What are the Elves like in your setting?

Belligerent and numerous.

>>48381221
Dark Elves: not!dunmer
High Elves: not!altmer
Snow Elves: THROUGH THE GATES OF HELL, AS WE MAKE OUR WAY TO HEAVEN, THROUGH THE NAZI LIIINES!

They come in three flavors; Jewish tricks, howling warmongers, and imperialist huntsmen.

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Gay

They are all gay, every single one

Gay

>>48381221
Like bacon wrapped chicken with cheese and jalapeño stuffed inside.

>>48381221
first of all, that guy is significantly more pretty than the woman

to answer your question:

the Elves are the premier power in the Old World at the time of the human exodus, having the entire western side of the continent in their sphere of power. they as a general rule of thumb keep everything on the west side of the Winter River, while the other races, dwarves that got BTFO by goblins and now live in a giant forest, Roving clans of Minotaur in the fertile grasslands, Goblins who rule the mountains after taking it form the dwarves, and the crazy things that live in the previously occupied human lands, take what they can in the east

>>48381221
Filthy cocky worthless slum bums.
Good for nothing but gay sex.

>>48381266
>Implying elves are not all just the same but different color schemes.

My elves tend to be cunts who get killed by the players. Even when I don't want them to. Though when don't i want a dead elf?

Didn't include them in my setting.

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>>48381221
>Taller than the average human. (Look leaner but that's just because they don't 'naturally' have bulk to fill out this height)

>Ears range from 3 to 6 inches long and stick right out the sides and the last third to all of it is covered in a fine, velvety coat of fur matching their hair color (always ending in white tips though). Ears also can be wiggled around consciously over a pretty wide range of motion.

>They have antlers which grow up to a foot and a half from their head. How you wear them will depend on which sub culture/tribe you hail from, social standing, and a list of other things. (Various nobles will use a mix of magic and metal wires to guide their antler growth like a bonsai tree and decorate them whereas most soldiers will with clip them entirely or keep them to short, sharp points)

>Skin hues tend to range around browns and golds, sometimes going into more human-like tones.

>They have four long fingers (explicitly because their gods thought 'fingers are hard and pinkies are useless anyway') and three long toes (the third toe is from their heel) they can pick things up/grab things with them

>They USED to look like upright, winged, elk, wolf things made of plants and wood. Their gods reshaped them to honor humanity for sharing their home and world with them.

picture pretty much unrelated.

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Catlike, capricious, and cruel.

Their long lives, extended even further by drugs and magic, lead to ever-increasing decadence as they fight a losing battle against boredom.

They once ruled a thriving empire but it shrank steadily inwards as their rulers' perversity took precedence over maintaining their power.

They rarely leave their territory and, when they do, it's to raid the surrounding human kingdoms for new slaves and/or to thin their own numbers.

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>>48381758
I see what you're doing.

Natives of magic-infused areas around the world. Typically drunk. Historically fighting each other. Often leave their homelands in hopes of getting away from the other elves fighting each other. Now have a not entirely undeserved reputation for beating their wives, which can be a big problem when they marry a member of another race because they lack the miraculous healing abilities of elves.

>>48381221
They're a bunch of creative types that are narcissistic enough to share their creations, but unwilling to look at the work posted by others.

I've based them off the posters in this thread.

>>48381221
There's four nations of them. We've got:
- gypsy elves who fight like Romans,
- redneck elves who alternate between fighting like Romans and berserkers,
- ridiculously sugarcoated high elves who don't have to fight because they're sheltered
- and a second nation of redneck elves because the two nations are right next to each other.
Other than that I ripped them straight out of Dwarf Fortress. My players like it.

aggravatingly perfect, homosexuals derived from a derivative of some bastardized representation loosely based on Tolkien's elves from some guy who only read LOTR and didn't really understand it.

A surrogate for all the pretty, popular, well-adjusted kids in high school who scorned me for my poor hygiene and anti-social ways.

Non-troll answers:
-savage, vengeful, high on hallucinogenic blue paint, but they make good food.
-physical manifestations of man's heritage and dreams.
-Spess Vikings

>>48381818
clever, if too post-modern for my taste.

>>48381758
I will say I like this though, but does this mean elves are not the sort of beings you'd see in any sort of hero role?

>>48381817
and this. The magical healing is interesting. But are they just drawn to the magic infused areas, or were they other races a long time ago and changed?

>>48381417
these elves sound delicious. And I'm not even a dragon.

