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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 9847643" data-attributes="member: 6779196"><p>Frieren and Dragon Age are the two biggest influences on me for how I like to depict elves when I DM. I don’t tend to like what multi-centenarian characters tend to do to worldbuilding, so I fiddle with my PC races’ lifespans to put them all in the range of like 80-150 years. Except elves, who I have be truly ageless, but I stole the concept of Uthenera from Dragon Age, so your elf character’s age reflects the time since they last woke up rather than the time since their birth. But since other races lifespans cap out at around 150 at the long end, elves who spend time around non-elves tend to become pretty depressed after that amount of time due to the deaths of their non-elf friends, and will usually go into a long trance shortly thereafter. But the elves who live only among other elves will often stay active for much longer periods. Frieren is a great example then of a PC who had previously only lived among other elves, and is going through her first experience of becoming close with non-elf people.</p></blockquote><p></p>