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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mroberon1972" data-source="post: 1546743" data-attributes="member: 5148">I have a good reason for you:Tradition.Elves live to be 500+ years old.  Due to that, nothing will ever change in the PC's lifetime.  Period.Why?  Have you ever seen how hard it is for anything to change when the older generation does not want it to?  The historical statment of 'honor your elders' is based on the idea of a councel of elders.  They determin what will happen in many cases.  I debait over the 'human threat' might take over a hundred years.  Do you know how much of america was taken over in 100 years, even with opposition?The elves, if thier traditional portrail is of any value, are slow to make community decisions.  They can act instantly is attacked, but if they have to make a community decision, they debate it for years.Think of it this way:  They see themselves as the top of the foodchain.  WHat do they really have to worry about?  It does not matter this may not be the truth, THEY see it as truth, and it colors all thier decisions.Course, there is not reason not to have elves rule the world.  In fact, go a bit farther:  The elves and the dwarves are now in a state of bloody war, with the humans enslaved.  Gnomes have joined the dwarves, the halflings now support the elves, and the orcs are a fading memory...It's not why have they not ruled the world, it's what would happen if they did.That's why they call it fantasy!</blockquote>