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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 9846846" data-attributes="member: 58172">As I said, I am quoting 5e 2024. The text says what I said it says, page 189. The Elves "live for around 750 years", in contrast that "most species live for about 80 years" (page 177). Just like we can expect individual Humans to live to be 110 and more (and in D&D much more), we can expect elven individuals to be 1100, and much more. At these ages, epic levels are a game changer.If the Forgotten Realms lore fan sites are correct, Tasha is a Human who lived for centuries, and then became truly immortal by becoming an archfey. But the point is, individuals are exceptions, especially when it comes to something like lifespan estimations. Elves typically live many centuries (before dying of various causes), and there are individuals that live many millennia and are still as youthful as 20. Elves are not mortals. Even if their body is killed, their trancing soul remains connecting to past and future bodies. They sustain their bodies magically, perhaps a residual of their origins of shapeshifting at will. (Elves being shapeshifters comes from reallife folkbeliefs.) The species involves more than biology. They are magic itself and continue to transmit their magical Fey heritage. The Fey ancestral magic remains as strong as strong as ever, while a Material Plane body overlaps it. I view the Humanoid "soul" as mystically entangling every aspect of the multiverse. Hence, Humanoids can obviate wards that target any particular plane.That Elves have a Humanoid soul seems notable. Perhaps when taking a Human form the soul came with it. And now being trapped as a soul is in some ways part of their curse: Human souls come with free will and ethical consequences. The trance trait is a D&Dism (not from reallife folkbeliefs), but I dont hate it. It is a gaming way to signify the persistence of their otherworldly nonmaterial nonhuman magical nature despite their choice to adopt a Human shape.</blockquote>

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