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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7570428" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>I don't know how sophomoric it is, or at least I don't want to think of it as sophomoric because I reasoned along similar lines (just with different math). </p><p></p><p>There is also canonical justification for this reasoning. According to the lore of the elven deities', they are long lived because Labelas Enoreth gave them the gift that time would pass slowly for them. Thus, it's a very major portion of my elvish lore that elvish pregnancy and childhood (and really all parts of a normal elven life) are things that last a very long time. A good deal of the writings on the culture of elves in my homebrew world is about this very thing. It's also one of the reasons that half-elves are so very rare in the lore of my game, and why both sides frown on such matches so extremely. Humans and elves just aren't very compatible, by inclination, culture, or biology. Most half-blooded infants die in the womb, often killing the full-blooded parent. </p><p></p><p>You may not have been nearly as clever as you thought, but everything about your reasoning is I think supportable from the lore. More importantly, to me its just a whole lot more interesting if elves are really different on multiple levels from humans and are forced by their biology to see the world differently.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7570428, member: 4937"] I don't know how sophomoric it is, or at least I don't want to think of it as sophomoric because I reasoned along similar lines (just with different math). There is also canonical justification for this reasoning. According to the lore of the elven deities', they are long lived because Labelas Enoreth gave them the gift that time would pass slowly for them. Thus, it's a very major portion of my elvish lore that elvish pregnancy and childhood (and really all parts of a normal elven life) are things that last a very long time. A good deal of the writings on the culture of elves in my homebrew world is about this very thing. It's also one of the reasons that half-elves are so very rare in the lore of my game, and why both sides frown on such matches so extremely. Humans and elves just aren't very compatible, by inclination, culture, or biology. Most half-blooded infants die in the womb, often killing the full-blooded parent. You may not have been nearly as clever as you thought, but everything about your reasoning is I think supportable from the lore. More importantly, to me its just a whole lot more interesting if elves are really different on multiple levels from humans and are forced by their biology to see the world differently. [/QUOTE]
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