Alex always believed the elves to be a peace-loving race who only resorted to violence when their boundaries were crossed, and even if they were evil like others, he didn't expect them to be driven by greed to such a scale.
But after learning the dark past of elves, he saw them and many other races with much less respect, as they had slaughtered their own kin for power, a full subspecies of elves, named strong blood as they were called a millennia ago, to extinction.
In annals of time, since life had begun in the ancient world, there were many subspecies of all races that were either different in form or just had different elemental natures, and the same was true for elves, but they were still collectively known as elves.