List of All the Different Types of Elves
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Alzrius
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X-Calator said:
Hmm...well, first some clarifications and corrections.
Malenti, IIRC, are sahaugin that are born looking like sea elves, but are not true elves. They shouldn't be included.
Sun elves and Moon elves are just the FR names for what are other types of elves. Basically Moon elves = High elves, and Sun elves = Grey elves.
That said, there are some other kinds, along with world variations, and half-elves.
Athasian Elf
Athasian Elf, Half-
Cerilian Elf
Cerilian Elf, Half-
Draegloth (from Monsters of Faerun)
Fey'ri (from Monsters of Faerun)
Half-Elf (check things such as Races of Faerun for derivations by specific elf subtype)
Lythari
Star Elf (from Unapproachable East)
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Gez
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Moon elves are the FR equivalent of high elves, but they're taller and thinner (they use human height chart, and elven weight chart). They have pale skin, sometimes a bit blueish.
Sun elves are the equivalent of grey elves, but the difference here is more than in size and outlook. They are clumsier but stronger (GE have -2 Str +2 Dex -2 Con +2 Int, SE just have -2 Con +2 Int). They're blond and suntanned.
Mystara had the shadow elves, elves driven underground because of a disaster (think of a magical tchernobyl). They are neutral in alignment, are prone to mutation (but abandon twisted babies in the underdark, where they are sometimes adopted by humanoids who confuse the monstrous infant for one of their).
The FR also hold the deep elves, or rockseer elves (I think they are the same). I don't know much about them, but they're underground and prefer stones to trees.
In that same vein, you have the dwelf. Yeah, dwarf-elf crossbreed. They are a part of FR 2e history (see Dwarves Deep) but are don't said to be found nowadays.
Malenti aren't elves, but elf-looking sahuagin...
The star elves come from Unapproachable East, not Races of Faerûn.
In Greyhawk, you also have valley elves. They live in the Valley of the Mage, and serve the Mage. (How creative are these names.) Their current leader is a drow.
Kingdom of Kalamar has its own varieties of elves, including IIRC a non-ECLed dark elf (stripped of much of its special capacities).
EverQuest d20 too (high, wood and dark).
Otherwise, you've forgot santa elves, keebler elves, and house elves.
Myself, I decided to limit the elves to three races IMC, grey (as civilized mariners), wood (as primitive wolfriders), and high (as decadent bastards).
Sun elves are the equivalent of grey elves, but the difference here is more than in size and outlook. They are clumsier but stronger (GE have -2 Str +2 Dex -2 Con +2 Int, SE just have -2 Con +2 Int). They're blond and suntanned.
Mystara had the shadow elves, elves driven underground because of a disaster (think of a magical tchernobyl). They are neutral in alignment, are prone to mutation (but abandon twisted babies in the underdark, where they are sometimes adopted by humanoids who confuse the monstrous infant for one of their).
The FR also hold the deep elves, or rockseer elves (I think they are the same). I don't know much about them, but they're underground and prefer stones to trees.
In that same vein, you have the dwelf. Yeah, dwarf-elf crossbreed. They are a part of FR 2e history (see Dwarves Deep) but are don't said to be found nowadays.
Malenti aren't elves, but elf-looking sahuagin...
The star elves come from Unapproachable East, not Races of Faerûn.
In Greyhawk, you also have valley elves. They live in the Valley of the Mage, and serve the Mage. (How creative are these names.) Their current leader is a drow.
Kingdom of Kalamar has its own varieties of elves, including IIRC a non-ECLed dark elf (stripped of much of its special capacities).
EverQuest d20 too (high, wood and dark).
Otherwise, you've forgot santa elves, keebler elves, and house elves.
Myself, I decided to limit the elves to three races IMC, grey (as civilized mariners), wood (as primitive wolfriders), and high (as decadent bastards).
I found an elf site that looks credible enough:
http://myth-drannor.net/DlabraddathNet/z-Cormanthyr/races.htm
You think it's reliable?
So far it's really helped me out. Considering I'm new to the whole D&D scene, anyway, I need to know some things.
First of all, I've got to get my worlds straight. I've got an idea of what most everything is, but I don't know the hierarchy of where it goes.
Could someone organize these things for me:
Toril
Faerun
Forgotten Realms
Ravenloft
Greyhawke
(I know there are more like this)
Unapproachable East
Dragonlance
Mystara
Kingdom of Kalamar
I know there are tons more but I don't know where they fall. They are all linked by being D&D worlds, right? This will greatly help me out in the long run. It's hard to find good places on the net to explain these things to people like me who've just played FR games and nothing else.
http://myth-drannor.net/DlabraddathNet/z-Cormanthyr/races.htm
You think it's reliable?
So far it's really helped me out. Considering I'm new to the whole D&D scene, anyway, I need to know some things.
First of all, I've got to get my worlds straight. I've got an idea of what most everything is, but I don't know the hierarchy of where it goes.
Could someone organize these things for me:
Toril
Faerun
Forgotten Realms
Ravenloft
Greyhawke
(I know there are more like this)
Unapproachable East
Dragonlance
Mystara
Kingdom of Kalamar
I know there are tons more but I don't know where they fall. They are all linked by being D&D worlds, right? This will greatly help me out in the long run. It's hard to find good places on the net to explain these things to people like me who've just played FR games and nothing else.
