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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lall" data-source="post: 8300191" data-attributes="member: 6792346">In defense of the grey elves and drow...The 2e Book of Elves has a very pro-elf creation story. One group of gods took a very long time to create the elves. As they were getting close to putting the finishing touches on them, another set of gods got jealous and frantically tried their own creations, spending very little time on them. The latter set of gods produced everything non-elf such as humans, dwarves, etc.So many elves may believe this creation story to be true and have genuine, non-racist sympathy for the “lesser” races, e.g. not as beautiful, not as graceful, has to sleep, not as long-lived, etc. Moreover, in 5e (not sure how it worked in previous editions), Reincarnate exists, so every non-elf humanoid has the opportunity to be an elf. (And non-humanoids and humanoids both could possibly use Wish to achieve the same result.) So the “they have no control of their race” argument goes away.So if an elf is walking down the street and sees a non-elf they may: 1. Feel sorry for them as the non-elf is missing out on all things elf, 2. Feel sorry for themselves as they have to interract with them (perhaps causing them to give more thought to moving to an elf-only community), and/or 3. Be disappointed that the non-elf and/or their ancestors haven’t remedied the situation yet.</blockquote>