Grey Elves

The grey elves, mysterious and fey, are the legendary monarchs of the elven race, sequestered in the Emerald Mountains deep in the Green Realm. It is to these kings and queens that the wild elven high lords swear fealty. They are an inherently magical race and are renowned for the depths of their knowledge and wisdom. To their other elven kin, they are known as the Hidden Ones or the Shining Ones.
Grey elves tend to a much paler cast than other elves, with hair ranging in color from white to silver, sometimes with a tint of bluish-gray. Their eyes are bright blue, silver, completely colorless, or amber. They stand taller than all other elves and are as at home upon the waves as on land.
Grey elves are friendly though aloof with wild elves, whom they see as their rightful subjects. High elves and wood elves are likewise seen as subjects, though gone astray and without proper guidance. They think little of half-elves as a debased offshoot and consider them more akin to humans than elves. They tolerate humans, gnomes, and halflings and are generally unfriendly with dwarves, though they reserve a special respect for those dwarves directly related to the dwarven high kings of old, for theirs is a shared history. Grey elves find drow to be fascinating and seek to learn all they can of their subterranean kin. A grey elf is extraordinarily unlikely to be encountered anywhere outside the Emerald Mountains.