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<blockquote data-quote="Gaea Games" data-source="post: 6620916" data-attributes="member: 6795620">Well, if you assume that Elves and fae are immortal or nearly so, it is not time that scares them. It is not action, since they have so much time in which to act. It is not even death, for the realms beyond have touched them and they have touched those realms in turn. Elves weather the world in ways less magical races cannot—but it is that world that frightens them. More specifically, it's the loss of the world they know. When you have lived for a thousand years, especially among less enduring races, what have you seen change? What lives, what songs and tales have you known that have passed into legend, or perhaps into the dust of the forgotten? What has happened to all that you knew and loved when you were young? For that matter, do you still love those things that once gave you such joy and wonder? Or have you grown jaded, embittered by a world that slips ever more through your fingers while you watch the mortal folk burn like candles, bright but brief in their flame?That sort of thing is probably where I would start.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gaea Games, post: 6620916, member: 6795620"] Well, if you assume that Elves and fae are immortal or nearly so, it is not time that scares them. It is not action, since they have so much time in which to act. It is not even death, for the realms beyond have touched them and they have touched those realms in turn. Elves weather the world in ways less magical races cannot—but it is that world that frightens them. More specifically, it's the loss of the world they know. When you have lived for a thousand years, especially among less enduring races, what have you seen change? What lives, what songs and tales have you known that have passed into legend, or perhaps into the dust of the forgotten? What has happened to all that you knew and loved when you were young? For that matter, do you still love those things that once gave you such joy and wonder? Or have you grown jaded, embittered by a world that slips ever more through your fingers while you watch the mortal folk burn like candles, bright but brief in their flame? That sort of thing is probably where I would start. [/QUOTE]

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