High-Elf

"'Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvelous. They cause marvels. Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies. Elves are glamorous. They project glamour. Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment. Elves are terrific. They beget terror. The thing about words is that the meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning. No one ever said elves are nice. Elves are bad.' --Terry Pratchett "

High Elves
High Elves are the technologically sophisticated cousin of Elves who have, as a species, eschewed magic and harmonious living with nature while augmenting their civilization with technology salvaged from the remnants of a sophisticated precursor civilization beneath the surface of their homeworld, a particular variant of Gade.

High Elves are stereotypically xenophobic, treating most other races-especially Elves- as potentially duplicitous inferiors. Politically, most of their worlds are represented by a confederation of one-world governments known as the Technocratic Imperium.

Low Elves
High Elves who disagree with the political and social institutions of the Technocracy are considered race-traitors. Known as "Low Elves", most have been exiled from their homeworlds and left to found a diaspora within Drifter Hubs.