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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 9003539" data-attributes="member: 52734">For my Amberos campaign:The elves were formed in the Dreamlands of Aurora from the daydreams of the idle gods, as companions, hosts, servants and offspring.  When the gods stirred from their daydreams, several of these elves were brought to the Material world where they became flesh and blood.  An elf does not die of old age, and if their mortal form dies or an elf tires of it, their spirit returns to Aurora, where most stay for a time before possibly returning to the mortal realm.The goblinoids, conversely, were born of the ill dreams and nightmares of the gods.  When the elves passed through to the mortal realm, the goblins followed as well.  Where elves revelled in the joys their mortal frames could bring, the goblinoids sought to control and enslave.  To this end, the goblinoids turned some of the mortal giants to become soul-bound mercenaries that transformed into ogres and trolls.  When giantkind became reluctant to work with the goblinoids, the goblins created their own warrior race, the orcs.  Later, when the goblins were cursed by Ziga when she failed to usurp the orcs from goblin’s control to her own, the goblins lost their immortality and long lifespans.   Unlike the elves, when goblins die they return to their nightmarish realms in Aurora and to the suffering and pain awaiting them there.  They can only hope to escape that misery to less torturous land of the living.  Orcs, as “enhanced” goblinoids, share the same fate as their former goblin masters, if not granted the bliss of oblivion upon their death.Dark elves/Drow therefore are those elves whose nature has shifted them from being attuned to the pleasant dreamlands to the dark nightmarish corners of Aurora.  If they cannot realign their soul with the bright areas of Aurora, upon their death they are cast into the nightmare realms to suffer.  Perhaps luckily for them, their lifespans are not shortened like the goblinoids, so as long as they do not die to violence, they will not die of old age in the Mortal realm.</blockquote>

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