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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4248602" data-attributes="member: 19675">OK, so we're on the same page on ornamentation...Is the difficulty then how to describe that preference?If so, perhaps you should use more animist language in your descriptions.  IOW, something like..."To elvish craftmen, the form of an object is dictated by the needs and majesty of the spirit meant to inhabit the object's shape.  Thus, every act of creation- be it a simple knife or the most ornate attire- is a partnership between the spirit world and the crafter's hands.  A low and brutish spirit may be content to be housed in a boy's quickly created stone-chip knife...but only the spirit-guided hands of a master artisan can shape a weapon of steel, skin and bone worthy of being a great weapon spirit's dwelling place in the world of mortals."</blockquote>