High Elves (Eladrin) - Elves who originated from the realm of Faerie, also known as the Feywild.
- Sun Elf - Also called gold elves, sun elves were highly civilized elves with a natural gift for wizardry.
- Moon Elf - Also called silver elves, moon elves were one of the most common subraces. They lived a nomadic lifestyle, and often interacted with other races.
- Star Elf - Also called mithral elves, they were an isolated subrace that lived on the demiplane of Sildeyuir.
- Fey Eladrin - While high elves of most planes are "common eladrin", the fey eladrin are high elves that have fully transitioned from mundane humanoids of distant fey ancestry into fully-fledged fey due to centuries of Feywild's exposure.
Sylvan Elf - Also called, sy-tel-quessir, they were either considered as one race, two cultures of one race, or two separate races.
Wood Elf - Also called copper elves and often confused with wild elves, wood elves were a populous subrace that lived simply in the forests.
Wild Elf - Also called green elves; feral, reclusive elves who scorned civilization and its trappings, preferring a wild existence close to nature.
Drow - Also called dark elves. A dark-skinned race of elves.
- Lorendrow (who lived in the surface forests)
- Aevendrow (who lived in the surface frozen north)
- Udadrow, the most infamous and numerous ones who lived in the Underdark.
Aquatic Elf - An aquatic race of water-breathing elves.
Avariel - A mostly extinct race of winged elves.
Shadar-Kai - An offshoot of elves bound to the Shadowfell after the Raven Queen whom they served fell.
Lythari - A rare and reclusive race of forest-dwelling elves who can transform into wolves.
Astral Elf - A race that was native to the Astral Plane, blessed with a divine spark of power from the plane.
Snow Elf - A rare and mostly isolated race of elves of the icy mountaintops.