Grey Empire

The last incarnation of grey elven civilization. An oppressive hierarchical society that treated non-grey elves as secondhand citizens, humans as slaves, and dwarves as no better than beasts. This was ironic, since even the grey elves mostly (and in later years fully) consisted of individuals corrupted by mortal blood (though most were not aware of these things, such as the fact that pureblooded greys were exclusively of the female gender).

The Grey Empire's attitude towards non-elven races is the main reason for other races' distrust of elves throughout the following centuries.

The amount of time between the fall of the last Grey Emperor, Arumil and his return thousands of years later was claimed by him to have been infinitesimal when compared to how long the Grey Empire had existed, like a breath compared to a lifetime.