doctorbadwolf
Heretic of The Seventh Circle
also this, yeah. Stuff grows in the forest.Forests have clearings, you can clear the undergrowth and thin out trees to let in more light.
It's only high intensity agriculture requires lots of light. Personally I've seen wild raspberries growing in forests and there's other edible things like mushrooms and truffles.
We got taught at young age what you can safely eat. Great outdoors and all that. If they don't need to export and don't have large cities I don't think you would even need magic.
The population density factor is huge. Elfs don’t build densely packed cities.