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Message: <blockquote data-quote="painandgreed" data-source="post: 1804755" data-attributes="member: 24969">The elves in my world were created to lead other fey races against those of evil outsiders. They are haughty and proud, not quite realizing, or not caring, that not only are they no longer in charge, but the races they once ruled over are being displaced by humans and humanoids. Tehy are creatures of law and so is their society. Where a human paladin might tolerate a chaotic good person because "at least he's not evil" an elven paladin would tolerate a lawful evil person because 'at least he's not of chaos".Their society, although not too strict, is very ordered and filled with ritual and expected behaviors. ignoring these or even a large accidental breach of such rules could result in being shunned by the community for a time or even being exiled. Hereditary nobles rule not so much by power but because of pressure from the rest of society to do so. Elves who find themselves unable to follow their orders are forced to do the only thing left, which is to declare themselves exiled and voluntarily leave for the unseelie court. Such elves rarely actually ever join the chaotic unseelie cort and instead simply wander in their self imposed exile unless conditions change that allow them to return.Things are different for the other races. Elves believe that the world has an order to it and in that order, elves are at the top. All other races are inferior and meant to obey. This goes back into pre-history when wars were fought with the giants and even dwarves to establish rulership over said races. The condition that other races suffer in their society is near that of slavery with violence so rarley seen between elves, used freely on "those who need to be taught discipline". This is pretty much only for those born into their kingdoms as travellers and such are protected by law and custom, unless of course, said person should violate other laws and customs, some of which can't even be kept track of by elvish lawyers who study such things all their long lives.Although creatures of law, they are untrusted by human society (or dwarvish). mnay years ago in a great war that would determine if elves, human or humanoids would rule the next age, humans elves and dwarves had banded together to defear the army of humanoids including the new race, orcs. Lackign numbers, the elves taught humans magic and the dwarves taught them how to forge iron and together they defeated the humanoids. The elves, seeing that if they did not take these gifts to humans back, would soon be overpowered and overrun by that race, decided to strike and kill all those who they had taught. (Their agreements and promises they had made with the humans technically allowed such actions according to elven law). the dwarves, whose relations had already been strained with the elves for centuries, balked at such a plan and refused to join into it. Because of this, the elven plan failed, the humans escaped and prospered plus they were unable to totally eliminate the humanoids. This legend is known by almost all human children and is a reminder not to trust the elves.</blockquote>

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