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<blockquote data-quote="Sejs" data-source="post: 3085788" data-attributes="member: 4910">Well, first you make sure your name is Tellah and that your daughter is seeing this nancyboy bard you don't approve of...Beyond that, go a bit senile.&nbsp; First thing that comes to mind.&nbsp; Or an experiment gone wrong that screws with your memory.&nbsp; That doesn't address the issue of your spellbook though.&nbsp;Only thing that I can come up with off the cuff - age penalties.&nbsp; Level drain would do it, but not in the right way. &nbsp;The old uberelf assumption works off the idea that elves are out there kicking ass and taking names 24/7, though, and one of the standard fantasy troped regarding elves is that they tend to be the retreating type.&nbsp; Divorced from the normal coming and going of the world unless roused.&nbsp; Not much exp to be had in frolicing in moonlit glades, getting drunk off feywine, and doin' it for endless years.&nbsp; Gez also had a take on the issue that I'm rather fond of.&nbsp; Basically it states that elves naturally gravitate to a wild, feral, fey-like state if left to their own devices long enough, and that the function of their trance (rather than sleep) is to keep reliving their memories in order to stave that backsliding off.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sejs, post: 3085788, member: 4910"] Well, first you make sure your name is Tellah and that your daughter is seeing this nancyboy bard you don't approve of... Beyond that, go a bit senile. First thing that comes to mind. Or an experiment gone wrong that screws with your memory. That doesn't address the issue of your spellbook though. Only thing that I can come up with off the cuff - age penalties. Level drain would do it, but not in the right way. The old uberelf assumption works off the idea that elves are out there kicking ass and taking names 24/7, though, and one of the standard fantasy troped regarding elves is that they tend to be the retreating type. Divorced from the normal coming and going of the world unless roused. Not much exp to be had in frolicing in moonlit glades, getting drunk off feywine, and doin' it for endless years. Gez also had a take on the issue that I'm rather fond of. Basically it states that elves naturally gravitate to a wild, feral, fey-like state if left to their own devices long enough, and that the function of their trance (rather than sleep) is to keep reliving their memories in order to stave that backsliding off. [/QUOTE]

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