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Is there any race which, without applying any external option (e.g. feat, template, spell),

  • qualifies as an elf for prerequisites (read: is named as some kind of elf, has the elf subtype, and/or has something like half-elves’ elven blood allowing the race to qualify), and

  • is not humanoid (read: has one of the other creature types)?

Official material (WotC-published or WotC-approved, e.g. Dragon, Dungeon, Oriental Adventures) only. Templates not allowed even if printed that way (e.g. if someone wrote an article about half-dragon elves and wrote up racial stats for them with the half-dragon template baked in, that doesn’t count—but a draconic elf that isn’t made from a template could work). LA +0 races vastly preferred.

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While they don't qualify, I'd expect driders to fit that - but their description rules doesn't reflect their elven history in any way... – G0BLiN 3 hours ago
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@G0BLiN Great thought, though I suppose it does kind of make sense that Lolth’s punishment would twist drow so much that they are no longer even elves anymore. – KRyan 3 hours ago
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The only non-humanoid elf race I know of are the Fey'ri (Races of Faerun, p. 118), who are Outsiders that count as elves due to the Elven Blood racial feature. Unfortunately, they're LA +2.

A perusal of all the lists turned up by Google doesn't yield any other promising results, as far as I can tell.

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Great answer, I really appreciate you showing your work and letting me know what has already been checked. – KRyan 3 hours ago
    
Leshay (from the epic level handbook) may or may not count too. They are Fey, but their fluff talks about elves, and they have the ability "elf traits". – fectin 3 hours ago
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The Elf Traits feature doesn't mention anything about counting as elves for prereq purposes, and they don't have a listed LA (for obvious reasons related to their 50 HD). I feel pretty okay about leaving them off this answer. – A_S00 2 hours ago
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The celadrin should work

The Dragon #350 article "Legacies of Ancient Empires" (50-7) by Eric Boyd describes the celadrin planetouched. They possess the type outsider and the subtype native, have Level Adjustment +1 and no racial Hit Dice, and possess, among other abilities, the racial trait elven blood:

For all special abilities and effects related to race, a celadrin is considered an elf. Celadrins, for example, can use elven weapons and magic items with racially specific elven powers as if they were elves. (52)

While this description of the racial trait elven blood is slightly different from the description found in the Player's Handbook and Monster Manual for Dungeons and Dragons 3.5, it nonetheless aligns perfectly (with appropriate finding-and-replacing, obviously) with the half-elf racial trait elven blood from the Player's Handbook for Dungeons and Dragons, Third Edition! Despite Dragon magazine having converted to 3.5e over forty issues earlier, with such evidence in hand, it should be a small matter to convince the DM to make a minor adjustment that will bring this outdated Third Edition description of the racial trait elven blood up to 3.5e standards.

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