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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolv0rine" data-source="post: 3573074" data-attributes="member: 9045">Why do you have this odd idea that living in smaller sections of land must mean that they are “barely hanging on to survival” or are “on the decline” or “losing”?  Humans are the expansionists par excellence of the races (with Orcs possibly being a runner up), not Elves.  Elves chose specific types of places where they chose to live.  The world is not covered with these places.  If Elves chose to live in the forests, and the world is not covered in forest, then they are going to be living in a smaller percentage of the lands than Humans in pretty much any event.For my part, the concept of elves “playing human” or not is kind of pointless.  While certain sub-races are more like humans than others in my world, there is a reason for it.  Elves were originally “angels” basically.  Immortal servants of the gods who lived in the heavenly realms.  At some point a sub-set of the elves started to gather worshippers and convinced the others to do the same.  For this sin they were cast out of the heavenly realms into the mortal realm and stripped of their immortality.  They were given the longest lifespan of any mortal race to remind them of what they had lost (immortality).  While the elves initially had more knowledge of magic and other such things from their time spent as the servants of the gods (and this was what they had to share with those who became their allies in that early time in return for help in learning how to survive as a mortal race), over time this knowledge went from being “The mysterious wisdom of the elves” to being fairly common knowledge among the races.  Elves in general aren’t so very different from humans (the Wood Elves most of all, as they associate with Humans most closely) because they’ve spent dozens of generations in contact, alliance, trade, and communication with humans.And that’s Elves in My world.  Elves don’t “play human”, they’re elves.  They don’t have to be playing anything to know how to wage war or study hard or forge metals or whatnot.As for how they survive in their chosen climate and terrain, that varies depending on the climate or terrain.</blockquote>

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