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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 3571767" data-attributes="member: 2020">Let me answer that, within the context of the game and novels based on the game.  One of the races (the gnomes?) within the setting could undergo the industrial revolution, gain immense insights into science, and build superweapons such as missiles, tanks, fighter aircraft, high explosives, assorted firearms, and even nuclear weapons.  Do you believe it will be the elves who first develop such weapons?  Or is it more likely humans, dwarves, gnomes, or even kobolds are more likely to have these weapons first?  Within the conception of the various races, do you believe elves would be the first to industrialize and produce modern weapons?  And even if the elves were the first to develop such weapons, would this grant them supremacy, or would it destroy them?  What evidence we have indicates it would destroy them.  Elves *had* a superweapon in historical Faerun:  High Magic.  And they used this superweapon on each other, to produce atrocities like the High Moor, the obliteration of cities, the devastation of entire regions, and the loss of vast forests.  Has the elven attitude that produced this destruction changed, since that time?  Consider the treatment of Arilyn Moonflower.  Consider the murder of the niece of Coronal Eltargrim.  The evidence would suggest the attitude has not changed.  I believe elves would be among the last to obtain such modern weapons.  And if they did anyways, they would destroy each other with them.  Assuming the other races did not destroy them first.  Under no circumstances can I see the elves obtaining supremacy through the gain of modern weaponry.  The Terran nations you cite, are supreme due to their weaponry.  Their birth rate is irrelevant to that supremacy, in my opinion.</blockquote>

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