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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gez" data-source="post: 1523678" data-attributes="member: 1328">Here are two different ways to explain this slow maturity.<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">It's rubbish. The elves are lying in order to look mys-teeer-ious (wiggle fingers). They always pretend to be older than they are, but a 100-year old elf is in fact 20-year old.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The elves are wild, primal creatures. While they physically mature as fast as humans do, they are like animals for a long time, not considered truely sentient by their elders. During their prolonged adolescence, they live in the present, enjoying themselves, indulging in whatever they want, oblivious to consequences. They have poor memories, and usually totally forgot what happened on the eve. They can do useful stuff, like hunting, for example; but they are hopeless for anything serious, or even for conversing. Still, the other elves slowly teach them to remember, to talk, to think. The elven trance is a key part of this teaching, for it's during their dreams that the elves' memory fade. By using this slowly-acquired technique to avoid sleeping, they can strengthen their memories instead of losing them. After dozen of sleepless years of trances, the young elf finally become sentient and focused enough to become a member of a civilised species. He'll learn other things he needs -- like the techniques to resist to sleep spells, that would be disastrous for them, or enchantment spells, to which they were so often exposed during their wild years. He learns to use sword and bow. He learns to master his language, which is deliberately complicated in order to force the mind to keep up using subtleties and intricated process. Still, despite all this rigorous training and shaping, the elven mind stay very chaotic. An elf is considered fully adult when he acquired the discipline necessary to police himself up, even without the contact of civilisation.</li> </ol>You might want to read more accurate sources, because that's impressively false.</blockquote>

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