Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-13417807-20130726023954/@comment-14027812-20130815003254

Th3Antioch wrote: Run down on elven races:

Altmer- High elves, alive

Dunmer- Dark Elves, Alive

Orismer- Not sure if they truly are elves, orcs, alive

Bosmer- Wood elves, alive

Ayelids- Wild elves, extinct

Dwermer- Deep elves, disappeared

Maomer- Mist/tropical elves, alive, don't live on tamriel

Left-handed elves- Extinct

Chimer- Changed Elves, transformed and became the Dunmer

Aldmer- Primordial Elf race, elves as we know them today Also,the Snow Elves lived on Skyrim(previously named Mereth) before the Atmorans came.What happens next is still ground for debates.After this gap,the doom-driven Five Hundred Companions,led by none other than Ysgramor, drove the Snow Elves to near extinction for what they've done to the newcomers(the Snow Elves ransacked Saarthal,a major Atmoran settlement in the time;this episode became known as Night of Tears,from which only Ysgramor and his family survived).The Snow Elves came to the Dwemer for salvation from the Atmorans,but the Dwemer tricked them and rendered them blind(how exactly the've done it is also point of debate),after this bloody era,the Atmorans settled in Mereth,renamed it Skyrim,and became the modern-day Nords,and the Snow Elves slowly devolved into the twisted creatures we now call Falmer.