Valley elves are thought to be an offshoot of the gray elves, and have
all powers and abilities of that sub-race, plus the ability to speak the
gnomish language.

Valley elves are unusually tall, some of them growing to the height of humans. <use human height, of course>
They are shunned by other elven sub-races, who do not consider them “true elves.” The name of valley
elves is derived from the Valley of the Mage, where the sub-race is
headquartered in the WORLD OF GREYHAWK Fantasy Game Setting,
but valley elves are equally at home in any similarly far-removed
section of the world free of other elvish influences.

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Originally Posted by Gray Mouser
And kudos to you! I love Valley Elves, myself.
They're rather limited in my own campaign world and I preserve the outsider aspect of them.
In the lone Elvish kingdom there's perhaps 500 such chaps in their own communities.

Thanks.
It gets pretty demanding to add really interesting new races/sub-races to a well-developed game.
 

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Originally Posted by Gray Mouser
Not to beat a dead horse or anything, but where did you get the idea for Valley Elves?
Were they also based in mythology?
I rather like them and have a small community of them in my campaign.

Gray Mouser
 

Neigh! don;t thwack me further 

Actually, I made them up out of the elvish template and my vision of the Valley of the Mage.
It seemed a good idea to have the elvesthere a good deal different from the rest...as were the Drow 

Cheers,
Gary