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<blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 9287935" data-attributes="member: 58172"><p>When a community of Elves enters a new environment, they can anatomically adapt themselves to the environment immediately. They perform a mythal to transform the members of the community.</p><p></p><p>Once a community adapts to an environment, it tends to remain in place for centuries, even millenniums. An Elf community continues to develop, via future mythals across the centuries, and tends to evolve a unique culture. It is an evolution by choice.</p><p></p><p>From such an elven community, individual Elves and groups can venture off to found a new community elsewhere.</p><p></p><p></p><p>This instant evolution via a mythal appears to happen in ancient times. Elves of the Feywild explored the other side of a Fey Crossing into the Material Plane. Then a community of Elves immigrated there by performing a mythal to create new enduring Human bodies of flesh and blood for themselves.</p><p></p><p>These now Material Elves founded the first town to safeguard and regulate the Fey Crossing.</p><p></p><p>These Material Elves engaged the nearby Human communities. From Humans, the Elves learned to master the martial power source, developing the arcane-martial fusions of Eldritch Knight and Bladesinger combat styles.</p><p></p><p>Along with other various mythals, and communities at other Fey Crossings, the Elves evolved a unique cultural tradition, the High culture today.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Elves are shapeshifters, innately. 5e sometimes leans into this, especially for (nonmechanical thematic) ambient flavor. Such as becoming groomed and polished for a party or ragged and skeletal for a funeral.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Yaarel, post: 9287935, member: 58172"] When a community of Elves enters a new environment, they can anatomically adapt themselves to the environment immediately. They perform a mythal to transform the members of the community. Once a community adapts to an environment, it tends to remain in place for centuries, even millenniums. An Elf community continues to develop, via future mythals across the centuries, and tends to evolve a unique culture. It is an evolution by choice. From such an elven community, individual Elves and groups can venture off to found a new community elsewhere. This instant evolution via a mythal appears to happen in ancient times. Elves of the Feywild explored the other side of a Fey Crossing into the Material Plane. Then a community of Elves immigrated there by performing a mythal to create new enduring Human bodies of flesh and blood for themselves. These now Material Elves founded the first town to safeguard and regulate the Fey Crossing. These Material Elves engaged the nearby Human communities. From Humans, the Elves learned to master the martial power source, developing the arcane-martial fusions of Eldritch Knight and Bladesinger combat styles. Along with other various mythals, and communities at other Fey Crossings, the Elves evolved a unique cultural tradition, the High culture today. Elves are shapeshifters, innately. 5e sometimes leans into this, especially for (nonmechanical thematic) ambient flavor. Such as becoming groomed and polished for a party or ragged and skeletal for a funeral. [/QUOTE]
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