>>48381818
Oi, I'm reading them, but usually I just lurk. I don't have any problems with these elves, so I don't reply.

>>48381221
Long-lived militaristic huntsmen with a thirst for knowledge.

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>>48381221
Ghosts who have had most of their identity scoured away by time. Though that's most of the human-like races.

>>48381221
Gifted by all three gods, which makes them powerful but insane.

Growth blessing them fast breeding, and healing, Preservation blessing them able to live forever, and Destruction blessing made them quick to anger and act violently.
The blessing of Destruction is particularly strong when interacting with other elves, as their violent nature sparks off each other.

Because of this, while they can live forever, the median age is for elves to die is in the mid twenties. Most common cause of death being other elves.

Some elves to seperate themselves from the blessing of Destruction, but like all powerful godworkings the act was dangerous and costly.
The Shriven suffer forms of madness all their own, and rarely live past 50. The most common causes of death being suicide and euthanasia.

>>48381865
>elves that share much of what they have with other cultures, but prefer not to interface directly with them, electing instead to silently observe
this sounds good too

>>48381857
>I will say I like this though, but does this mean elves are not the sort of beings you'd see in any sort of hero role?

'Hero' and 'villain' are relative terms. The elves act according to their nature, which just so happens to be inhuman.

Elves have heroes that embody their values, but those heroes would be villains to the humans that they kidnap and kill.

Translation: it would take a Drizztian defection from decadence to get a good-guy elf in my setting.

Their civilization has stagnated, but it's stable -- why should they change?

>>48381857
They were made by the gods(actually just one particular god who was in charge of making all the races) and put in the magic lands. Whether the elves were made to occupy these already existing areas or if the elves and the lands were shaped that way together is a highly debated subject among religious scholars. The healing is a sort of magical evolutionary adaptation to them consistently fighting and trying to kill each other.

I like viewing elves like colonial age Brits. Posh, self assured and absolute conquerers

>>48381796
This is Slaaneshian levels of fucked up.

Catching them as slaves. My old DnD setting used that idea where you grafted elf skin onto yourself to gain their immortality. It didn't work but it was a great excuse to slaughter dozens if elves. Our favorites were the pure virgin females, ripping away their sweet innocent flesh and brutally ending long lives full of joy and love. It fulfilled me in a way no other role-playing ever has. We tried using the torture rules in DnD after a while but we often ended up getting so deep into the narrative that we completely forgot about them.

>>48381221

Mostly dead. A few individuals exist as prized slaves.

>>48382040
Fuck off, Craig.

>Immortal
>Decadent as fuck
>Act out their "superiority" via getting other races to worship them or bend others to slavery
>Have a special fucking hatred for those who have access to magic
>Cant procreate but live a decadent life as those on the top of their part of the world
>Main religion centers around the worship of their goddess mother and her slumbering black dragon of a son.
>Capital city is literally built around a sleeping dragon the size of mount Everest.

Well /tg/ how you guys think they are?

Physically more akin to folkloric goblins or Christmas elves than Tolkien elves: 3 feet tall with large ears, noses, and eyes, and clawed hands and feet to help them dig and climb.

>>48381796
I recognize the artist from when he worked on Sandman I think.

Most elves are immigrants from an ancient schism that allowed the Faewilds to enter into the Material world. Basically they colonized an inhosipitible part of the forests that was isolated due to being cut off by water. When humans finally explored it they found two varieties of elves. Wild elves, more in tune with their Fae ancestry, and the civilized elves who had begun to emulate their world within the Faewild as best as possible. However they've begun to intermingle with humans recently, and with the inception of a united city, begun to share with them the wonders of their creations.

Their entry into the world was precipitated by the Four Fulcrums, which also make up their gods, and whom have two forms, as Elements (to create the world) and as Inevitable (which run the world). Leviathan is Time, and so on.

Orcs and Drow also trace their lineage to their ancestors and the rulers of Elven Culture known as Sylvans, also referred to as "Ascended Elves" for they become one with the world around them.

>>48381758
I really like this, my corrupted by magic Drow might just have a bit more flavor from you anon, thanks, considering I was thinking of running the Underdark soon.

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I like my elves just to preferably be good or decent people who can get along with humans and other people.

Pic related.

