By Wendi and Richard Pini
The early beginnings of the Elves is told in book 4, the book that I have probably read the most. They originated on a planet similar to ours in all ways that matter and progressed quite similarly, consuming the natural resources to develop great technological feats.
Eventually, the world was consumed, most of the other inhabitants became extinct. The people were forced to develop new resources. Namely the resources of the mind. They evolved into creatures that possessed the ability to manipulate matter with the mind, including their own bodies. They also stopped dying of old age. They could also leave their bodies at will and return to them as they pleased, spending much of their time dwelling on other planes of existence. However, they couldn't save their planet, it was dying and they were faced with a choice. They could leave their bodies permanetly and dwell forever in the ethereal or they could keep their physical forms and soar off into the cosmos to find a new place to dwell.
In the end they chose the latter. In a number of different spaceships (all powered only with their minds) they gathered up the remaining creatures that still shared the dying planet ( only two other species survived) and set off in different directions to find a new home.
Now, for various different reasons, I don't want to go into great detail about how they found the planet that ElfQuest takes place on or how they came to be known as elves. Suffice it to say, ElfQuest magnificently weaves a story of great detail and imagination that could, in some ways, be seen as a diagram for our own human potential. I highly reccommend it to anyone that wants to be entertained and also ponder the possibilities of the human mind.
To be continued.
