Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Rocket your D&D 5E and Level Up: Advanced 5E games into space! Alpha Star Magazine Is Launching... Right Now!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="mhacdebhandia" data-source="post: 2175165" data-attributes="member: 18832">I had an idle thought once about an elven city.The elves within would be known by other races as a colony, of sorts, from a distant land. In truth they would have hailed from either another planet (Spelljammer would be the starting point) or another plane, and would be exiles or refugees. Something like the early British pilgrim settlers in North America, leaving behind a world they couldn't come to terms with.Though not naturally given to living in frigid climes, their city would be carved out of the slopes of a tall and frozen mountain peak. The colony would have chosen to live there out of a sense of spiritual self-flagellation, being determined that their new perfected society would be tempered by struggle and travail. Their religion would have espoused a harsh, puritan philosophy (in keeping with their pilgrim inspirations, I suppose) and commanded of its followers a difficult mixture of separatism and evangelism - remain apart from the world but do whatever is necessary to save it.As you can probably tell, the elves would have been a neutral but slightly antagonistic power in the world. Their inherent inclination towards the study of magic is a good example - they would have mastery of arcane secrets unknown to and coveted by most non-elven mages, but would make great demands of any prospective student, having a monopolist's perspective on such matters. Only those petitioners willing to promote the elven philosophy, serving as a kind of ambassador to their own peoples, would be accepted - and swift retribution would fall on those revealed to have been paying mere lip-service to the tenets of the religion.</blockquote>

Verification