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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 3589872" data-attributes="member: 2020">I tried to keep the elves - even the Elves of Haldendreeva - distinct from the Faerie in this respect by defining as follows:  - A group of elves could live in a Mordenkainen's Mansion cast on a tree.  - A dryad lives in a tree, and the *entire tree* is considered a Mordenkainen's Mansion (and then some, by about a factor of 10 to 100) for her and those she has charmed or invited in, only.  Adventurers trying to 'force' their way into a dryad's personal retreat, will find only the mundane interior of a tree, not an extradimensional space.  In that way, I tried to distinguish elves from Faerie.  In old Delrune, the elves did not have access to Mordenkainen's Magnificent Mansion.  The elves built cities of crystal, somehow growing it magically right out of the earth and into towering buildings, open in many places to the surrounding trees and open air.  The elves also exported a large number of finished crystal items:  crystalware (trenchers, spoons, knives, forks), crystalline plates, crystalline furniture (not fragile), crystalline lighting pieces, usually with lights of multcolored hues included, crystalline plows with metal parts (the elves could not make the crystalline rock sharp enough to use as a knife or cutting tool), other crystalline items, and they would contract out to build (or grow) crystalline structures or large items elsewhere.  Of course, the elves exported other items, but crystalline stone was one of the big exports, and what Delrune was most famous for.  The love of architecture, of building, of creating fantastic pieces of art and craftsmanship, of statues and monuments, was never lost.  It remains in the Elves of Haldendreeva today.  The elves of Delrune were able to create magical stepping stone roads with their crystals.  They placed them at long intervals, cast dimension door on them, and then cast a secret second spell on them (it happened to be blink), and the result was permanent.  One walked normally, stepping from crystalline stone to crystalline stone.  Each 'step' whisked you 50 feet through the forest.  Once you grew accustomed to the disorientating effects, you found you could walk vast distances in a hurry, typically from one Delrunian city to another.  Horses and wagons had to take more mundane paths, which the elves very reluctantly built through the forests.</blockquote>

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