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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aldarc" data-source="post: 8375536" data-attributes="member: 5142">I like how this is explored in Eberron. Elves may live longer than humans, but that's precisely why they fear death. Each elf represents a tremendous amount of culminated knowledge and experience that is lost upon death, which is why the prevailing elven cultures of Eberron are so dedicated to preserving the lives of their dead however they can: e.g., undeath, undying, ancestral reembodiment, etc. Likewise, from what I vaguely recall, the Aereni elves of Eberron kinda creep humans out, not only because of the whole death thing, but also because incest, with a number of marriages within families. But from the perspective of elves, it's not a big deal because they don't share the same biological problems and issues resulting from incest that humans do. I think that's a pretty interesting way to accentuate the "not human" aspect of non-humans.</blockquote>