Elves

The Elves were an ancient race of adept magic users. they were known for being incredibly small in numbers despite their extremely long lifespan.   The elves were a primarily solitary race, taking little interest in co-mingling outside of their communities, due to their insular nature few references of them exist in moderns texts. But the accounts that have survived describe have other races (namely the Orc and the Kith) describe them as being flighty and somewhat standoffish.   Elves are said to have possessed far keener hearing ad smell than any other race and lived on a nocturnal cycle, only awaking during the day to trade what was neccesary to the Kith. Their relationship with the Kith was somewhat strained in the aftermath of the The Kitham-Elven Conflict where disputes broke out over territory until a peace treaty was brokered. In the treaty elves were given above ground territory mostly within the mountain and the ability to build underground freely provided they were away from human structures.   The elves built massive underground settlements and compounds all across Gand whih all connected with a series of tunnels. By using the magic they developed they were able to rapidly build structures, developing rudimentary machines and locomatives powered by complex magic insignias. In doing so they created a sustainable underground world the heart of which was The Elven Undercity .   Although the origin is unclear it is said that their advanced magic was underdeveloped and opened them up to a magical corruption which manifested as a tramsmittable and deadly Elven Plague  that ravaged the population of Elves. The elves wishing to save the races above from this sickness chose to collapse the entrances to their tunnels and citys seperating them from the outside and leaving them to die. Decades later the kith would begin the process of re-opening the tunnels and moving into the abandoned structures the Elves left, gutting the structures to make them suitable for humans this would form the basis of many towns including Zentawen the capital city.