Are there elves in Tian Xia?

[zabei]

Hello. I'm making a character for a new PFS game & was told to look into Tian Xia as I had questions about character background. I want to play an elf, but curious if elves - having seemingly spread everywhere - are in Tian Xia.
I know there are so far at least mentioned in Paizo's products:

Aquatic Elves
Desert Elves
Dark elves
Gray elves (Mordant Spire)
Snowcaster elves
Wild elves

Now I know a few people who dislike the "every kind of elf" question, so please if that's you, I don't want arguments or anything like that. I'm just curious.

Thanks so much!

[blackbloodtroll]

Should you find it difficult to know the details of the Tian Xia elves, remember there is trade, and your parents may be foreigners.

[Tarren Dei]

In another thread:

James Jacobs wrote:

Tengu already ARE found in the Inner Sea region, in fact. The other four races can certainly be found in the Inner Sea Region, but are pretty rare, just as dwarves and halflings and gnomes and half-orcs are pretty rare in Tian Xia. And just as there are tengu in the Inner Sea region, there are elves in the Dragon Empires.

[zabei]

Thank you both. That helps alot!

[blackbloodtroll]

With proper backstory, a character should be able to be from anywhere. Even in PFS, it is something that should be completely in the player's hands.

[Enevhar Aldarion]

The new Dragon Empires Gazetteer, which should be available to buy this week, will have details on elves in Tian Xia. I think someone has posted that there is even a small elven kingdom, or something like that, in there somewhere.

[bigkilla]

"While elves have lived in the forested realm of Jinin for thousands of years, they have traditionally remained under a self-imposed isolation. Nevertheless, elves are perhaps the most well known of the western races, after humans, in the Dragon Empires."

[Benicio Del Espada]

This article has a picture of a Tien half-elf.

[zabei]

More very cool info!! I can't want to hear all about it from the Gazetteer (& anyone know when the Tian Xia guide is out??)

[William Ronald]

zabei wrote:

More very cool info!! I can't want to hear all about it from the Gazetteer (& anyone know when the Tian Xia guide is out??)

You can order it now. (I think that the physical book is available next week.) There is a lot of information at here.

[Son of the Veterinarian]

I bought the Gazetteer yesterday and just finished it.

Sadly, there isn't a huge amount of information as each country only gets a one-page write-up, and most of the Jinin page is backstory on how the Elves got there in the first place.

(Basically, they're the descendants of a group of Elves that broke off from the bunch that went on to become the Drow, making the long journey underground to finally come up in Tian Xia under the direction of a mad Oracle.)

Beyond that you find out they're isolationist and their main export is Mithral.

[HappyDaze]

Son of the Veterinarian wrote:

I bought the Gazetteer yesterday and just finished it.

Sadly, there isn't a huge amount of information as each country only gets a one-page write-up, and most of the Jinin page is backstory on how the Elves got there in the first place.

(Basically, they're the descendants of a group of Elves that broke off from the bunch that went on to become the Drow, making the long journey underground to finally come up in Tian Xia under the direction of a mad Oracle.)

Beyond that you find out they're isolationist and their main export is Mithral.

They also tend toward LG (as opposed to the typical CG of Avistani elves) and often follow the way of the samurai.