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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jürgen Hubert" data-source="post: 396150" data-attributes="member: 7177">You are assuming that the treants have ambitions beyond "protecting nature". And call whatever you want to call elves, they are certainly "nature-loving" (and no knothole jokes, please). In the end, treants might simply believe that the elves are better for nature than all the other populous sapient species - and that would be true. You know what humans can do, and let's not dwell on the amount of tree-cutting that folks like dwarves, orcs, etc would do if they were unchecked.No, as far as the treants are concerned, the elves would serve best as the defenders of the forest. And in turn, it would only make sense to make their lives a bit easier so that they can concentrate on keeping humans and other pests out. Everything in nature is interlocked, don't cha know?   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Again, you are assuming that dryads have interests beyond keeping their little part of the forest tidy and maybe shagging a handsome male or two now and then (and here is another reason why elves have so low birth rates: The male elves regularily visit dryads, and thus don't feel any need to go into bed with female elves! Presumably, any sexually frustrated female elves visit satyrs, which are infertile with elves...).You know, this situation somehow reminds me of <a href="http://www.sjgames.com/transhuman/personnel/" target="_blank">Transhuman Space</a>, a science fiction background where many nations create so-called "bioroids", biological androids that are mentally conditioned to be obedient to their creators. There are bioroids for almost any job, and most of them are pretty enthusiastic about them.And seen in this light, the setup with all the sylvan creatures becomes pretty damn suspicious. Perhaps all of them were created a long time ago by elven archmages! (Why do you think is there an "Origin of Species" spell in the Epic Level Handbook, hmm?)I mean, you have the treants and other plant creatures for anything dealing with organics, dryads and satyrs as extremely eager sex slaves, and so on. No chains are required - the "slave races" would have it no other way. They might even be very smart and powerful, but that's OK - as long it is against their innermost nature to act against elves!And it would make sense from an elven point of view - take a few centuries off to create a slave race that won't actually mind its slavery, and then your species can live millenia of the good life!And what if there is an unseelie fey world out there, who would just love to enslave the whole elvish race.  They would be massively aided if the fey were already in bed with the elves.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />In my book, the Unseelie Court simply consists of elves who believe that humans make better playthings than pets.</blockquote>

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