Elves

Lore
the elven people lived peacefully amongst one another in clans that made up there social structure, they practiced nature based magics and lived with the land instead of off of it. there homes were up in the trees, in caves or really anywhere they could, the elven people developed a strong connection with the land and from that they gained a rich knowledge of medicinal herbs, poisons, how to live with or even tame beasts and of course how to keep there forests and waters clean and sustained. the elven people lived mostly peaceful lives with a majority of there non guerilla combat knowledge being for entertainment or honor so when the humans came to there boarders they were of course a bit unnerved, relief was only found when an agreement was struck over the territory markers that both kingdoms were happy with. the elven people adapted to life with there new neighbors and things started to go back to normal, after a few years the humans lands started to wither away from natural causes and while the elven people did there best to help there was nothing they could do to save the human lands. out of nowhere the humans attacked the elven empire, like a raging hellfire, nothing stood in there wake as they burned down city's, killed men, woman and children while keeping the surrounding areas sustained for later use, the elven empire fought using gorilla tactics, spider holes, traps, terror tactics,, everything they could and this worked for quite some years until the humans gained there foothold and slowly but surely started taking the kingdom one town at a time. in a last ditch effort, those not slaughtered in the final siege would make a pact with an old enemy, the lich king. the elven people gave up there bodys and souls to become the vampires and werewolves we have today.