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<blockquote data-quote="Tsyr" data-source="post: 358554" data-attributes="member: 354">To be clear, there are five distinct races of elf in Dragonlance. Roughly equated to &quot;dnd standard&quot; elves, you have:High Elf (Qualinesti)Grey Elf (Silvanesti)Wild Elf (Kagonesti)and two different races of sea elf, who's name escapes me.Qualinesti aren't unfriendly, on the whole. They are isolationistic, but they don't really hate the other races. In fact, this really goes for most the elven races in DL... they mostly just want to be left alone. This isn't the same as unfriendly; guests were always treated well enough... hell, look at how they treated the Knights that occupied their territory during the War of Souls... some of the knights got so attached to the race that they were willing to die to defend them, not just because it was their job. Granted, they still tried to drive them out, but while they were there, most of them treated them well enough.The Kagonesti take it further, to the point of rabid xenophobia, but again, they don't hate other races... they just don't wanna interact with them.The Silvanesti are, of all of the races, the most &quot;unfriendly&quot;... frex, during the War of Souls and some time before, they had erected a magical barrier to keep others out. As for Eliteist... Lets be honest... in a very practical sense, elves _ARE_ superior to humans. More agile, quite often portrayed as stronger, almost NEVER portrayed as &quot;frail&quot; despite the DnD stats for them, wise, handsome... long lived, almost always natural magic users... I don't think its elitism so much as they ARE better, and they don't really feel the need for false humility.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tsyr, post: 358554, member: 354"] To be clear, there are five distinct races of elf in Dragonlance. Roughly equated to "dnd standard" elves, you have: High Elf (Qualinesti) Grey Elf (Silvanesti) Wild Elf (Kagonesti) and two different races of sea elf, who's name escapes me. Qualinesti aren't unfriendly, on the whole. They are isolationistic, but they don't really hate the other races. In fact, this really goes for most the elven races in DL... they mostly just want to be left alone. This isn't the same as unfriendly; guests were always treated well enough... hell, look at how they treated the Knights that occupied their territory during the War of Souls... some of the knights got so attached to the race that they were willing to die to defend them, not just because it was their job. Granted, they still tried to drive them out, but while they were there, most of them treated them well enough. The Kagonesti take it further, to the point of rabid xenophobia, but again, they don't hate other races... they just don't wanna interact with them. The Silvanesti are, of all of the races, the most "unfriendly"... frex, during the War of Souls and some time before, they had erected a magical barrier to keep others out. As for Eliteist... Lets be honest... in a very practical sense, elves _ARE_ superior to humans. More agile, quite often portrayed as stronger, almost NEVER portrayed as "frail" despite the DnD stats for them, wise, handsome... long lived, almost always natural magic users... I don't think its elitism so much as they ARE better, and they don't really feel the need for false humility. [/QUOTE]

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