Yeah...like seriously I can't even tell you what it is about elves that makes them so attractive to me either. In every game, book, movie don't matter what it is I see elves and I start drooling 9 out of 10 times. And if it is a game and I have the option of playing an elf that's the only race I can play. I have no idea why.
There is an ethereal grace about them usually and they are usually designed as the manifestations of ideal beauty (human definitions to be sure), but also there is a wistful poetry about their existence in and of itself which makes them attractive, I think. Almost every fantasy that has elves usually sticks to the "elven formula," though DA places them into a new context, namely that their longevity, culture and history are all things of the past (that type of tragedy is very attractive, since it is a kind of collective wound that draws sympathy and a desire to fill the hollowness left behind by the absence of these things, so that doubles the attraction); actually, this very fact was one of the reasons I started playing DA in the first place, after reading the game's description. I was already a huge Witcher fan, where the elves are similarly mistreated by history and the present (ohhh, Witcher elves are very dangerous to be around 
), and I was intrigued by the concept of a world where elves were no longer any of the things one normally associates with the elven archetype. Naturally I started out as a Dalish elf, though I must say I hadn't mastered the CC yet and my first protagonist was... REALLY pale and gaunt to the point of absurdity. I even romanced Zev, because well, elf. 
Didn't become my canon, not even close, but still.
In short: I have no idea, but I'm obsessed with them.
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