| Category | Races |
| Type | elf sub-race |
| Creation | 4 Bliss 1119 DE |
| Language | Elvish |
| Native | Kriav, Bal-Kriav |
When he was but an archangel, Corellon created the wood elves. They were fashioned after the Kriavfahliil, and thus himself, yet endowed with characteristics that enabled them to thrive in forested environments. His motivation for doing so was to diminish the probability of these two elven races competing for scarce resources; the Kriavfahliil preferring more open regions for habitation over concealing areas like forests.
Wood elves were created on Kriav. They have disseminated to other realms via feywild fuses, or are descendants of those who remained there after serving the angelic legions that battled the primordials in the Creation War and subsequently the fiends of the Demon Spawn War.
On Bal-Kriav, the wood elves are widely distributed. Their most substantial populations reside in the High Wood Country, Miradelgûn, and Elrohir Mithrandír regions.