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<blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 3582672" data-attributes="member: 2020">As you can now see, since I have finally completed writing out the story, my elves were not doomed.&nbsp; Their existence today in my setting is proof of their capacity to endure.&nbsp; I put the story down as a way of showing how I think, how my conception of elves required a backstory to satisfy the How and especially the *Why*, and thus how Things As They Are came to be so.&nbsp; Someone pointed out elves do not live in a vacuum, and a discussion of the greater picture was needed to accurately describe the elven condition.&nbsp; I have attempted to begin this discussion, by setting down the backstory given above.&nbsp; -&nbsp; Did you know the elves consider they failed?&nbsp; They wish they could have found a different way, a better way, than the madness they so willingly embraced?&nbsp; Every time the lingering taint afflicts them, and they stop to consider this (they don't always immediately stop to think about it ...) they wish anew a better way had been found.&nbsp; In no way do they consider the answer they chose, the madness, elvish.&nbsp; In fact, they consider it was the antithesis of all that is elvish.&nbsp; The fact the Seldarine *still* do not respond to their prayers, may well prove this is quite so.&nbsp; Then again, maybe it proves nothing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Edena_of_Neith, post: 3582672, member: 2020"] As you can now see, since I have finally completed writing out the story, my elves were not doomed. Their existence today in my setting is proof of their capacity to endure. I put the story down as a way of showing how I think, how my conception of elves required a backstory to satisfy the How and especially the *Why*, and thus how Things As They Are came to be so. Someone pointed out elves do not live in a vacuum, and a discussion of the greater picture was needed to accurately describe the elven condition. I have attempted to begin this discussion, by setting down the backstory given above. - Did you know the elves consider they failed? They wish they could have found a different way, a better way, than the madness they so willingly embraced? Every time the lingering taint afflicts them, and they stop to consider this (they don't always immediately stop to think about it ...) they wish anew a better way had been found. In no way do they consider the answer they chose, the madness, elvish. In fact, they consider it was the antithesis of all that is elvish. The fact the Seldarine *still* do not respond to their prayers, may well prove this is quite so. Then again, maybe it proves nothing. [/QUOTE]

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