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Gez
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Popular campaign settings:
Forgotten Realms: this campaign setting consist of the planet Toril (actually, Abeir-Toril), of which Faerûn is a continent. Other continents include Kara-Tur (setting of the first edition Oriental Adventures) and Zakhara (setting of Al-Qadim). Faerûn, Zakhara and Kara-Tur are more cultural continent than something else, they are all the same landmass, like Europe and Asia. The last detailed continent of Toril is Maztica, which has a mayan/aztech look. The "Unapproachable East" is the eastern part of Faerûn.
Other big names associated with the Realms are Cormyr, Silverymoon, Waterdeep, Baldur's Gate, Amn, Menzoberranzan...
Greyhawk: The name comes from the most detailed city. The planet is called Oerth, and its core continent is called Flannaess.
Ravenloft: It is the demiplan of dread, not a world like the Realms or Greyhawk, just a desolated land lost in the Mists. It's not sure whether it's part of a planet like the others. It's a place of horror, and the Mists, who have a dreadful sentience of their own, frequently kidnap villains, heroes, or ordinary people, from other planes to entrap them in Ravenloft. Here, the most cruel persons are emprisonned, unable to leave the demiplane, but they may take control of part of it and remodel their region to fit their personality.
Dragonlance: The world is called Krynn, famous continents are named Taladas or Ansalon. The setting was frequently ravaged by Tiamat's attempt at killing all other deities, slaughtering all good dragons, and otherwise screwing people. The setting is named after an artifact useful for slaying chromatic dragons. Particularities include no orcs, draconians (created first from mutating metallic dragon foetus in their egg, and replacing their soul with those of abishai devils), and the infamous Awful Midgets (gully dwarves, tinker gnomes, and kender halflings).
Mystara: A world of old-timers, Mystara was the setting of the box (basic set, expert set, etc. until immortal set). Most old modules were either for Greyhawk or for Mystara. Particularities include lots of playable races (including "furries" like lupin (dog, wolf, and fox), rakasta (cats of all stripes), hutakaan (jackal), tortle (guess what), and several reptilian creatures. Famous for its Gazeteers, it also includes the subsettings of Known World, Savage Coast, Red Steel, Hollow Earth... (Its moon is inhabited too, and has a hollow moon too.) About any kind of D&D game may be held somewhere in it, it is even more "patchworky" than the Realms.
Kingdoms of Kalamar: Named after a collapsed Roman-like empire, the world itself is named Tellene. Great deal of effort on creating human cultures, with their own language roots (which may sometimes sounds a bit weird), the setting is one of the most worked-on in terms of efforts spend to make it sounds realistic, both physically (the aspect of the world) and sociologically (migration flux are detailed...). It changes several classical races from their D&D standard, like hobgoblins.
Scarred Lands: World is named Scarn, continents include Ghelspad, Termana and Asherak. Ask Nightfall for more, he's our resident Scarred Lands sage.
Birthright: The world is named Cerilia (or is that the continent?). The setting revolved on playing kings, archmages, hierophant and guildmasters, i.e., being the leaders. Originalities also included a story of divine war that had killed the gods and shed their blood on the world. People touched by the blood of good gods considered then they had a birthright (hence the name) to rule, and are the PC and their rivals. People tainted by the blood of evil gods became awful monsters, the "awnshegliens". Contrarily to most D&D worlds, mythological monsters are unique and powerful, rather than being a race. The Gorgon, the Medusa, etc.
Planescape: A multiversal setting, Planescape focuses on Sigil, the City of Doors, and all the planes of existence. It has still a wide following, but some people just can't get it. Planescapers love employing a linguo, like "berk", "sod" and "blood".
SpellJammer: Another multiversal setting, one of the weirdest oddities of the line. It is a mix of science-fantasy (D&D in space!), carribean pirates, and traditional fantasy. You have wooden ships flying in Wildspace, alien beholder ships with laser rays, lots of grells and mindflayers...
There are other settings, but I can't type them all.
Forgotten Realms: this campaign setting consist of the planet Toril (actually, Abeir-Toril), of which Faerûn is a continent. Other continents include Kara-Tur (setting of the first edition Oriental Adventures) and Zakhara (setting of Al-Qadim). Faerûn, Zakhara and Kara-Tur are more cultural continent than something else, they are all the same landmass, like Europe and Asia. The last detailed continent of Toril is Maztica, which has a mayan/aztech look. The "Unapproachable East" is the eastern part of Faerûn.
Other big names associated with the Realms are Cormyr, Silverymoon, Waterdeep, Baldur's Gate, Amn, Menzoberranzan...
Greyhawk: The name comes from the most detailed city. The planet is called Oerth, and its core continent is called Flannaess.
Ravenloft: It is the demiplan of dread, not a world like the Realms or Greyhawk, just a desolated land lost in the Mists. It's not sure whether it's part of a planet like the others. It's a place of horror, and the Mists, who have a dreadful sentience of their own, frequently kidnap villains, heroes, or ordinary people, from other planes to entrap them in Ravenloft. Here, the most cruel persons are emprisonned, unable to leave the demiplane, but they may take control of part of it and remodel their region to fit their personality.
