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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wildstarsreach" data-source="post: 3575385" data-attributes="member: 43141">I don't think there truely has been a point how elves exist.  They are a dying race.  Look, they have a minus to Con.  They are not as Hardy.  However, they are an ancient race that has risen to heights that humanity has yet to reach and then they have fallen into decadence.  As a race, they tend to be more cooperative to helping each other.  Humans want to prosper but they usually only think of their family.  Elves have learned through many wars that they as a community must band together more than human settlements are willing to.  Elven communities number in the few dozens to hundreds.  Whereas humans range in settlements tin much greater numbers.  Elven leaders are much less to abuse for personal power so if they had a fiefdom system, the taxes are taken only for what they need to have a cohesive community.  Not to make some lord powerful and rich.  If you look at Galdrial or Elrond communities, they may have maybe a couple thousand.  They look at building quality over quantity.  Things last unlike what human make.  They also may be more at peace with their surroundings.  They may have fruit  and nuts crops as opposed to grains such as wheats and rices.  Their livestock may be a managed wild crops that are hunted as opposed to raising for slaughter.  Hence the more marshall than humans.  This marshall style is used to protect themselves.  Since they have a long history of wars with such creatures as Orcs, this marshall system has taught them with regards to them to shoot first and question later.  They are like Israel with respect to their enemies around them.  They take out much more of the enemies than they lose.  They elves are generally better armed, they weapon making is more efficient but takes longer.  There are many ways that the elves would continue to linger on using these precepts.  The elves that are adventurers are the younger ones that have that diminishing spark of wonderlust.My 2 cents</blockquote>

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