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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Haldrik" data-source="post: 8082851" data-attributes="member: 6694221">The playtest presents the description of Elf origins as a collection of competing narratives. Each elf culture champions its own traditions concerning "who was first".This plurality is highly useful for game play, because it can accommodate different kinds of settings (even modern and scifi!), and individual personal preferences.The difficulty is: How would an elf not know what the origins are? Elves are longlived, and there well may be elves who are still around who were alive back then during these origins.It occurs to me.Elves correlate with the timelines of fates. It might well be, there are rare instances of time travel, perhaps for the sake of outmaneuvering a disastrous future that destroys humanity. Despite this reweaving of past fates being rare, it is highly significant. The time paradoxes are disruptive but sometimes a necessary consequence.Thus, the elf origins involve time paradoxes, where the conflicting points of views of various elf cultures are factually correcting, each from their own relativistic point of view. So, while the elves acknowledge the conflicting traditions as legitimate, each culture champions its own relativistic temporal point of view. Of course. And these conflicting perspectives become a kind of rivalry between cultural identities, similar to rival sports teams.</blockquote>