My basic idea is that alongside the integration movement there have been several secondary, smaller-scale social movements, including a truly successful push for Elven Freedom. So, long ago, the wand was invented concurrently by magical people in several parts of the world, including China in the days of Confucius, India in the days of Gautama Buddha, and Ancient Greece, well-known for being the progenitor of modern European magic. There were, at the time, two distinct species of Elves in Europe: “Wild” or “Forest” Elves, who lived apart from humans in their own magical communities, and “Metropolitan” Elves, who were friends to the Greeks, lived in their cities, and even helped them develop magical theory and wandlore. The Wild Elves did not like humans, and they definitely didn’t like their wealthy, snobbish, “superior” cousins, so once the wand became a popular tool, they devised a plan to undercut the Metropolitan Elves, playing off of the greedy, domineering and distrustful nature they saw in humans.

It is important to note that Elves of both kinds were connected by their magic, similar but altogether different from that of humans, and the Wild Elves were especially cunning in its use. A ritual was forged, a powerful, Dark blood curse that would bind the Elves and their blood to the blood of specific magical families; most importantly, it was performed by a Wild Elf and a magical human, both wielding wands. The Wild Elves convinced the Greeks, despite the protestations of the Metropolitans, that their cousins desired to use wands to overthrow the humans and set themselves up as the rulers of the various city states, and offered their ritual as a fitting punishment for this traitorous pride… And it worked. Before long, Metropolitan Elves ceased to exist, replaced entirely by the magically obedient slaves known from then on as “House-Elves”. The Wild Elves, gleeful in their trickery, disappeared back into their forest homes, barely ever heard from again (it is believed that other wild, Elf-like creatures, such as Erklings, are descended from these beings).

Through breeding programs and manipulation of the blood curse, the practice of keeping House-Elf servants survived the millennia, and was spread all over the ancient and modern worlds by Alexander, the Roman Empire, and (most recently) European Colonialism. The stipulation of clothes was a final jest, a final piece of degradation on the part of the Wild Elves, forcing the Metropolitans to wear rags and discarded things, or else go nude, when once they had worn the finest of clothes, on par with the Greek nobility. That, and the tests of time, changed the once-proud Metropolitans into the rather pitiful creatures seen in the HP books. In the 21st Century, however, as the whispers of integration began to be felt around the magical world, certain “strange” Elves began to see that they might actually have a chance to break the subtle magic that had been a part of their lives for so long. All they really needed were wands. Sympathetic wizards and witches began to teach this unique group of revolutionaries in wand-based magic and magical theory, until finally, in the early 2020s, a breakthrough was had.

This group, along with their human sympathizers, managed to magically isolate the hidden curse deep within their own blood, and broke it, becoming the first Free Elfmages of the Era of Integration. There would be many more. Once the curse was broken, multitudes of Elves who otherwise would never have left their masters or demanded equal rights had life-shattering epiphanies. They wanted more from their lives. They wanted freedom, and self-determination, and they didn’t want to be bound by the uncaring laws of humans. So, as their numbers swelled, and more Elves were set free, they formed their own, separate governing bodies in the various magical and nonmagical states, known as “Elfmoots” (the American Elfmoot, the Brazilian Elfmoot, the Chinese Elfmoot, etc). These groups were on the cutting edge of the Integration, instrumental in showing the nonmagical world how beneficial magic could be, by setting up magically-replenished wells in areas of extreme poverty, providing food and magical medical care to anyone they could, and generally aiding the poor and downtrodden of both worlds. They had been there. They knew what it was like.

Elves began to be accepted into prominent magical schools, such as Hogwarts and Beauxbatons and the School of Athens. New Elfmages, with their own wands, started studying the differences between Elf magic and human magic, becoming highly acclaimed in the field of magical theory. It was even in conjunction with the Elfmoots that magical electronics and technology were developed, as it was discovered that Elfmages have a knack for nontraditional enchantments. For example, the method Nataana, the Elfmoot Agent, has for disguising herself as a human is known as a PersonHood, a strange and difficult to explain amalgam of genetic engineering and magic that allows an Elf to inhabit and psychically control a specially prepared human body, making her appear human to all but the most absolutely strenuous magical and scientific tests. It is still in the trial phase, but Nataana’s superiors wanted to give it a live situation to be tested in, so she was given one as the basis of her cover.

Despite all of this, the Fraternity and other “Old Guard” witches and wizards are very distrustful of the Free Elves and the Elfmoots, and pine for the days in which the House-Elves had been such wonderfully reliable servants… Giving the Elfmoots a very good reason to work against such groups, hence their loaning of Nataana to MBI Internal Affairs.