User blog comment:Relite25/What do the people want in a dlc?/@comment-3025184-20120815195125/@comment-3492791-20120816211128

If you want to get nit picky, de-evolution is not the best term. But it was the term used by "a snow elf", so it was the term I choose to use.

To be more specific, the evolved down a path that caused them to become much more animal-like. Being forced to live in a harsh, unforgiving environment, made them adapt and evolove one more of a path to ensure basic survival rather than increased intellegence. Do to that as they evolved better survival traits, they lost intellegence, is likely the cause for the word "de-evolution". Now that it is noted they they are once again getting smarter, they are "re-evolving". Also it's worth mentioning that they probably never re-evolved the ability to see again, because in a pitch black cave it's probably not a huge help.

As mentioned above, The Falmer's blindness and abandonment caused them to evolve to better survive their new situation. The surviving snow elves had nither of these problems, and thus did not evolve down the same path. This fork in devolopmental evolution means that in fact Snow elves and Falmer are not the same race. They both descended from thier ancient Snow elven ancestors, but are not the same any more. Such as Humans and Apes are not the same race, simply because we share an ancestor. Thus the Snow elves do not already exist. There is only one known to remain in existence, and it should stay that way. The cool thing about extinct races is they stay extinct.

Also my mention of the domestication of the Chaurus was a joke. In case that somehow eluded you.