Elven spellcasters at rest

[Kae'Yoss]

"Creatures who don't sleep or dream (such as elves, but not half-elves) cannot be contacted by this spell."

So elves don't really dream in trance.

You misread that: they cannot be contacted by this spell because they don't sleep.

It means that creatures that don't sleep (no matter whether they dream or not) cannot be affected. And creatures that don't dream (no matter whether they sleep or not) cannot be affected.

If you say "boys older than 15 and girls cannot join that club" and a 16-year-old was turned away, he's not necessarily a girl!

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Oh well. So, in Return of the Archwizard, there's a hidden bit of background about elves unable to have normal sleep and finding it disgusting because humans do it (as well as every animals in their beloved forest, but well, elves are no rationnal creatures).

That's the vision of the author of that novel. I never saw it mentionned anywhere else; and in fact I'm not sure I like the idea. Or rather, I'm sure I don't like it.

He actually tells that elves sometimes sleep. But that's only in a case of greatest exhaustion (and more like unconsciousness).

My "they don't do it because humans do it" was just a joke, a reply to someone stating that elves are dumb cause they don't copy the humans and start to sleep.

In the novel, this Elf started to sleep, and others watched him. They didn't like it (and he himself, didn't like it, too, since he fell asleep on some occasions). They said it made him look disgusting.

If I see someone drooling in sleep I think they look worse for it. If I see a dog drool in his sleep, I don't mind. So the elves don't mind all the animals and other creatures sleeping, but they don't like it when their own do it. Because it's unnatural. They have no other quarrel with that. It's just not natural for an elf.