>>48381221

Non existent, along with all the other nothuman but human fantasy races

>>48381221
I like my elves with a side of Lovecraftian horror.
>Long ago an ancient and decedent empire sought to curb its decay through supernatural means.
>The court sorcerers summoned, and pacted with a powerful demon lord of the outer dark.
>A gate was opened and demon spirits flooded into the city.
>The creatures merged with the hapless citizens creating a nigh immortal race of demon hybrids.
>These Eldar look mostly human at first, if they can hide their solid black eyes and white hair.
>Over time they become more pale, and etheral, until they fade away into a demon spirit, ready to start the cycle anew.
>The Eldar are cyptic, and sinister folk. They will raid neighbouring human kingdoms. The best and the brightest will be turned over to the sorcerer priests for comversion. The rest enslaved, and dominated through alchemical means.

>>48382214
Isn't that pretty similar to the supposed background of Mind Flayers?

>>48381796
Good thing Elric breaks all of that.

>>48382106
>I really like this, my corrupted by magic Drow might just have a bit more flavor from you anon, thanks, considering I was thinking of running the Underdark soon.

I'm flattered that you like them! My players /loathe/ the elves, as they've only just barely survived an attack from a raiding party.

They're currently planning to infiltrate elvish territitory to rescue a friendly NPC. They don't know that she's already been served up as an entrée.

>>48382271
Well that's a little dark. I like them for the purposes of drow. I like the matriarchal spider obsessed group but you managed to get dark eldar in there a bit. Plus I wanted them to have reasons for creating mutants other than their exposure to what's tantamount to an Elder God. No Lolth, just a god who takes the form of a spider to please her servants.

>>48382307
>Well that's a little dark.

I've described them as 'catlike.' If my elves are cats, to them the humans are 'mice.'

To be fair, we're playing a darker game than most, and you're free to leave that stuff out in your interpretation.

I can't lay claim to the idea of cruel, inhuman elves, after all.

Good luck with your game, Anon!

>>48381221
Undead.
After a cataclysmic event a few centuries in the past their race was eliminated and raised as various undead races according to whatever sin the individual committed most of.
There aren't any living elves.

>>48382373
Eh I've killed NPC's before, but never as dinner, though in likelihood it might happen at some point (after all a new rival for the party is the Gnoll Avatar of Lamashutra)

My elves are very peaceful and isolated now for the most part. There is a massive elven population that live in gilded cities in the western continent, totally unexplored by the main focus of the game, the people of the eastern continents. In the west however the elves have been at war for thousands of years against the humans. They both wage war for lands, plunder, slaves, and status. This creates a large number of half elves whick are hated by both sides. Due to this the halfbreeds live the life of bandits, raiding and looting when they can. On the Eastern continents the peaceful tree dwelling elves weren't ready for the hatefull atracks from bands of halfelves which have sailed to their land for easy pickings.

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>>48381221
Crazy as Fuck. Basically think of them as Tieflings, with all the Edgelord "I have Fiend in me" replaced with Fey Folk Fuckery, Baby-Snatching, and "FILLING YOUR FACE-HOLES WITH KNIVES IS FUN!!!"

Also, Half-Elves are a result of Kidnapped children that have been infused with Fey Magic, while the offspring of an elf and a human would be a Subrace of Elf.

>>48381221
There was an old /tg/ thread where elves were the monkeys to the human apes. They had long arms and brachiated, used massive bows comparable to ballista, and blacksmiths were hermits living on the forest floor. I thought that it was pretty cool.

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A disenfranchised and scattered people, generally looked down upon by most as disreputable and untrustworthy.

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>>48381221
Elves being a powerful and prosperous race of wizards, warriors, artisits and craftsmen is always good.

>>48381221
50% Bosmer, 50% Discworld.

To stay in the real world they have to ingest reality and people are the "realest" thing.

>>48382663
how is that diskworld?

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>>48382412
Sure, no worries.

Here's something else that you might like: the elves take ostentatious ornamentation to a ludicrous level.

Every brick of every building is intricately carved and fit together like the pieces of a puzzle. Furniture is similarly carved, then varnished smooth, then polished to a mirror shine.

Clothing is baroque, multicolored, and often decorated with precious metal threads. Fashion changes on a whim; a priceless outfit that took years to craft can be worthless a day later.

When elvish ladies get their nails done, they have designs etched into the keratin and painted different colors. Elves of both genders do the same to their teeth, but use precious metals instead of paint in the designs.

Elves practice extensive tattooing and turn their bodies into living works of art. When they get bored of the designs, they have the skin stripped away, heal, and start again.

The stripped skins are used as decoration.

