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<blockquote data-quote="Emerikol" data-source="post: 8271541" data-attributes="member: 6698278">In another campaign, I had the elves basically worship a spirit like force prevalent in nature and represented specifically by giant trees.&nbsp; They revered these trees and would go to great lengths to protect them.&nbsp; They were present during the ages when the gods warred for control and thus do not believe they are gods at all but just very powerful beings.&nbsp;&nbsp; So Elves are like atheists except they believe nature itself is worth venerating.&nbsp; I also played these Elves as a matriarchal society with two castes.&nbsp; The nobles and the commoners.&nbsp; Elves in general had a low birthrate but nobles had an extremely low birthrate.&nbsp; The nobles were immortal and the commoners were just long lived by human standards.&nbsp; So elves in general did not like involving themselves in things that might get them killed as they treasured life.&nbsp;&nbsp; The death of an elf was considered an infinitely bad outcome.Only commoners and male nobles could practice magic but noble women could not.&nbsp; All of the noble women were psionic and bonded with their men at marriage.&nbsp; The bond was permanent until death.&nbsp; Upon bonding the males were subservient to the females and tended to obey them in all decision making.&nbsp;&nbsp; The females were the only ones allowed to rule.&nbsp; They were divided up into houses eached ruled by a supreme Lady of House X.&nbsp;&nbsp; These leaders of the houses would meet every twenty one years to elect a queen.&nbsp; If a noble woman bonded with a commoner male, it was considered a travesty (as the noble blood maintained the psionic lineage) and the woman was typically exiled and shunned.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Emerikol, post: 8271541, member: 6698278"] In another campaign, I had the elves basically worship a spirit like force prevalent in nature and represented specifically by giant trees. They revered these trees and would go to great lengths to protect them. They were present during the ages when the gods warred for control and thus do not believe they are gods at all but just very powerful beings. So Elves are like atheists except they believe nature itself is worth venerating. I also played these Elves as a matriarchal society with two castes. The nobles and the commoners. Elves in general had a low birthrate but nobles had an extremely low birthrate. The nobles were immortal and the commoners were just long lived by human standards. So elves in general did not like involving themselves in things that might get them killed as they treasured life. The death of an elf was considered an infinitely bad outcome. Only commoners and male nobles could practice magic but noble women could not. All of the noble women were psionic and bonded with their men at marriage. The bond was permanent until death. Upon bonding the males were subservient to the females and tended to obey them in all decision making. The females were the only ones allowed to rule. They were divided up into houses eached ruled by a supreme Lady of House X. These leaders of the houses would meet every twenty one years to elect a queen. If a noble woman bonded with a commoner male, it was considered a travesty (as the noble blood maintained the psionic lineage) and the woman was typically exiled and shunned. [/QUOTE]

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