Celesari

The Celesari (elven, literal meaning: star elf,) are a mythical race of elves described in ancient manuscripts and worshipped as the progenitor species for which all modern elves are descended. The original inhabitants of the Feywild, the Celesari were great scholars of magic whose ability to delve into the depths of the arcane were unparalleled due to their immortality.

The Celesari are credited with the creation of the Sylvan, (dryads, fairies, pixies, etc.) It is said that when their knowledge of magic proved to be constrained by the limitations of their own world, that they travelled to other realms in their quest for understanding. The Celesari allegedly held a cosmos-spanning empire, leading the first elven armies into Orbis. Starmetal is believed to have been forged by the Celesari - there is certainly no one in living memory capable of creating the substance.

Elven mythology states that one day, the Celesari in their entirety disappeared from the cosmos without a trace. It is believed by the elves that they became so powerful that they ascended to godhood. It is common for elves to worship the Celesari as deities, especially the high elves who emulate them the most.

In Drow society, the Celesari are derided as negligent creators. Drows believe that as the Celesari grew more powerful and more ancient, they became so far removed from their elven descendants in power and scope that they no longer saw elves as their own family, conducting vile and far reaching experiments on them. The drow hold to the belief that one such experiment led to the sundering of an entire continent in the Feywild, which led to a great army of elves forming to overthrow their masters. They were unsuccessful and banished to the Underdark, becoming the drow of today.