Essentially, it is /impossible/ to be overly descriptive when you're talking about the elves in my setting.

>>48382689
I figure anyone that got the reference would know what dickbags the DW elves are so explanation would be uneccesary, anyone that didn't know them, well too bad cause it's a shitload to write out on a cell.

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>>48382699
>When they get bored of the designs, they have the skin stripped away, heal, and start again.
>The stripped skins are used as decoration.
Fucking elves, man.

>>48381221
Militant woodsmen, with treetop cities in the rainforest.

Witcher continent elves + Lorwyn elves + some bosmer and wargames woodelf traits.

>>48382836
That got a reaction out of my players, too.

Waste not, want not.

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>>48381221
To the (theoretical) players, largely unseen or unheard of. During the founding of the kingdom, the elven royalty granted a boon on the first king, an Oathstone. The ancient standing stone allowed those of royal blood to call on the Aen Seidhe in times of need and in exchange, the elves were allowed to share the land and live among humans. A time of need came generations later and when the king called for aid at the Oathstone, he received no answer. The pact broken for unknown reasons, all elves were forced from the kingdom by magic and were never allowed to enter again. It is believed that if the oath was fulfilled, the kingdoms would become one again, but that is largely considered a tale for children, as is the existence of elves. Few know the truth, save for scholars who have bothered to read the oldest tomes of history and those who live close to the Dryad Arbor and have seen mysterious shapes in the trees, always watching.

>>48381221
Dead.

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>>48381221
they are annoyinh low lvl mobs to kill and grind XP with. its great, they cant fight and die so much but keep talking shit. really pisses my players they love killing an entire village of them.

>>48382755
elves being general dickbags isn't really unique to diskworld, and needing to eat people doesn't scream dickbag so much as 'predator'.

I just didn't catch any 'enjoys pain and fucking with people' in your description.

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>>48381407
True that.

>>48383178
IIRC the Discworld fey didn't even know what pain was, their toys just made noises and flailed about before they broke.

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>>48381221
I have them in my campaign as typical elves... arrogant, closed off and oblivious to the outside world, and monocultural. A race that's been dying for centuries, but they refuse to believe it. Their distant elven cousins have been wiped out (for varying reasons), leaving just the "sylvan" or "true" elves left.

Just elf filler.

>>48383240
possible. Still, that sounds like fuckery, while needing to 'ingest' people just sounds like being a predator.

While you might be scared of a predator, you don't hate them. And diskworld elves deserve hatred more than fear.

They're essentially the Non-Men from Prince of Nothing. Immortal, ageless, but the majority of them have fractured psyches at best from the sheer length of their lifetimes. Their memories have started to wane, and they can only recall their past glory in moments of extreme violence or stress. Some are worse than others, but they have little in the way of civilization anymore.

>>48383364
Oh they only need to eat people to stay in meatworld, if they skip the snack they just have to go home where there's no toys.

>>48381221
>What are the Elves like in your setting?
Dead. Seriously.
Just about a century ago, the Elves of the northern continent went to war with the ones of the western continent. Long story short, it was a very brutal war that the west nearly won. On the brink of defeat the northern leader feeling his people had betrayed him, poisoned his cities water supplies with a magical plague. This transformed the northern Elves in to monstrous things that hunted down and pretty much exterminated anyone with more than an eighth to a quarter of Elven blood heritage. Which is a shame since most of the cool magic stuff from both empires only works for people with Elf blood.

The campaign takes place in the power vacuum and wastelands created by this war.

>>48383451
So dod the monsters kill one another too?

A part of my !not Austria-Hungary/ HRE in space. They have grey to deep grey skin, either black or grey/white hair and obviously long pointed ears.
They are often considered dull and overtly serious since most elves people meet are in the armed forces and take their job seriously.

>>48383513
>So dod the monsters kill one another too?
Some do, as they themselves carry the smell of elven blood. But to most the blood of other corrupted seems to be unappetizing.

The army of the west fought heroically to protect their citizens but, since the fact the corruption was transmitted from attacker to victim was known in the early days of the spread, there wasn't much they could do. As far as we know currently they all died.

>>48383710
>was not known

>>48381221
More or less Dark Eldar in a fantasy setting.

The result of alchemical experiments to create superior slaves, Elves are a product of bathing Goblins in chemicals and magic rituals. Before they could become commonplace, the empire fell, and the Elves revolted and conquered the eastern lands, spreading the idea that they are a foreign power that invaded from a distant land to the east. They are arrogant, xenophobic, impervious to aging and disease, and sterile. The Elves keep the Goblins as slaves, as they are the source of creating new Elves.

