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Message: <blockquote data-quote="0bsolete" data-source="post: 3869032" data-attributes="member: 56795">My ingame explanation for this is fairly basic. Humans accept things as they are without questioning. A human is born in a town where everybody worships Pelor? He's going to almost certainly end up worshiping Pelor to a certain degree. A human finds out that if he smelts ores in method X they are better than method Y. The reason why doesn't matter, it just is and thats useful. Elves though, are philosophically minded. They grow up with parents who worship Corellon Larethian and they question every aspect of it and see if they personally want that. They notice that smelting method X is more effective than Y and so they write it down and study and contemplate why its more effective. A couple years spent and haven't figured it out? Thats fine, you have all the time in the world but you'll figure it out one day. Comparing this to wizards though. A human wizard figures out that if he does X,Y and Z he gets a fireball. Thats wonderful and useful, perfect. Next spell. An elven wizard figures out that if he does X,Y and Z he gets a fireball, but what if he tweaks it and does R on top of that? Wow, the fireball that is more blusish. But you know, purple is a far better color, so lets spend four months finding out a way to make the fireball purple.Basically, human wizards see a tool. They use that tool, bend it to their will and make it their own to do what they want as quickly as they can but an elf sees an artform and something wtih untold possibilities and they want to explore every single aspect of that artform. For this reason, all my elven NPC's have a handful of spellbooks, one is for war, another for illusion, another is for cooking and household cores, yet another is just random experiments. You walk into a human wizards tower  and everything has a purpose, but in an elfs you might have a teleporter or a reverse gravity spell just because its kinda fun. They spend centuries perfecting an art, humans spend decades using a tool.</blockquote>

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