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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SethDrebitko" data-source="post: 6084645" data-attributes="member: 89074">I justified it in my setting as the means by which they expanded. In the Elven homelands there is a "Tree of Life" and its offspring trees actually maintain magical bonds to it: like planting the seeds of leylines leading back to that tree. The seeds of the tree are not digestible to birds and so as they migrate the seeds spread to other places. Humans on the other hand swell up their population and then just roll out in all directions. The Elves following their Leyline transportation points end up with a widespread, but non substantial presence; while the Humans have a dense fortified continual growth.As for the OP question: yes and no.If you want strange alien races make them, but don't call them Elves. When it comes to art there is a certain need to provide a baseline appearance and drill that in. This doesn't mean that all Elves have exactly the same ears, it just means that almost all Elves have ears that look this specific way. If you showed all kinds of different ears in art you would have a hard time trying to convey what the average Elf looked like.</blockquote>