The elders of each clan met together and they established what would lead the elves till this day...together they established the senate with each sub race of elf having a seat (grey, wood, high, aquatic) with the most powerful noble house set up as speaker. (a high elven house at the time).  All positions are hereditary, and are passed down through a complicated succession.

         The elves started a aggressive expansion of their borders after the dragon lords where forced out.  This led to the first Elf/Dwarf war, and the many wars after that, which eventaully forced the dwarves farther and farther north. During these wars a new race was building it's own power base...soon the rise of the humans was a unstoppable tide, the elves realized they would have to work with the humans and steer them in their path so that it was one favorable to elven kind.   Strangely this has succeeded, and failed.  Elves are found in most human cultures,  half elves and even thinner bloods are not looked down upon, even a human/elven sub race has developed over the millennium, referred to as high men.  This led to elves being more known and not nearly as mysterious, as even most leaders of human kingdoms married elvish once every few generations to insure the longevity and purity of the elven blood in their lines.  Though some purist still watch the elves and refuse to allow their blood to be tainted. (on both sides)