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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shallown" data-source="post: 1862291" data-attributes="member: 1368">Last Campaign I ran i had a reason based on the camaign for the Trance. Basically the races had thrown off the yoke of their demon/dviel slave masters and sealed most of them behind a gate that kept them in their home planes. Each race took on a burden that allowed this to remain stable. The elves would sleep once a year for two days and during thattime each elf would fight back the demons and strengthen the gate using dreams to transport them to the demons/devils planes. This experience would on occasion leave scars/kill elves etc. But for the most part the elves left behind the trauma of these war wounds behind in their dreams. So the elves learned not to dream but to instead gain the benefits of dreaming through the reverie. Also their are some other facets such as elves though always long lived compared to humans didn't always live as long as they do now. They started at living twice as long and the lengthening of thier lives is thought to be part of the dream world they live in once a year. They are not sure why. It made for some interesting reasons why elves are the way they are. For one they keep themselves seperate for the reason you don't want people to know your entire race falls asleep for two days and is defenseless. It also explains why the bond with animals as they usedand still use them as guardians while they sleep. The world at large knew this as a religious holiday but not how exposed/vulnerable the elves are. I basically used the previous enslavement to hard wire in certain fantasy assumptions of races. Dwarves have their own reason to be dwarf like based on this as well as halflings etc. The two elves at the time of the soulless night (as the elves called it) sealed themselves off from the party during that time of the year not telling them why and readied themselves to do their otherworldly battle and of course it didn't happen which was a signal that the count down to the gate reopening had begun, of course I also had them in the underdark so they weren't sure if that had anything to do with it or not. Scared them pretty badly. Later</blockquote>

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