who followed the prophet Aeran to a new home far across the sea, and those who stayed to scour the !irek ruins and rebuild their home. Those who left became the aerani; those who remained became the drow. The aerani would further split again, into those who stayed in Aeranal and those who left for the continent of Khorvaire, the tairnadal.   Elvish ancestry says only where an elf was born; it indicates nothing of their outlook on life. There are hundreds of competing drow clans, each with their own unique view of the world. The tairnadal are further divided into bands, clans of warriors whose ancestors traveled together and who thus bind their descendants to do the same. As the creators of one of the only "living gods" of Eberron, the Aereni are encouraged to pay respect to the Undying Court, but elves who are called to other paths are given wide latitude to follow them.