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Message: <blockquote data-quote="f33b" data-source="post: 4348307" data-attributes="member: 61141">I think a lot of the posts assume the Eladrin have a relatively "Western" (by which I mean western Europe/north American) of time or timeliness. Per the PHB (pg 39) Eladrin live ~300 years, and barely age (lack of old age related infirmity). Why shouldn't they have a more leisurely view on time? This would support a lack of stairs, or more efficient means of "manual" transportation.I don't think Eladrin teleportation needs to be about efficiency, especially as the Eladrin are a "fey" race. I see it more as a tool to take a non-linear, perhaps even paradoxical path. The Eladrin are not necessarily bound by human concepts of time or space. I'm reminded of the famous quote from Wagner's Parsifal, "Here,  time becomes space." In contrast, according to the PHB elves mature at the same rate as humans, and do not live nearly as long as their Eladrin cousins, and thus may be more firmly rooted, or at least tied to, a "mortal" concept of space and time.Going back to Eladrin cities for a bit, if we do the math on Fey Step, it works out that over an 18 hour period, and Eladrin can teleport a total of ~5400 feet, or little over a mile. Imagine an Eladrin citadel, atop a mountain nearly a mile high, with sheer cliff faces and only a few narrow ledges every 20 or so feet. There need not be one path to the summit either, and perhaps some ledges are trapped.This would make a nearly unassailable stronghold. Consider the real world examples, such as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteora" target="_blank">Meteora Monasteries</a> of Greece. From fantasy; the Eyrie in the Song of Fire and Ice.</blockquote>

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