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<blockquote data-quote="Yair" data-source="post: 2175576" data-attributes="member: 10913"><p>The setting I'm running right now has elves but no faerie creatures, but I'm not sure how far away from normal D&D elves are they.</p><p></p><p>The idea is that the elves are really interlopers - they came "from the stars", i.e. from another plane (I never decided which), escaping some horrid doom. I take their favored class very seriously - they were powerful wizards, borne on the backs of chromatic dragons. </p><p>Once they arrived in this world, they eventually fell in love with it and embraced druidism, rebelling against the Spider Queen (the Weaver of Fate) and adopting nature worship. (Their original plane was not "natural" in the least.) The drow remained loyal to their goddess (and became drow due to a magical accident - only drow and high elves in my campaign), but the High Elves became your normal tree-hugging snobs... well, perhaps a <em>little</em> less snobby.</p><p>Of course, the elves still have lots of wizards. And their faith in druidism is actually much less common than humans tend to believe, and far less fanatic. But the Spider Queen is abhorred, as are the necromantic (as if "new slave races! cool!"), evocation ("fire is bad for trees, dude!"), and conjuration ("ooow! unnatural! ugly!") arts of wizardry. Only the drow stay pure and loyal to the Spider Queen, and breed armies of abominations to lead them to their fate to dominate this world, as promised and foretold by the Spider Queen herself upon their exodus...</p><p></p><p>So, not very different, but hopefully a bit useful to ya.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Yair, post: 2175576, member: 10913"] The setting I'm running right now has elves but no faerie creatures, but I'm not sure how far away from normal D&D elves are they. The idea is that the elves are really interlopers - they came "from the stars", i.e. from another plane (I never decided which), escaping some horrid doom. I take their favored class very seriously - they were powerful wizards, borne on the backs of chromatic dragons. Once they arrived in this world, they eventually fell in love with it and embraced druidism, rebelling against the Spider Queen (the Weaver of Fate) and adopting nature worship. (Their original plane was not "natural" in the least.) The drow remained loyal to their goddess (and became drow due to a magical accident - only drow and high elves in my campaign), but the High Elves became your normal tree-hugging snobs... well, perhaps a [I]little[/I] less snobby. Of course, the elves still have lots of wizards. And their faith in druidism is actually much less common than humans tend to believe, and far less fanatic. But the Spider Queen is abhorred, as are the necromantic (as if "new slave races! cool!"), evocation ("fire is bad for trees, dude!"), and conjuration ("ooow! unnatural! ugly!") arts of wizardry. Only the drow stay pure and loyal to the Spider Queen, and breed armies of abominations to lead them to their fate to dominate this world, as promised and foretold by the Spider Queen herself upon their exodus... So, not very different, but hopefully a bit useful to ya. [/QUOTE]
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