Dragonlance: The world is called Krynn, famous continents are named Taladas or Ansalon. The setting was frequently ravaged by Tiamat's attempt at killing all other deities, slaughtering all good dragons, and otherwise screwing people. The setting is named after an artifact useful for slaying chromatic dragons. Particularities include no orcs, draconians (created first from mutating metallic dragon foetus in their egg, and replacing their soul with those of abishai devils), and the infamous Awful Midgets (gully dwarves, tinker gnomes, and kender halflings).
Mystara: A world of old-timers, Mystara was the setting of the box (basic set, expert set, etc. until immortal set). Most old modules were either for Greyhawk or for Mystara. Particularities include lots of playable races (including "furries" like lupin (dog, wolf, and fox), rakasta (cats of all stripes), hutakaan (jackal), tortle (guess what), and several reptilian creatures. Famous for its Gazeteers, it also includes the subsettings of Known World, Savage Coast, Red Steel, Hollow Earth... (Its moon is inhabited too, and has a hollow moon too.) About any kind of D&D game may be held somewhere in it, it is even more "patchworky" than the Realms.
Kingdoms of Kalamar: Named after a collapsed Roman-like empire, the world itself is named Tellene. Great deal of effort on creating human cultures, with their own language roots (which may sometimes sounds a bit weird), the setting is one of the most worked-on in terms of efforts spend to make it sounds realistic, both physically (the aspect of the world) and sociologically (migration flux are detailed...). It changes several classical races from their D&D standard, like hobgoblins.
Scarred Lands: World is named Scarn, continents include Ghelspad, Termana and Asherak. Ask Nightfall for more, he's our resident Scarred Lands sage.
Birthright: The world is named Cerilia (or is that the continent?). The setting revolved on playing kings, archmages, hierophant and guildmasters, i.e., being the leaders. Originalities also included a story of divine war that had killed the gods and shed their blood on the world. People touched by the blood of good gods considered then they had a birthright (hence the name) to rule, and are the PC and their rivals. People tainted by the blood of evil gods became awful monsters, the "awnshegliens". Contrarily to most D&D worlds, mythological monsters are unique and powerful, rather than being a race. The Gorgon, the Medusa, etc.
Planescape: A multiversal setting, Planescape focuses on Sigil, the City of Doors, and all the planes of existence. It has still a wide following, but some people just can't get it. Planescapers love employing a linguo, like "berk", "sod" and "blood".
SpellJammer: Another multiversal setting, one of the weirdest oddities of the line. It is a mix of science-fantasy (D&D in space!), carribean pirates, and traditional fantasy. You have wooden ships flying in Wildspace, alien beholder ships with laser rays, lots of grells and mindflayers...
There are other settings, but I can't type them all.
Andrew D. Gable
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I always thought sun=high and moon=grey. But otherwise, ditto on what everyone else said. 
Alzrius
The EN World kitten
Gez said:
That's the continent. The planet is Aebrynis.
One that you didn't mention is
Dark Sun: On the world of Athas, magic draws life from plants, and psionic powers are common place. Ancient magical wars have left the planet a barren wasteland, and many familiar races from other game worlds were all slain long ago. Civilization centers around a group of city-states rules by despotic sorcerer-kings, being of incredible magic and psionic might.
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Alright, tell me how this looks and feel free to correct me or make suggestions:
<==Elves==>
~Toril~
-Sun Elf (Ar'Tel'Quessir, Sunrise Elf, Gold Elf)
-Moon Elf (Teu'Tel'Quessir, Silver Elf)
-Aquatic Elf (Sea Elf)
-Wood Elf (Sy'Tel'Quessir, Copper Elf)
-Wild Elf (Green Elf)
-Snow Elf (Arctic Elf, White Elf)
-Drow (Dark Elf)
-Avariel (Winged Elf)
-Fey'ri
~Non-Toril~
-High Elf
-Grey Elf
-Aquatic Elf (Sea Elf)
-Sylvan Elf (Wood Elf)
-Wilf Elf (Grugach)
-Valley Elf
-Low Elf
-Star Elf
-Shadow Elf
-Athasian Elf
-Cerilian Elf
<==Elves==>
~Toril~
-Sun Elf (Ar'Tel'Quessir, Sunrise Elf, Gold Elf)
-Moon Elf (Teu'Tel'Quessir, Silver Elf)
-Aquatic Elf (Sea Elf)
-Wood Elf (Sy'Tel'Quessir, Copper Elf)
-Wild Elf (Green Elf)
-Snow Elf (Arctic Elf, White Elf)
-Drow (Dark Elf)
-Avariel (Winged Elf)
-Fey'ri
~Non-Toril~
-High Elf
-Grey Elf
-Aquatic Elf (Sea Elf)
-Sylvan Elf (Wood Elf)
-Wilf Elf (Grugach)
-Valley Elf
-Low Elf
-Star Elf
-Shadow Elf
-Athasian Elf
-Cerilian Elf
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