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The ACTUAL reason for elven infertility
The articles above supply the answer to the long standing question: why are elves so infertile?
In medieval times, the average woman lived to about the age of 30, and had about 10 children in her lifetime. (These are the actual real, and very sad, statistics.)
Now, elves live in a much more altruistic (and not real) world, where they are better treated and fed and whatnot ... in other worlds, elven women don't usually die from having children.
And the REAL secret is that, elven women as just as fertile as human women. The secret elves will never admit to, folks. (Just try and get that secret out of them. They aren't telling!)
So, let's say the average elven woman has 1 child every 1 1/2 years, starting at age 100.
That means that, by age 200, that elven woman has 65 children.
And all of them are now teen-agers.
That's 65 teen-agers whose primary words are PARTY, FOOD FIGHT, GIRLS (and naughty things I can't say on ENWorld), NIGHTS ON THE TOWN, ESCAPADE AND ADVENTURE, and did I mention trashing the elven household?
65 children, and two parents. (And people wonder why it takes the entire elven community to raise the children? LOL.)
Since your ordinary elven father and ordinary elven mother are flighty and frivolous people, not superpowerful chronomancers with the patience of Job and the endurance of a tarrasque (and the intelligence and wisdom of the Krell), they take plenty of herbs to stop fertility.
In this way - and by having only 1 or 2 children per 1,000 years (with teenagers to care for for 70 years each, even THAT is really asking something) the average elven father and mother can hope to remain sane - flighty and frivolous - and not go utterly insane - manaical and murderous.
And those are the facts!
The articles above supply the answer to the long standing question: why are elves so infertile?
In medieval times, the average woman lived to about the age of 30, and had about 10 children in her lifetime. (These are the actual real, and very sad, statistics.)
Now, elves live in a much more altruistic (and not real) world, where they are better treated and fed and whatnot ... in other worlds, elven women don't usually die from having children.
And the REAL secret is that, elven women as just as fertile as human women. The secret elves will never admit to, folks. (Just try and get that secret out of them. They aren't telling!)
So, let's say the average elven woman has 1 child every 1 1/2 years, starting at age 100.
That means that, by age 200, that elven woman has 65 children.
And all of them are now teen-agers.
That's 65 teen-agers whose primary words are PARTY, FOOD FIGHT, GIRLS (and naughty things I can't say on ENWorld), NIGHTS ON THE TOWN, ESCAPADE AND ADVENTURE, and did I mention trashing the elven household?
65 children, and two parents. (And people wonder why it takes the entire elven community to raise the children? LOL.)
Since your ordinary elven father and ordinary elven mother are flighty and frivolous people, not superpowerful chronomancers with the patience of Job and the endurance of a tarrasque (and the intelligence and wisdom of the Krell), they take plenty of herbs to stop fertility.
In this way - and by having only 1 or 2 children per 1,000 years (with teenagers to care for for 70 years each, even THAT is really asking something) the average elven father and mother can hope to remain sane - flighty and frivolous - and not go utterly insane - manaical and murderous.
And those are the facts!
