Pathfinder Race: Night Elves
Night Elves Night elves (or kaldorei , for “Children of the Stars” in Darnassian ), are a powerful and mystical race whose origins extend back to ancient times. These then-immortal beings were among the first to study magic and let it loose throughout the world nearly ten thousand years before the First War . The founders of a magical and advanced civilization which at its peak spanned the breadth of ancient Kalimdor , the night elves came into a horrific conflict with the Burning Legion but achieved a Pyrrhic victory that ended in the Great Sundering , turning Kalimdor’s landmass into the continents of the present age. The devastation wrought by the chain of events birthed in conceit caused a wholesale shift in direction. The night elves abandoned the use of arcane magic, fearing its use would draw the Burning Legion back to their world. The main survivors of the Sundering crafted a radically different soc...