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<blockquote data-quote="Longspeak" data-source="post: 8800753" data-attributes="member: 7019284"><p>This has come up a lot in my current game. The relatively young elf who is already starting to have her heart harden... beginning to see why her people are such isolationist jerks. Barely 120, she's seen so many friends pass. She's met her first love... a boy of 16 when she first met him, now a grandfather in his 60s while she looks the same. She's watched people come and go and each loss brings new pain, sometimes forgetting would be a relief... and her own people barely consider her an adult! </p><p></p><p>It's even been theorized in discussions during play, that this is WHY her people are so isolationist. Perhaps elves carry no greater capacity for grief and loss than humans, and they pull away from the younger races to spare themselves pain?</p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, another crew has an elf who was raised by humans after his clan went missing. By the time he's ready to leave and start his life on the road, the man who took him in is long dead along with most of the community, and it's the children and grandchildren of those first guardians who see him off when it's time to go...</p><p></p><p>And on another, a young human PC of about 25 falls in love with and marries a 500 year old Elven woman. Somehow staving off this growing sense of loss (she learned to embrace the loves and accept the losses; it actually came up in conversation), she's lived a life he can't even conceive of. She took longer than his lifespan just to journey across the world to find herself in the same city as him. Her own half elven son was born, lived, and died before her husband was even born.</p><p></p><p>Another PC asks the Drow mistress of the thieves guild why she seems familiar... He's 38... she changed his diapers as a babe. She carried on a relationship of several years with his parents, first business, then friendship, then lovers, then a growing distance and separation, but she's always looked out for them. Her own son, half-drow, may or may not be his half-brother... I think he might be afraid to ask...</p><p></p><p></p><p>These things never came up in games when I was younger.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Longspeak, post: 8800753, member: 7019284"] This has come up a lot in my current game. The relatively young elf who is already starting to have her heart harden... beginning to see why her people are such isolationist jerks. Barely 120, she's seen so many friends pass. She's met her first love... a boy of 16 when she first met him, now a grandfather in his 60s while she looks the same. She's watched people come and go and each loss brings new pain, sometimes forgetting would be a relief... and her own people barely consider her an adult! It's even been theorized in discussions during play, that this is WHY her people are so isolationist. Perhaps elves carry no greater capacity for grief and loss than humans, and they pull away from the younger races to spare themselves pain? Meanwhile, another crew has an elf who was raised by humans after his clan went missing. By the time he's ready to leave and start his life on the road, the man who took him in is long dead along with most of the community, and it's the children and grandchildren of those first guardians who see him off when it's time to go... And on another, a young human PC of about 25 falls in love with and marries a 500 year old Elven woman. Somehow staving off this growing sense of loss (she learned to embrace the loves and accept the losses; it actually came up in conversation), she's lived a life he can't even conceive of. She took longer than his lifespan just to journey across the world to find herself in the same city as him. Her own half elven son was born, lived, and died before her husband was even born. Another PC asks the Drow mistress of the thieves guild why she seems familiar... He's 38... she changed his diapers as a babe. She carried on a relationship of several years with his parents, first business, then friendship, then lovers, then a growing distance and separation, but she's always looked out for them. Her own son, half-drow, may or may not be his half-brother... I think he might be afraid to ask... These things never came up in games when I was younger. [/QUOTE]
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