Grey elves

One of the two progenitor races. Every humanoid being descends from them.

Unlike the gnomes, they had a high elemental affinity, were driven by emotion and mainly produced art and beauty.

They all disappeared long ago, mostly through their lineage being diluted into that of regular elves. The original pureblooded ones, who were immortal, were transformed into trees due to their sadness at the ugliness mortality had brought to the world. Individual pureblood greys could temporarily stave off the transformation if they were unusually adept at suppressing their emotions, but there was no permanent solution.