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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nellisir" data-source="post: 6052739" data-attributes="member: 70">Agreed.I like retaining the nymph as a quasi-generic "spirit of the wilderness", or put another way, a manifestation of the sublime in nature.  The original concept of the sublime in nature is of something wondrous, compelling, beautiful, and deadly.  I don't have an issue with dryads, naiads, and etc retaining an aspect of that, but they're specific manifestations of place, with different ways of threatening you.And I prefer the nymph as a supernaturally beautiful human, rather than elf.  That opens up the artistic vista a bit, I think.Edit:  Nymphs are beautiful humans.  Dryads are beautiful elves.  Oreads are beautiful dwarves (just...go with it).  That suddenly makes me think about dwarves interacting with oreads and the fey....</blockquote>