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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7570417" data-attributes="member: 996"><p>I don't know how good these ideas are, but:</p><p></p><p>Back in the day, I reasoned, in my sophomoric teenage way, that if D&D elves lived like 1000 years (100+ times longer than humans, but are otherwise quite human-like), then they must gestate for like 100x as long, too, which works out to over 7 years. And 7's a nice mystical number. </p><p>Actually, I went through elven society/biology with an odd rule of thumb: everything about elves makes being an elf a little nicer for the individual, while ultimately dooming them to slow extinction as a species. I felt so clever, at the time.</p><p></p><p>… at some point, I may have grown up a little …</p><p></p><p>More recently I was mulling over the implications of the 4e version of Fey & the Feywild. PC fey, like Eladrin matured about like humans (clearly for game convenience), lived a good deal longer, and weren't remotely immortal. Yet, they had a rep as ageless, even immortal beings. The Feywild had an odd metaphysical attribute, too: in what is otherwise a multiverse of many parallel worlds, there is only one Feywild. </p><p>What I decided was that time in the Feywild was not like time in the rest of the multiverse. For instance, fey might leave the Feywild and visit a world in one era, then return to it centuries later, though no meaningful time had passed for them. A traveler from the world might visit the feywild for a long time, and return to his own world finding no time had passed, or that a great deal of time had passed (or even seemingly return to his own past). What could be going on, in addition to time being wonky in the Feywild, might be parallel-universe time-travel, that is, the World you go back too may seem just like your own in the past or future, but be a different world, entirely.</p><p>So Fey think of natural creatures as ephemeral, and natural creatures see the Fey as immortal, which the Fey, not known for their humility, go with and call natural races 'mortals.'</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 7570417, member: 996"] I don't know how good these ideas are, but: Back in the day, I reasoned, in my sophomoric teenage way, that if D&D elves lived like 1000 years (100+ times longer than humans, but are otherwise quite human-like), then they must gestate for like 100x as long, too, which works out to over 7 years. And 7's a nice mystical number. Actually, I went through elven society/biology with an odd rule of thumb: everything about elves makes being an elf a little nicer for the individual, while ultimately dooming them to slow extinction as a species. I felt so clever, at the time. … at some point, I may have grown up a little … More recently I was mulling over the implications of the 4e version of Fey & the Feywild. PC fey, like Eladrin matured about like humans (clearly for game convenience), lived a good deal longer, and weren't remotely immortal. Yet, they had a rep as ageless, even immortal beings. The Feywild had an odd metaphysical attribute, too: in what is otherwise a multiverse of many parallel worlds, there is only one Feywild. What I decided was that time in the Feywild was not like time in the rest of the multiverse. For instance, fey might leave the Feywild and visit a world in one era, then return to it centuries later, though no meaningful time had passed for them. A traveler from the world might visit the feywild for a long time, and return to his own world finding no time had passed, or that a great deal of time had passed (or even seemingly return to his own past). What could be going on, in addition to time being wonky in the Feywild, might be parallel-universe time-travel, that is, the World you go back too may seem just like your own in the past or future, but be a different world, entirely. So Fey think of natural creatures as ephemeral, and natural creatures see the Fey as immortal, which the Fey, not known for their humility, go with and call natural races 'mortals.' [/QUOTE]
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