Primaeval Elves

Following the Caliemhan, the primaeval elves split into three races that divided according to where they went. The first were those that fled to the west, to the continents of Ulera and Nagain, where elves still live today. The second were those that fled to the sky cities like Smaragdina, who evidently remained the most “pure” and unchanged after the Caliemhan. The third were those that fled underground, who were eventually pushed even further underground by the dwarves, and became the pale-skinned, gangly gaunt-men, a group of which eventually made their way back to the surface in Tira Vella, where they dwarves were absent, and became the arps. These three groups are alluded to in the scriptures of Shant Karotu as the “star people” that “glide around the ghost bones”, those “fled into the setting sun”, and those who “fled from the sun entirely”. According to these scriptures, the final end of the “star people” at the hand of the Prince of Rape was supposed to herald a sort of apotheosis for mankind and the Chilovakian species, though the meaning, nature, and morality of this apotheosis has been a point of debate and contention among Saddhakahs for centuries.   The exact form of the primaeval elves is unknown, as all their descendant groups were changed in some way in the aftermath of the Caliemhan, but from records they left behind and attempts at historical reconstruction, it can be assumed they were likely golden skinned and long-lived like the modern elves, pointy-eared like all their descendants, and tall and hairless, a trait likely inherited by the Horils after the Caliemhan.