The elves left Golarion to escape a great calamity, but then returned some time later (Pathfinder 2 Core Rulebook, page 39).
1) What was the calamity?
2) To where did the elves escape?
3) Why did they return?
1. Earthfall. When the Starstone hot Golarian.
2. They went to Castrovel, the 2nd planet in Golarian's solar system. To a place called Sovyrian. Except for the ones who went to th Darklands and became drow, instead.
3. To stop the demon lord Treerazer from turning the artifact they used to control the portals that the fled through into a permabent gate to the Abyss.
Fascinating! Is there a source I can go to for more details?
The Calmity was Earthfall.
They went back to their home planet, Castroval. Though they didn't know it was another planet.
They returned because they had considered Golarion home.
Edit: Beat me to it.
You could find some summary of the's thing from Pathfinder Wiki.
For more detail, if I recall correctly, some of this is covered in Elves of Golarian, one of the entries in the 1st edition Companion line.
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While the 3 points summarized above are spot on... there's a fair amount of lore in that very early book that's no longer accurate—we hadn't quite sorted out elves yet for the setting, and did a not-great job working with our authors to keep them from falling back on D&D or Tolkien elf lore.
Best place to go now for elf lore is the hardcover Inner Sea Races, or to the first two books in the Lost Omens line.
Some elves in Garund stayed behind as well and have been fighting demons and what not for centuries since.
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Not all the elves that went underground became Drow, either. Some of them returned to the surface in Tian Xia, becoming the nation of Jinin.
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Not all the elves that went underground became Drow, either. Some of them returned to the surface in Tian Xia, becoming the nation of Jinin.
That’s right; samurai elves.
The elves left Golarion to escape a great calamity, but then returned some time later (Pathfinder 2 Core Rulebook, page 39).
1) What was the calamity?
2) To where did the elves escape?
3) Why did they return?
Rolls Elven Lore [1 on d20]... "recall incorrect information or gain an erroneous or misleading clue"
Clearly, they where crab people the whole time and there never where any elves...
Rolls Elven Lore [1 on d20]... "recall incorrect information or gain an erroneous or misleading clue"
Clearly, they where crab people the whole time and there never where any elves...
Elves physically resemble malenti sahuagin, so you're not far off.
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