Twilight elves (AoC Universe)

The twilight elves are a race of elf evolved directly from the night elves.

History
After the War of the Ancients in -5,000, in which Sargamon was narrowly prevented from entering Middle-Earth due to the combined alliance of Wild Gods, dragons, smurfs and night elves, the night elves agreed to completely forsake arcane magic. Their society was already druidic, but a secret sect of arcanists known as the Twilight Order were barely tolerated by the kaldorei for the time being up until the Sundering. Post-Sundering, Archdruid Evenshade issued an edict on the advice of Cremyrus, the Prime Ancient, and outlawed the use of sorcery indefinitely. High Priestess Skyweaver, meanwhile, tasked the night elf Wardens with arresting anyone caught engaging in this illegal activity around the Midnight Glade.

The result was a schism in the Twilight Order. Some followed their leader, Mytnas Dawndancer, and sailed eastwards in search of a new home. Others followed the lead of the zealous mage, Gladis Nightwalker, in protesting the night elves' foolish decisions. To her, their rejection of magic was cowardice; an expression of fear and pessimism that kept their society backwards. To that end, they pooled their power and unleashed a terrible arcane storm through the Glade, horrifying many of their conservative brethren in the process. Outraged, the leaders of the Wardens - Leria Mosswing and Naisha Duskbringer - placed a high bounty on the head of the remaining members of the dreaded Order. One by one they were rounded up and incarcerated below Moonhowl Mount, the wolf-god Fenrir's sacred sanctum, until Gladis herself was tracked down.

They were initially planning to imprison her, like the rest, but during her arrest Nightwalker broke free and started spellcasting, managing to knock Duskbringer off her mount. For this heinous act, the night elf leadership agreed that she be blinded and then exiled, left to survive the harsh outlands on her own - or so they thought.

Some magi, disgusted by the punishment suffered by Nightwalker, joined her cause. Again, they pooled their power, but this time it took them out of the planet and onto the mysterious Alfheim, where they made their new home.