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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormborn" data-source="post: 3381461" data-attributes="member: 14041">Another IdeaDont normally post twice in a row, but this seemed to warrent a seperate thought:In the tropical seas there can be a major underwater civilization(s).  Perhaps of Aquatic elves.  There are few settings that I know of that feature large and thriving underwater civilizations and it would help to further differentiate the setting.  Picture this:  The elven civilization of the world is not one of forest but one of the sea.  The elves on land are decendants of ambasadors who voluntarilly gave up the sea to go to land and teach the primative land based civilizations.  The human tribes they chose became the powerful nations that now control magic and steel.   The elves are now few in number on land, and often live in hidden valleys and semimonastic enclaves where they can keep an eye on their human charges. Half-elves are simply elves that are further debased from their aquatic elven roots and are not uncommon in the advanced human cities.  Dwarven animosity comes from the elven interferance with human culture, which the dwarves viewed as poaching since many bands of primative humans and orcs served the dwarves as slave labor in ancient times.  Drow can, with a little mechanical change, be deep dweling aquatic elves who worship an ancient leviathan god or a group that was exiled into the air filled caverns beneath the sea in some ancient civil war.  In the current climate of invasion the ancient elven teachers have once again begun directing their charges, encouraging them to take what was started and spread it to other human tribes.  Something that was always supposed to happen but never did.   Some of the dwarves have put aside the old animosity to aid in fighting the invaders while others have simply shut their gates and wait.  Primative humans, and the more primative orc cultures, are dealing with the invasion as best they can, some welcoming the aid of their advanced cousins and others hating them just as much as they do the aberrations.   Meanwhile the aquatic elven civilization is having their own problems dealing with the invaders, particularly the aboleth ruled slave armires.</blockquote>

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