Most Elves spend their times politicking and backstabbing each other to gain status, though their are some that seek their thrills elsewhere. Common entertainment events are Elven gladiators proving themselves in combat, though others will go and attempt to mount and break the steppe rhinos in the area. Due to their magical nature, Elves commonly can not use traditional magic, and they interfere with the flow of magic. Instead, those that practice magic use their own magical blood to fuel their rituals and spells.

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A tiny elite aristocracy over the trolls where only the youngest actually look like elves.

>>48381221
Depends on the setting.

But usually? Balkanized.

>>48381221
There are two "kinds" originally split due to a difference in beliefs.
Ones believed that communion with nature and its preservance was the only rightful way to live (and rather eagerly enforced this on the human kingdoms as well), while the other part believed in strict upbringing, a powerfull army and using druids for resource gathering.
Now they have split looks wise as well, mostly due to one part living way more south than the other.
Technically its Druids vs the elf version of Sparta.

>>48381407
>typical closet fag behavior
Loving Every Laugh

Technically, they're the same species as humans. The elves are the remnants of ancient noble houses that sought to prolong their lives and power via arcane means. Unfortunately, as the human mind really can't persist for much over a century, these immortal arcanists tend to grow slowly demented and eventually completely nutters. They're still powerful and often form houses of their own, both to consolidate power and to control their own if one gets too old and too senile.

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The first great, forgotten empires were those of elves. Long-lived, quick to grasp magic, able to learn the seasons and tame the plants and animals, the elves built great cities along the rivers of the East. Uruk, Ur, Akkad...these words are the last whispered memory of the glories of the past.

The elves looked up men, and saw their use. They gathered up tribes of mankind and established dominion over them. Men knew nothing of magic, of strong metals or swift chariots. They were easy to rule. They worked in the elves' imperial cities, marched in their armies, and even mingled their bloodlines together. The elves had come to clasp mankind to their bosom.

In their arrogance, the elves did not realize the power wielded by their servants. Mixed-blood children--more common by far than pureblood elf births--were favored for important imperial positions. They began to control the crops, taxes, armies, and roads. And so the humans began to learn the secrets of their masters-turned-kinfolk. After millennia of servitude, they could no longer be controlled. Cities burned, and empires fell. The palaces of the elven priest-kings became the homes of their mixed-blood and human usurpers, many of whom pointed to their elven lineage as proof of their right to rule.

But in this age of men, those bloodlines have drawn thin and scattered. It is rare that a king of the East can truly claim to be descended from elves--though almost all of them do. Many elfblooded lines became increasingly alien and inbred as their descendants tried to preserve their birthright--most notably in Egypt, whose feeble pharaohs were finally swept away by Alexander.

The new empires of the West--the Greeks, Carthaginians, Romans, and others--have no desire to claim kinship with elves. They are empires of men above all else, and view all things Eastern with suspicion. Individuals with significant elf heritage are a rare sight in the West, and true elves are unheard of.

>>48384072
It is said, though that elves still live far to the North, beyond even the Gauls and Germanics, in great forests that men fear to enter. Some whisper of elves deep in the mountains of Africa, underground, waiting for their chance to reclaim the glory and wealth of Egypt. But most of all, travelers will tell you that far to the East, beyond the reach of Alexander's amies, an even greater empire of elves rules over uncounted multitudes of men. It is said that these elves have learned from their cousin's mistakes, and they preserve the rule of their highborn caste with all their powers of magic and steel.

>>48384100
So elves created anime?

The ancient empire was actually closer to what a half-elves are. Elves are the hippy/magic obsessed offshoots, while humans are what became of most of the rest. I also dialed back the lifespans (any every other player race for that matter) significantly from the default DnD ones so they don't live that much longer than humans

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>>48384134

No. Not even elves are that depraved.

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>>48381221
All-female race, even if they pretend otherwise

Mortal descendants of the True Elves that crossed from the mystical world of Fae into the mortal plane millenia ago. Over time, they lost their faeric nature and became mortal, but also lost their vulnerability to iron.

Long story short, True Elves first established in the ancient forests of the world. When a cataclysmic war unrolled many of them returned to Fae,but some stayed,survived and thrived in their woodland homes. These remnants developed a culture of nature worshipping, tree hugging and general armony, until a group True Elves returned and started what would become the Golden Empire. Centuries later, the Empire turned into a tyrannical regime which would collapse from within due to inside conflict and civil war. That was about five hundred years ago respect the setting's "present".

