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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sejs" data-source="post: 2408991" data-attributes="member: 4910">I can definitly agree with that, and it falls under the same aegis as the 'not playing them well' mentioned above.  Drew Hayes did a good job illustrating the point in one of his Poison Elves books; elves, as creatures that (baring misfortune) live for a long, long time are going to have a very different perspective on life than one held by a shorter-lived race such as humans.  And that even if a human were to extend their lifespan by a few hundred years via magic or somesuch, they're still likely to spend that time thinking like a human because that's how they're wired to think.  Extend it far enough and maybe that person will re-tool themselves enough such that they learn to step back a bit and look at the bigger picture, but it's not how a human's mind works by default.  Take a look at the elderly.  Take an eighty year old man, that breadth of experience just living, that patience taught to him over the years, and that wry amusement at just how worked up and passionate younger folks can get over even the seemingly smallest of things.  Take all that, and then put it inside the body of a boy who doesn't look a day over fifteen.  And that's just an elf at the awkward, early stages of their life; it just keeps on going from there.</blockquote>