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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Green Adam" data-source="post: 3551455" data-attributes="member: 50821">Thank you Shark, as always you see more then one side of a given idea. I'm on that other thread and I'll admit to having certain elements of the subject push my buttons, which is no small feet since the button are only for show and don't really activate anything (it's just set decoration after all  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ). However, Elves are a major force to be reckoned with in my campaigns and always have been. I have used the Tolkiens Elves, D&D Elves, Welsh, Scottish and Irish Folklore and used all of this as an inspiration for my Elves, not as the gospel burned into stone from on high. Also after 30 years of gaming, the cultural, art, music, food and customs of the Elves, even among the sub-races, have grown and changed. They are not all one thing just as humans are not all one way. They High Elves are more militant since their kingdom was founded by a female warrior and her followers. The Wood Elves are Merchants, Hunters and Farmers with many skilled craftsmen with a love of the land. No two Elven groups are exactly the same though they share the same history and of course physical attributes. A most distinctive example of this are my Half-Elves. These are not shunned half breeds or unique beings. They are a race with a land and a culture all their own. Humans and Elves on a busy port island have been mating for so many centuries that they are a species on to themselves. Remember, if a Half-Elf has kids with a Half-Elf the children are...wait for it...Half-Elves!As far as doomed, hardly! Why would they be? The idea of the Elves departure in Tolkien's books was a metaphor for the magic going away as you grow up and the real world sets in. There is no chance of that on my world. It's a fantasy world, it always was and it always will be. Knights slay monsters, Elves trade with Dwarves and living Golems sit down to dinner with Homonculi. Unless the whole world runs out of food, water, livible conditions and their mystical power crystals are all destroyed, Elves are going anywhere.</blockquote>

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