There are three types; elves (like in "high elves"), who make the majority or elven population. Full with guilt (pretty much like post Nazi germany) and trying to fit in the human kingdoms 'cause no one elves wants them around.
Wood elves, who are more like their Fae ancestors (more like 2 meters tall, with slightly elongated faces, long canines and some even have a thin layer of fur). Xenophobic, belligerent and deep into the "survival of the fittest" philosophy. Live in the deepest,oldest forests of the world just like their predecessors,sometimes in the company of other creatures more powerful, who act like their spiritual leaders. Some tribes worship wood giants as the children of the earth.
And then,the grey elves; racist,cold motherfuckers, the offspring of the Golden Empire's nobilily. They want their empire back, but are building their strength in underground fortreress built in resemblance to the old elven palaces for an upcoming surface invasion. They're magic masters and really like biomancy,using sorcery to manipulate and change existing lifeforms to their whim. Duergar,derros,hobgoblins,bugbears and most of the beastmen species are the result of their tinkering.

>>48381407
How do they reproduce? Are they monogendered?

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>>48384211
Just like Dracs

We've basically taken their perception of themselves being superior to a rediculous degree. In a sense, they're nazis.
I also have my character call them "keeblers" as a racial slur.

>>48381221
Dead.
Light, Dark and Rasta elves were locked in a perpetual war to determine which subrace was the dominant and purest one. Their kingdoms were weakened by centuries of costant struggle.
Then, our absolutely not LE cleric, that totally doesn't worship Asmodeus, didn't convince our group to orchestrate the rise of an Orc leader capable of uniting the tribes into a cohesive horde, our fighter didn't train their generals in tactics, our wizard didn't provide instructions for their shamans and buffs together with the cleric to the horde and our rogue most certainly didn't start assassinating key elven figures.
We don't know why the Orc supreme leader likes us so much either.

>>48383329
There is nothing typical about all of that.

>>48381221
elves are more like native Americans and the dwarfs are like European colonists. 10 trees have enough resources to support 1 elf. dwarfs rip up 7 trees can support 1 dwarf. dwarfs and elves are at war with one an other with no end in sight. (dwarfs just need trees to support there caves)

humans are farmers and just want the land. elves don't trust humans but they don't expand too far into there land to rip up there trees and dwarfs see humans as elves who don't have trees to rip up and don't care about the trees.

humis are everyone's second enemies

>>48382609
>animu elves in glass armour

why must you rape my soul

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more pressing matter elf slave what do

>>48381407
Please, just kill your unfunny self already.

>>48384910
Contact the mods.

>>48384014
that's not bad
do they have elven physical traits?

>>48381221
>burned their own civilization down in a civil war
>survivors rebuilt, aided in early development of human culture
>condescending and back handed in their treatment of lesser races
>shamelessly sexual but highly conservative about one's role in society
>lost a war with the setting's Dragonborn-esque race and most of thier southern lands with it
>introduced humans to religion
>got mad when humans developed their faith beyond what Elves believe
>naturally born magic users, to the point they don't understand the idea of being unable to wield it naturally
>think Dwarves are freaks of nature for having absolutely no magic capability
>racist as hell toward Orcs, who don't really give a fuck about them
>aren't aware they are the cast away attempt by the setting's gods to create new bodies for their own decaying forms, abandoned when one of the gods was killed by the transfer process

>>48381221
They have a culture more akin to pacific islanders than Tolkien elves. That, and they're vaguely fish-like.

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>>48384910
In my settings elves are always slaves. I once changed groups and at first the new players felt sorry for the elves...Then they started talking to them and where just fine with them being slaves.

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>>48384918
i dont think he was trying to be funny dude. elves tend to be gay most of the time.

>>48385176
Sounds edgy anon.

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>>48381221
I rather avoid them and if they are in the realm i try to keep my players away from them.
I just dont enjoy doing a gay man or girl voice.

>>48383184
"Shit, did I leave the oven on?"

>>48385183
>elves tend to be gay most of the time.
Except they aren't. I mean can you prove this assumption? And with prove I don't mean your headcanon, but several influential settings in which it's explicitly stated to be true that most male elves are gay.

>>48385176
>Then they started talking to them and where just fine with them being slaves.
Doesn't sound very much like elves to me. Except for maybe Harry Potter house elves, but those are more like Hobs anyway.

