Editing Corellon Larethian (section)

==History==
When the Gods were born, they set about dividing creation into their kingdoms. Corellon and a bunch of other deities banded together and started calling themselves "the Seldarine". Corellon took the sexiest goddess, [[Lolth|Araushnee]], as his wife and together they started planting forests, introducing animals and generally breathing life into the cosmos.

Unfortunately for Corellon, Araushnee had figured she could do the business of running the cosmos herself and was resolved to push her husband off a cliff as soon as he finished building it. She was sleeping around with the other gods, taking [[Fenmarel Mestarine]] to bed in an attempt build alliances for her big takeover. The plot was discovered by [[Sehanine Moonbow]], though for varying reasons the truth isn't revealed straight away.

When [[Gruumsh]] showed up late to the building of the world he asked where his creations the orcs were meant to live. Corellon then replied that they shouldn't and told Gruumsh to "piss off". So Gruumsh then flew into a rage and started chopping down the forests to build walls and machines in order to make a gigantic fortress for himself. When Corellon told Gruumsh to stop what he was doing, Gruumsh then "kidnapped" Corellon's supermodel wife and held her hostage in his castle, though it was all part of the plot to get rid of her husband.

Corellon did the only reasonable thing you do when you need to storm the battlements: he made a bow. Taking careful aim from a safe distance, he fired over and over, each hit somehow getting past the emplaced defenses and striking Gruumsh in the ass. Eventually Gruumsh's ass had bled so profusely that the fortress was filled with so much blood that the foundations were weakened, causing the fortress to collapse and Araushnee to escape, though she wasn't happy with the result.

From here the story diverges slightly depending on who's telling the story: 
*Gruumsh pulled himself from the wreckage then fought Corellon hand to hand and knocked seven shades of shit out of him, and Corellon only wins due to a lucky strike that puts out Gruumsh's eye and ending the fight. After dealing with the duplicity of Araushnee and exiling her, one of the other Goddesses, [[Sehanine Moonbow]] ''(who may or may not be Corellon's daughter)'', tends Corellon's wounds and creates the Elven race from mixing her tears with his blood.
*Variants to the story have Sehanine interrupting the fight, either because Corellon is too wounded to continue fighting or because his sword ''Sahandrian'' breaks. The power of Sehanine is said to heal Corellon's wounds or reforge the sword, giving him the strength to fight on and put out Gruumsh's eye. Corellon would later marry Sehanine ''(if she isn't his daughter then)'' after exiling his unfaithful wife. In this case the race of Elves already existed, or they would be created some other way. Presumably [[Heterosexual Sex in the Missionary Position|the old fashioned way]].
*In yet a third different version of the story, Corellon managed to win the fight merely by shooting lots of arrows over and over, never getting wounded in the first place. When Orcs tell this version of the story Gruumsh doesn't get his eye plucked out either, and the creation of the Elves goes unmentioned. This is presumably the story told whenever Elves aren't the preeminent species, so other races ''(like Humans or Dwarves)'' can arise before the Elves do, or when the creation mythology requires the races to arise some other way ''(like in the Broken Mold story)''.
*A ''fourth'' telling of the story ''(usually the [[Forgotten Realms]] version)'' has Araushnee's exile as entirely separate from the conflict with Gruumsh and the race of Elves already exists in their infancy. Instead, Corellon is accidentally struck by an arrow fired by his daughter [[Eilistraee]] that had been cursed by his wife to seek out the heart of her husband. While everyone is in despair, Araushnee would invite the gods of evil and their armies into '''Arvandor''' to overthrow it. However, it's somewhat consistent with the other tellings of the story: Sehanine Moonbow had still been aware of the plot and joins with [[Aerdrie Faenya]] and [[Hanali Celanil]] to become [[Angharradh]] so that she can heal Corellon as before, while also revealing the truth of Araushnee's treachery. When the villainous gods are defeated, Araushnee is still exiled, but Eilistraee goes with her due to the guilt she feels from shooting her father while understanding that [[Drow|Araushnee's mortal followers]] will need a "good" deity to give them an example to aspire to.
*In the "Core 5E" version everything is a little more [[grimdark]]. Corellon was actually a formless shapeshifter and a capricious dickhead who pissed off Gruumsh before the Seldarine even existed. During their battles, Corellon's spilled blood would rise up to create new primal entities that nearly matched their power. After coming to appreciate some of them individually they gave them all names and eventually formed the pantheon of gods that would later be named the Seldarine. It was Lolth ''(no Araushnee this time, just Lolth)'' who persuaded the primal spirits to take static forms and actually become ''"Elves"''. Corellon was pissed at the betrayal and lost all trust in their pantheon while also banishing Lolth and her followers to the Abyss. In their disappointment they also cast out the primal spirits who had taken elven form away from Arvandor to become mortal and continually refuses their eternal respite when they die by reincarnating them in new bodies after a period of time.