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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voranzovin" data-source="post: 8683320" data-attributes="member: 7020495">I rather like the idea that elves are incredibly conservative, but not in a way humans would recognize. The world they long for is so old, it goes right through human ideas of conservatism and back out the other side. The Elder Kingdoms didn't have judicial systems, or monetary systems, or even commerce as we'd understand it. They didn't have anything we'd recognize as laws. Instead, they had a bewildering web of esoteric customs and ancient pacts so old that their original import had been forgotten even by the elves. Occasionally, one of the Elvenlords would just suddenly draw their enchanted blade--probably named eldarion letharniel, the blade of strife or something--and behead a seemingly random onlooker, and every elf present would know exactly what subtle infraction that person had committed. That world was cruel, but it was also full of passion and beauty and tragedy and life, so much more then the drab grey world we know today.The elves, as elves are wont to do, mourn their fallen kingdoms in songs of such beauty and power that anyone who hears them is transported to that long-lost time, and loses themselves in the sorrow of the elves, never to see again the majesty of...wait a minute. Stop singing! That sucked for literally everyone who wasn't an elf! Yes, it did! That's why you don't have majestic kingdoms of whatever anymore. No, I don't want your pamphlet.That's actually pretty much how I do treat elves in my world. They don't actually starve to death very much, but they do lose track of time, and they mostly can't function very well in human society. Most elves live out in the woods and are never seen by humans--the ones that are are vagabonds, rarely capable of holding down a job or maintaining friendships with shorter-lived races--I mean, you turn your back and they up and die while you're not looking.</blockquote>

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