>>48385184
How is that edgy? slaves are common in most setting and when NPCs are cocky cunts PCs tend to not like them.

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>>48385196

They're just another race. There's nothing inherently magical about them. They live longer than humans, but only to the extent that a ~150 year old elf would be akin to a ~90 year old modern human; expected to kick the bucket any day now.
They do have a pretty old culture, but they're not secretive about it, and they're not isolationist; typical 'elven' cities are about 75% elves, the rest made up of the other civilised races. There's one city in the elven homeland that's known for its bustling trade, and there are actually more humans than elves living there at any time.
More telling for the setting, though, is that there are no "human nations", "elven nations" and so on. There are just nations, and the various races who live in those areas tend to have more loyalty to their nation than any racial community or whatnot. Plenty of territorial conflict though, of course.

>>48382415
>FILLING YOUR FACE HOLES WITH KNIVES IS FUN!!!
>*holds up spork*

>>48385201
Not that guy, but it's kind of edgy to set up a setting in which one common fantasy race is always-slaves-all-the-time and not only that, like it, so you don't have any danger of the PCs overturning that aspect of your setting.

>>48385201
Because you made an entire race that either started as beautiful but dangerous fey creatures or aryan super humans nothing but slaves and also seem to DM'ed them in a way so your players will hate them. So this whole thing is set up to degrade them.

I said it "sounds" edgy because to really judge it I would need to know more, but I don't really want to.

>>48381221
Extincts.

>>48381221
>were the first civilised culture of sorts
>now primitve tribes that wander the land living as hunters and gatherers
>all "civilised" elves got wiped out when they had their personal "tower of babel" event that made them turn on each other
>before that, invented arcane magic
>were slavers at their high-time, almost none of the other races like them as a result
>have a bit of a Jedi thing going on; they must maintain calm and positivity, or they'll fall to the "dark side" easily
>come in all colours and variations

>haven't appeared in the campaign yet aside from hearsay and historic records/ancient ruins and such

Not even the players want to play elves anymore.
I think this is a good thing.

>>48385280
so Eldars?

>>48385299
Pretty much, only that they are not in space. Since I'm not into 40k I only noticed how much of a copy it was when a player pointed it out to me.
The other players don't 40k either though, so I've yet to hear complaints about the similarities.

>>48385337
I wonder if you legit came up with the ideas independently like how the wheel and writings were invented multiple times, or it it was cryptomnesia.

>>48385358
Probably cryptomnesia, but from somewhere else.

Cause if I had to make a guess how the idea came to be, I'm pretty sure I subconciously stole stole the base concept from Song of Ice and Fire's Valyrians (which unlike 40k stuff I've read extensively).
I tweaked the variables a bit, added a good dose of magical realm to it, and tried to make it fit with the other races I had already come up with.

Apparently that gives me Eldars in the end.

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Completely fucked.

>once stronk
>when their civilization started falling apart they panicked and made everlasting bonds with spirits
>spirits are fucking terrifying
>everyone regrets it

Now they are forced to live in forests to appease the spirits, offer their blood, lifespan, fertility, futures and magical potential, whatever strikes the spirit's fancy.

At least other races don't bully them, because nobody wants to deal with an army of wendigos if elves are backed into a corner.

Amazons

>>48381526
Anon, that is the woman.

>>48385201
>slaves are cocky cunts

Amazing writing anon.

Why are literally all elf haters some pathetic, sad and usually fat fags?

>>48381221
The only elves most people know of are the kind that would generally be referred as wood elves (although they also live in places other than woods). Usually nomadic or semi nomadic, with a fairly primitive tribal society. They have animistic religion, and are very good at using shamanistic or druidic magic.

Dark elves (aka. the void-touched) are far more numerous, but live on another continent and have only recently spread on the continent humans live in, so very few people know about them. They're religious fanatics following strange and eldritch gods, led by an immortal high priestess who is more abomination than elf. They're pretty much pointy eared Cthulhu cultists, who've also taken some cues from the Aztecs when in comes to religious practices.

High elves are extremely rare, and the few that exist are extremely isolationistic and xenophobic. They're the remains of the original elven civilisation, which destroyed itself messing with powers mortals were not supposed to wield. Dark elves took the destruction of their empire as divine punishment for their hubris, while wood elves are the ones who did the same thing as Exodite Eldar, and moved as far away as possible when they saw shit was about to hit the fan, abandoning their technology and arcane magic in the process.

