Elven Origins

Much like the dwarves of Boros, the elves came from another plane of existence, from their homeland known as Alfheim. They arrived in several waves via planar gates created by the god Wayland the Smith beginning some 17,000 years ago. Initially, few were permitted to pass the gates, most of whom were among the most noble of the elves, ancestors of today’s grey elves of the Emerald Mountains. Over the next several millennia, other groups of elves managed to cross in small numbers and largely settled in remote locations. Only in –6484 I.R., at the same time the Three Gods banished Orcus to the far plane of void known as the Ginnungagap, did a large wave of elves come to Boros during what is known as the First Exodus.
The arrivals from the First Exodus settled mainly in the Great Akadonian Forest that then stretched across almost all of southern Akados. These were the ancestors of today’s wild elves (those who refused to follow Valenthlis and withdrew west to the Green Realm) and high elves (who followed Valenthlis, fought aside the Hyperboreans at Hummaemidon, and live today in eastern Akados largely in friendship with the human realms).