Elves, and why AHIH is considered the First Elf despite not being of their race.
Traveling back to the prehistoric era, after the first true human species had finally emerged, AHIH entered the period it was responsible for, taking over the role from the older AHIH.
This was after AHIH left the Vast Lehatot household under the care of Salvation's maternal grandfather, who was considered the most competent for the role.
It was also not long after AHIH abandoned the identity of Victor and departed from Port Bravo.
During this era AHIH spent much of its time observing early human tribes. Among them, one tribe moving northwest caught its attention more than the others.
Part of the reason came from pre-transmigration knowledge. The other part was simple fascination toward ancient pre-civilizations.
For the first time in a long while, AHIH witnessed what humans were originally meant to be.
Not kingdoms.
Not institutions.
Not populations controlled through systems and laws.
But families and friends.
Groups bound together naturally.
Ironically, this ideal somewhat contradicted AHIH's own role in shaping civilization, yet it was also something AHIH desperately wanted to preserve.
Eventually AHIH chose to involve itself directly.
Retaking Salvation's appearance, blonde hair and bright auburn-red eyes, it began appearing during hunts and moments of crisis. Over time the tribe started leaving offerings for the mysterious woman of the forest, eventually deifying her.
Once AHIH gained influence over them, it slowly guided the tribe northward into the region that, thousands of years later, would become the Great Forest.
As decades passed, AHIH eventually had children with a dragon known as Nehatot the Desert Dragon.
One child inherited more of the draconic traits and became known as Behatot.
The other inherited traits tied to Salvation's bloodline.
Long after this era, during the time Jack was first active, Salvation's grandmother had experimented on herself using modern elvish genetics in order to extend her lifespan. Those traits remained dormant within the form AHIH now used.
That inheritance became the basis of the elven race.
The daughter born from it was named Elvare.
She possessed long blonde hair, bright auburn-red eyes, elongated ears that slightly drooped due to their softness, and a lifespan vastly beyond humans, in the thousand year mark.
Elvare became the first true elf.
After AHIH eventually departed, Elvare inherited the tribe's spiritual authority and slowly became viewed as a lesser forest deity by her descendants.
By the time she died around a thousand years later and became a spirit due to her race's regenerating spirituality, the entire tribe had already descended from her lineage.
Because of those origins, elves never fully developed like southern human civilizations.
They valued social bonds far more than economics, bureaucracy, or expansion.
Their societies remained decentralized for most of history.
Technologically and magically however, elves advanced extremely quickly.
Their long lifespans allowed knowledge to accumulate over centuries, and after death elves became spirits capable of continuing to teach future generations.
As a result, even isolated villages could preserve techniques and knowledge older than entire human kingdoms.
Elves also believed that AHIH—and by extension the Creator Lehatot—loved them specifically because they preserved the older way of life.
That belief eventually developed into strong cultural isolationism. While not discriminating on outsiders, though they still treat them as children.
Attempts by southern kingdoms to invade the Great Forest always ended in failure.
Not because elves possessed overwhelming numbers, but because they possessed superior magical systems, better craftsmanship, spirit-guided strategies, and warriors trained using centuries of accumulated experience.
The existence of elves forms part of a self-sustaining causal structure centered around AHIH. While elves historically view AHIH as their origin, the deeper truth is that their existence is one of the many anchors ensuring the stability of the world itself.
AHIH creates the conditions necessary for elves to exist in the past, while future historical events, societies, bloodlines, spirits, and causal chains all later depend on the existence of elves. Removing AHIH from the timeline would therefore not simply erase a species, but destabilize countless connected events across history.
This is one of the incredibly many reasons why AHIH's transmigration is considered the True Year Zero. It is not merely an important event in history, but a foundational causal point upon which the continuity of the world depends. Without it, reality itself would begin showing signs of structural failure.