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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jrowland" data-source="post: 6985904" data-attributes="member: 94389">My 2cp:Fairy Tale logic is the logic of the "Feywild" - No logic at all! It is the logic of emotional narrative, where the knight finds the enchantress in the tower because that is where Knights find enchantresses. The tower cannot be found on a map, it doesn't exist, except after the knight passes three trials, then and only then is the tower revealed. Elves do not sleep, but rest in "reverie", which is closing off the mundane "natural" world for a time and drifting into the emotional narrative of the Fey. In the Arturian sense, the King (of the fey) and the land are one not only figuratively (in the arthurian sense) but also literally! When the Fey Queen of winter is sad, it snows, when she is angry, it blizzards, when happy, the sun shines off the ice formations and sparkles in a radiant display.My recommendation is to forget the mundane logistics, and move into high fantasy: The elves are hunter and gathers, yes, but they also engage in the fey emotional narrative: coaxing the apple tree to provide fruit with a song, wheat grows from the footsteps of a complex community dance, then spills the bran into the waiting baskets of children as the chaff blows away on the breeze. The children toss the bran into a bonfire while gnomes somersault over the fire in a song, bearing fresh bread in the arms when they leave the flames...</blockquote>