The time when the elves first settled Shallomar is shrouded in myth and legend
as many millennia have passed since the original events. Studious histories
conflict
with each other as do the legends. The different subraces have their own "agendas" for
believing different versions and the accumulated changes to the histories over
the eons mean we are probably never going to establish the "truth".
What ever the truth the original populating elves intermingled their blood
lines and slowly over many centuries two new distinctive clans evolved. Even
in the
many cross clan marriages the children had the features of either sliver
or gold elves, not a mixture of both. Some few centuries after the founding
of
Shallomar interbreeding between these two clans became rare, and they gradually
shifted from being clans to true subraces; each with its own characteristic
physical appearance and its own society and culture.