D&D General what are the setting functions of elves?

[Mind of tempest]

Researchers, lorekeepers, teachers, scientists, explorers by proxy of going new places to investigate them.

I m meaning more on the cultural scale?

 

[CreamCloud0]

I m meaning more on the cultural scale?

Cultural scale?

 

[bedir than]

I am looking for the description of the slot elves fit in the niche in settings for them this has nothing to do with plot.

But, people have told you that there many niches, often co-occupied.

No race offers a single niche

 

[Hriston]

The speedy and/or smart guy

 

[Tonguez]

Your standard elf niche is that IMO they’re The Ones Who Know Things, or know how to go about finding out, prophecies, magical knowledge, medicine, translating languages, planetary alignments, history, identifying objects, nature, generally whatever you need to know, the elves will typically be the ones with an answer

Really? I’m more inclined to give that knowledge to Gnomes or humans really, elves have memory of past events but I’ve not really imagined them as researcher types

 

[CreamCloud0]

Really? I’m more inclined to give that knowledge to Gnomes or humans really, elves have memory of past events but I’ve not really imagined them as researcher types

Okay fair, maybe not so much researchers but definitely collectors of knowledge, retaining and remembering things that have passed and been long forgotten by the other races.

 

[Yaarel]

The elves research magic, including epic magic, floating cities, powerful items, and so on.

Comparing tech, elves are more about building high energy particle colliders, but they craft gadgets too.

 

[Mind of tempest]

Cultural scale?

big scale not individuals but the group?

But, people have told you that there many niches, often co-occupied.

No race offers a single niche

okay, then can you define the niches then?

The speedy and/or smart guy

zoom in on the smart guy and elaborate on it?

Really? I’m more inclined to give that knowledge to Gnomes or humans really, elves have memory of past events but I’ve not really imagined them as researcher types

gnomes lore says they do not care for history at all some do not even have a calendar.