Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-9062114-20140323022721/@comment-9062114-20140329161835

Harold Burned-Mane wrote:

80.216.220.71 wrote: Well, this would have been before there were Mer and the lore clearly states that all Staying Elhnofey were murderous dungholes who tried to kill the Wandering Elhnofey for no reason.

So even if not all Mer are like that(YMMV on that I know it's not all of them but a majority is still a majority) it's a moot point since they didn't exist back then.

Only the Wandering ones should have evolved into the Races of Mundus, the Staying ones were insane. The Staying Ehlnohey evolved into the Aldmer. The Aldmer spit into the Pro-Altmer and the Maormer. The Pro-Altmer then spit into the Dwemer, Bosmer, Chimer, Falmer, Orsimer, Ayleids, Modern Altmer. The Chimer then turned into the Dunmer. This is all that we know of Elven Evolution, we don't know where the Khajiit and the Left-Handed Elves fit. It's safe to assume they just evolved from the Aldmer too, except they went more north and found Yokuda. As with the Khajiit, they were likely Bosmer who might've been transformed for some reason.