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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 3551607" data-attributes="member: 7883">You're right in thinking that elves might not necessarily practice warmaking all the time.  I'd like to point out, however, that standard depictions have them actually being fairly warlike.  I mean, they're constantly fighting defensive conflicts against goblins, orcs, etc.  They simply don't go to war with humans that often....but they get lots of practice killing other humanoids.And whether they practice swordcraft and archery for art or not....it's still practice.  And I'd be willing to bet that the skill can transfer to warcraft very quickly.  Just as I'm confident that if you had a sport fencer who had trained for 10 years, and took a soldier and trained him to actually fight and kill with a sword for maybe 4 months, the fencer could likely catch up, and surpass the soldier, simply because he's been practicing related skills for so long.I think the lifespan thing would give immense advantages.  Imagine how many 2nd level warriors an elven army could field.  They could have tonnes of guys who fought in a war 50 years ago, and consequently reached lvl 2....and are still in condition to fight, whereas the humans alive back then are like 70 years old now.Banshee</blockquote>