The Blanketfort (crying and throwing up) - The Official Solas Thread [Spoilers]

Well there seems some evidence that Andruil liked hunting primitive humans: "When Anduril grew tired of hunting mortal men and beasts...." Also some of the Alamarri/Avaar legends and gods bear similarities with elven deities, which might indicate they were familiar with them. For example, the Avaar Guardian of wisdom is Sigfrost, the Great Bear, and the bear is the sacred beast of Dirthamen, the elven god of secrets and knowledge; Rilla of the Fireside is the Avaar patron of children and babies, Sylaise the Heathkeeper fills the same role with the Dalish. The Avaar have a trickster god, Imhar, the elves have Fen'Harel.    The Avaar home of the gods is Belanas, a mountain city in the Sky; the elven word for eternal is Belanaris and the "eternal" Golden City is said by the elves to be the home of their gods.   Belanas was destroyed by a battle between Korth and a great serpent, which left a crater that was filled by the tears of the Lady of the Skies; according to Maryden, Arlathan now lies deep on the ocean floor (likely not destroyed by Tevinter but the earlier war of the gods and their followers or simply by the raising of the Veil).   Or may be the Avaar were just familiar with Skyhold, up in the mountains and with old magic associated with it.

In DAO, if we play the Dalish Origin, we see evidence of human/elven co-existence in the ruin that we find. Then we see a similar thing when we visit the later ruin in the Brecilin Forest. I'm not sure but I think the spirit of the Arcane Warrior there even speaks of humans and elves fighting some great evil together.

Also both the Neromenians and the Alamaari/Avaar seem to know how to call a spirit into an animal, particularly a dragon. Did they acquire this knowledge from spirits of the Fade or did they learn it from elves? The fact that they associate gods with dragons would suggest they were familiar with the time "before the Veil when the dragons ruled the skies". The human folklore of Seheron also speaks of their great heroes of the past who "learned at the feet of elves".

What we don't yet know is where the humans originally came from and why? The Neromenians were seafarers and said to have first appeared in Par Vollen and the other northern islands in -3100 which was 250 years before the elves felt the Quickening, which suggests they arrived before the Veil but close enough in time that they could be associated with the loss of immortality. Some 600 years after the arrival of the first humans we have the first references to the Alamaari in the Frostback Mountains fleeing a Shadow Goddess, which Solas confirms with one of his Fade tales. So the humans do seem to have spread fairly quickly or alternatively the Alamaari came from a different source to the Neromenians.

My own personal theory is that not all elves entered uthenera after the Veil was raised. Likely many of those who remained in circulation were Fen'Harel's followers who were not welcome in the other elven enclaves. They interacted with the newly arrived humans, formed relationships and produced elf bloodied children, this being how magic entered the human race. Gradually all trace of the elven forebears died out, leaving the human race with magically gifted children but no trace of their origins.