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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BlackMoria" data-source="post: 1844329" data-attributes="member: 424">How about stop lending him books?   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Really....your problems started when he read the books you lent him. He reads about interesting or exciting places or people and he wants to be a part of that.  If he read any of the Drizzt books, you would be sure that he would want to go to Mithral Hall or someplace related to the books....Remind him that as a elf, he know only that which he has learned or read about and nothing more.   Using a real life example, being born in the USA of asian ancestry doesn't mean that you have an intutive sense of where China is and what is there.  You learn of your ancestoral homeland by being taught it by your parents or school or reading about it from a book.So, unless his parents were from Evereska or he spent time researching it from knowledgable sources, he isn't likely to know about it.Before cars, trains, and planes and mass media and the internet, the average rural person knew his village and the next village over and nothing more of anything beyond 50 miles of their place of birth - except as stories or rumors.Put in FR, that means the average citizen of the Silverymoon may have heard of Waterdeep and out of those of have heard of Waterdeep, maybe 1 out of 10 could point in out on a map or know something more than it a distant city.The elves are generally secretive of Evereska, so it location is not going to be even uncommon knowledge (like Waterdeep), even to those native to the region.  And to those not native to the region, information or the location of Evereska may border on on myth and rumor without any underlying truth, assuming they even heard of it at all.So, explain to the player that the medieval knowledge base for an averge person in the FR means that the average person from Silverymoon may never have heard of Cormyr or the Dalelands....much less Evereska from tight lipped elves.If he fails to see the logic of this, ask him what part of 'NO' doesn't he understand.</blockquote>

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