Speleor Elves (SPEH-lee-or)
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Banished to the Underdark
Interplanar travelers are a rarity, but those few intrepid souls who have travelled to realms and universes other than Thera have reported of a strange corellation between a race of dark elves known as drow and Thera's cave elves. Like the drow, Speleor Elves were once a sub-race of the previously-widespread elves. Millenia of brutal imperialistic expansion and cruelty had been wrought upon Thera by the powerful High Elven kingdom and empire of Lothfaeralin. As a final measure after endless failed revolts and lost wars against the High Elves, the Ladies inflicted a terrible and climactic punishment upon the entire race in order to permanently eradicate their ever-expanding evil empire. At the insistence of Lady Libra and the Lady of the Lance, Lady Lux together with Lord Fate bestowed a powerful curse upon the High Elves. Their natural affinity to magic was sapped, their physical forms were withered, and their intelligence was dampened. They were banished to the Underdark, and as a means to keep them there, Lady Lux instilled in them an innate revulsion to light.Symbiosis with Megapedes
Over endless centuries spent first stumbling through the unforgiving, wild, and barren Underdark, then settling and beginning to build squalid and rudimentary settlements, the Speleor Elves gradually formed symbiotic relationships with one of the most useful and plentiful inhabitants of the shallower levels of the Underdark: the Megapede.
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