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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Someone" data-source="post: 1040243" data-attributes="member: 5656">Things are supposed to work this way: There´s a lot of islands, ranging from just a stone that surfaces over the waves 6 hours a day to small continents. Each one is separated by the Infinite Sea, a bottomless ocean where charts and compasses don´t quite work, and sailing is more an art than a science. Mechanically they are treated like demiplanes, and the sea like a transitive plane (you have to use Plane Shift to reach another island) That means that if you sail enough and survive the sea monsters, you are likely to arrive to a land where no man has been before. More often that not, those lands are filled with gold and proportionately dangerous creatures, or civilizations never heard of where the strangest creatures -like elves or dwarves- live. Or legendary places like the island of golden statues, the clockwork island, the Roc´s nest, or the pits of Hell. However, arriving twice to the same land is difficult. However, each time a ship finds his way from a place to another, the easier it becomes to repeat the travel, creating a safe route. That means, coming back to the question, that yes, there are elven nations, and probably it´s needed a long an dangerous travel to reach it.[That raises the question of how is that everyone speaks common. Thousands of years ago, Angels descended, carrying a holy book that spoke about the One God, each wrote in the same language. Almost every civilized land follows that religion, a monotheism without clerics. Of course, there are clergy, but they are not granted any special power; apart from the presence of the books, existence of angels, etc, there´s no other hard evidence of God´s existence. Theologians mumble something about free will when they are asked for that.]As I said previously, go ahead then.</blockquote>

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