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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Set" data-source="post: 3559824" data-attributes="member: 41584">Thanks!  I try to play up their otherworldly nature.  PHB Elves have a -2 Constitution, and live nearly forever, are deeply connected to the natural world, never sleep, can subsist on moonbeams and butterfly farts, etc.  It makes no sense to have these two things together, *unless* Elves have a very real reason to have a penalty to their Constitution, because they *aren't* part of this world, all in tune with nature.  If anything, nature kinda hates them, and recognizes that they are alien invaders, unwelcome at best.  Suddenly, the Elven 'frailty' makes some sense.  They aren't 'weak,' the world itself is constantly attacking them on a fundamental level, their otherworldly flesh not being ideally suited to live in our mortal world.They cheerily use powerful magic to warp great trees into dwellings, and does anyone really think that trees *like* this sort of thing, or that it is healthy or 'natural' to warp and twist and pervert natural creatures and forces to serve in this manner?Why is elven craft so magical?  Because it can't function any other way.  An elven-built house is a flimsy construct of illusion and magecraft, glorious in appearance, but rotten underneath, as much faerie glamour as substance.  Why would they learn mortal crafts?  Nothing that can be built will endure an elven lifetime anyway, why spend months and years learning to build perfect houses that will rot and collapse within a few short decades or centuries?  Who would want to live in a single place that long anyway?The world has a thousand cups, only a brief mortal would be content to drink from only one.</blockquote>

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