Editing Elf subraces (section)

==The Elder Scrolls==
* Aldmer: The original elf race. They have evolved into various sub-groups when the series takes place and thus, no longer exist. Not much is explained about them beyond the fact that they lived in Aldmeris and were a mighty set of dicks in their own right. Maybe descendents of the gods, maybe not.
* Deep Elves/Dwemer: Elves who lived underground and built machinery, informally known as "dwarves" after the name the giants gave them (though anybody is a dwarf next to a giant). Their most potent form of dickery was tricking the Snow Elves into eating a fungus that took away their sight so they could use them as slave labor. They tried to do SCIENCE! on the Heart of Lorkhan and discovered that doing SCIENCE! on the heart of a god made their entire race disappear from Tamriel. Whether they were obliterated, ascended to a higher plane of existence, or became the skin of Numidium, consensus is that the world's better off without them. Only one survived the Disappearance, a bloke named Yagrum Bagarn, who appears in ''Morrowind'', and a cancerous disease made him look incredibly obese, so he uses a spider walker to get around.
* Snow Elves/Falmer: Albino elves that fought against the Nords (pretty much vikings) and lost. They sought asylum from the Dwemer, who enslaved them, force-fed them toxic fungi that caused them to go blind, and used SCIENCE! to devolve them into [[Grimlock|barely sentient horrors]]. They currently lurk in the tunnels beneath Skyrim and have developed crude tools and weapons derived from centipede-like beasts called Chaurus. Lately, they've started going out on raids to capture surface dwellers for... [[Dark Eldar|unknown reasons]]. By the time of ''Skyrim'', only two uncorrupted Snow Elves still exist in Skyrim and the Dragonborn kills one of them, though the other claims that pockets of untainted Snow Elves may still exist on Tamriel.
* High Elves/Altmer: Complete arseholes who think they're the purest of all the elven races. Good at magic. As of the Fourth Era, they are part of the Aldmeri Dominion and ruled by a group of even bigger arseholes called the Thalmor, who seek to destroy the world so all elves would ascend to godhood, and all other species would be retconned out of existence (as "never existed"). Their homeland is the Summerset Isles.
* Wood Elves/Bosmer: A stereotypical wood elf: stealthy, good with bows, yadda yadda yadda. The two most original aspects of them are that they all have solid black eyes and horns and that their men are short while their women are among the tallest humanoids in the series. Their religion makes them obligate carnivores, and (in fluff only) [[Chaos Spawn|they can turn into nightmare swarms of constantly-mutating monstrosities that will wreck shit hard before devouring themselves/each other]]. Their homeland is Valenwood.
* Orcs/Orsimer: Your typical orc: big, strong, and tough. They're also very good artisans and smiths. Came into existence when the aedric god Trinimac was devoured by the daedric god Boethiah and then shat out as the daedric god Malacath. Their homeland is the Orsinium.
* Dark Elves/Dunmer: A splinter group that decided to worship the daedra instead of the aedra. They were originally called the Chimer, but after the Battle of Red Mountain and the Disappearance of the Dwemer, their heroic general Indoril Nerevar died in suspicious circumstances and three of his councilors took the Tools of Kagrenac, with which they did SCIENCE! to the Heart of Lorkhan, siphoning some of its power and becoming the Tribunal. Azura, the Chimer patron daedra, cursed the entire race for this blasphemy with ashen skin and red eyes. A bit of a middle ground between stealth, magic, and melee combat. The player character of ''Morrowind'' is supposedly a reincarnation of Nerevar. Their homeland was Morrowind, but after Baar Dau resumed falling, it obliterated a good chunk of Vvardenfell; coupled with the subsequent eruption of Red Mountain burying the rest of the island in ash and lava and the Argonians invading from the south, Morrowind is largely a memory in the Fourth Era. When given the opportunity to grow between xenophobia or being pretty chill, they tend to either be complete jerks or actually pretty cool falks to hang with.
* Wild Elves/Ayleid: An extinct race who used to worship the daedric gods and enslaved humans. Said humans, with the help of good Ayleid and the aedra, rebelled against their masters and wiped them out. Used to live in Cyrodiil.
* Khajiit?: Maybe, maybe not. Some sources in the games say they were once Bosmer who became Khajiit by aligning themselves with the cycles of the moons. Others say that they were originally a completely distinct race. Their homeland is Elsweyr.