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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Argyle King" data-source="post: 8761385" data-attributes="member: 58416">I have some ideas for the twist that might play into psychology.In Skyrim, it is explained that dragons didn't exist in other games because of being removed from the normal timeline for a while. (There's a bit more to it, but that's enough for the purposes of this thread.)You've also mentioned elves and Vulcans. That could give a general look which is like what D&D sometimes calls Grey Elves. The older and wiser (but a bit snobby) human-like race is a common trope.Maybe you could combine pieces from both ideas. At some point in the past, a group of [elves?] existed who were (at that time) technologically, culturally, and magically superior to most other beings around them. While dabbling in [some magical experiment], they accidentally placed themselves into a demi-plane of temporal stasis. [Number-of-years] ago, the effects of the mishap finally wore off, and their settlement was plopped back into the world. They're now in a world which has more-or-less caught up to where they were, albeit in different ways. In some cases, they've encountered other races (such as humans) who seem to have found some of their left-behind knowledge but have used it in ways they feel is a waste.They're still very intelligent and know a lot of things, but are also very adamant that their ways of doing things are more correct than how the other races are doing things -often being guilty of elf-splaining and going off on tangents about how they remember back when humans were barely more than animals. ...and that the original "correct" way of doing xyz is how the [older race] still does it. They might also be socially awkward in that they're still accustomed to traditions, slang, and clothing styles from untold generations ago. Trying to balance their own perceived intellectual superiority against being several generations out of date (and needing to catch up) could be a big part of who they now are in your world. Maybe they still do have a lot of old knowledge which was lost to the world. In contrast, the younger races have knowledge about the contemporary world. Both are missing a large chunk of what happened in-between, so that provides a reason for them to need to learn from (and interacts with) the younger races, while they still wear the mask of superiority and lord stories of their former greatness over others.</blockquote>

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