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<blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 8529957" data-attributes="member: 23751">I've been reading through the 2e Complete Book of Elves and it isn't even a fact that the tree shown in this thread is true.&nbsp; It's just a theory.&quot;If it were true that the elves did originate from one world, it should come as no surprise that they deny it. Having seen what other races have done to their worlds and how many of these worlds are now obliterated, the elves would naturally want to make sure that none of these races would discover and then destroy the elf homeworld.Conversely, another theory states that elves only learned to live in harmony with their new worlds through the destruction of their original home. This, the critics claim, is the elven shame, and they hide the planet because they don't wish it known that they weren't always as insufferably perfect as they are now.&quot;And then later in the world creation section...&quot;Maybe they were created as the Story of Creation in Chapter One suggests, from the blood of Corellon Larethian as he battled the evil orc god Gruumsh. Maybe the elves simply sprang from the world and are the true children of the earth. Whatever the truth, the DM must explain the existence of the elves and how they have come to be as they are and where they are today.&quot;So even in the Complete Book of Elves it isn't any sort of established fact that the elves all sprang from one root and spread out.&nbsp; That tree is just another theory as to the origins of elves for the DM to adopt or not.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Maxperson, post: 8529957, member: 23751"] I've been reading through the 2e Complete Book of Elves and it isn't even a fact that the tree shown in this thread is true. It's just a theory. [B]"If it were true[/B] that the elves did originate from one world, it should come as no surprise that they deny it. Having seen what other races have done to their worlds and how many of these worlds are now obliterated, the elves would naturally want to make sure that none of these races would discover and then destroy the elf homeworld. Conversely,[B] another theory[/B] states that elves only learned to live in harmony with their new worlds through the destruction of their original home. This, the critics claim, is the elven shame, and they hide the planet because they don't wish it known that they weren't always as insufferably perfect as they are now." And then later in the world creation section... "Maybe they were created as the Story of Creation in Chapter One suggests, from the blood of Corellon Larethian as he battled the evil orc god Gruumsh. Maybe the elves simply sprang from the world and are the true children of the earth. Whatever the truth, the DM must explain the existence of the elves and how they have come to be as they are and where they are today." So even in the Complete Book of Elves it isn't any sort of established fact that the elves all sprang from one root and spread out. That tree is just another theory as to the origins of elves for the DM to adopt or not. [/QUOTE]

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