>>96194365
Honestly this is best. Elves are just beyond human understanding with knowledge and wisdom of the world's harmonious mechanics that exceeds our own, like a graceful, almost sanctified midground between human rationale and kindness along with animal instinct and symbiosis. However, good humans with no knowledge but a bleeding heart and faith in justice trying to be the best person that they can in a world that isn't, to give some light of hope in darkness is peak, plain and simple. Especially when the elves recognize that while their cultures are different, and the others are ignorant, their hearts share a yearning for peace and prosperity for all good peoples even if they don't know the path to that future, and will gladly guide or even aid them to reach that mutual end.
Or they could just be terrible fey mirrors that have as much of an ambivalence towards humans as a human might have towards a pack of wolves. The collective of humanity is disruptive when overpopulated, but the singular specimen is just as likely to be enjoyed for the novelty as it is an opportune resource, some even showing an affinity worth a semblance of companionship and spirited away from their kin.