>>48381526
>first of all, that guy is significantly more pretty than the woman
Eh, I'd fuck both. Preferably at the same time.

>>48383329
Those aren't typical elves though.

The standard elves throughout most high fantasy settings (every D&D world, WHFB, IK, Tolkien) are the opposite of monocultural, with variants so wildly different from the others that they're almost a different species. If their time has passed or they're dying (Tolkien, 40K, IK) they usually know it.

You're describing /tg/ elves.

>>48385980
that sounds really interesting. So, they've essentially become slaves to the fae?

>>48386462
Tolkiens elves aren't dying, they are leaving to a better place.

I haven't changed a whole lot from the book representation, aside from the following.

- They don't live 800 years, that's fucking stupid. They tend to top out at around 200.

- They, more or less, act like humans- specifically, older humans. When it comes to large-scale matters, they're very conservative and don't like changes, because they feel like, due to their longer lifespans, they have more to lose than humans. When it comes to personal life an elf might take a year off from their profession to study painting or whatever, but politically and socially, they want to get society to a stable (if not necessarily progressive) place and then keep it exactly as it is.

>>48386493
Fading, then.

The 'elves are a dwindling race' trope is 100% derived from Tolkien elves and their gradual return to Valinor.

Elves have had their day in the spotlight, but that Age ended with a cataclysm and now they're no longer so unified as they were before. There are various kingdoms, such a Lightwood, where elves are carving out more and more of the aforementioned wood to make room for city growth and agricultural ranges. In Wenlan Kingdom, they, along with half-elves and humans there have slowly started to develop the first nationalistic sentiment in the world after being under boot of various other kingdoms time and time again. Half-way across the world, another cultural group has hidden behind a wall after human genocided them and drove them out from plains north of the wall. They're heavly xenophobic, canibalistic and blood magic is not frowned upon.

Overall, they're not immortal. In the past, they took part in a ritual that ripped out their disease resistance and immortality. Not what those that cast the spell planned, but still, they survived at least. Often, whenever a new race arrives in the world, bringing their diseases with them, elves get decimated by those. They're tall and lithe, with gift when it comes to magic, distinguishing features (skin, hair color, etc.) varying wildly between different cultural groups.

>>48381221

Fucking HUGE penises. I'm talking, almost 30 stories high. Other than that normal sized bodies proportions etc.

>>48381221
Immortal imperialists in three different flavours (Viking Elves with a martyrdom fetish, angry French Elves and volcano worshiping slavic dark elves) whose favorite hobbies include military conquest, oppressing the lesser races, enslaving (and raping) them and also warring viciously among themselves.

With the exception of a human empire based on Justinian I's Byzantine Empire, they rule all of not!17th century Europe.

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>>48381221
the men are pissed off like nothing else, entirely dedicated to war, tall and fit as fuck, the women are short and they are not allowed to dedicate themselves to war, instead they are the workers of elven society, merchants, tax collectors, politicians etc... are all women, the men are the smiths, the soldiers and the emperor, who is the supreme leader of the elven army.
they clad themselves in armor from head to toe and arm themselves with the biggest baddest weapons they can hold in their hands and charge into battle chanting at the top of their lungs, it's a pretty terrifying sight.

>>48386148

So like they are all tanned females who hate men?

>>48386643

Nice, while all the elfmen are off fighting, that gives you the chance to move in and jack off on the elf women ;)

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>>48386698
unless you try to rape them you won't find much success, elves despise humans, they want to fight them so bad but humans outnumber them 50 to 1 so they'd just get obliterated by a fuckhuge army, which is the only deterrent keeping the elves in check

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A blanket term for any human race that grew up in low or microgravity. They're taller than "normal" humans, but frail and oddly proportioned. Genetics, environmental oddities,and plastic surgery might give them other stereotypical elven traits, but weird, lanky builds are the key.
Because low-gravity worlds don't have much in the way of atmospheres or native life, "elves" in their native habitats need to make everything themselves, so they're savvy with terraforming, hydroponics, and other sciences necessary to support life in 0G.

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>>48386480

Something like that. Spirits have the capriciousness and gleeful cruelty of the fae mixed with unfathomable horror of eldritch abominations.

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Immortal, ageless, divine.

Elves are one of the Child Races, birthed by two of the primary deities as soldiers to fight the eldritch powers infringing on the material realm (who in turn had their Created Races; orcs, goblins, trolls, gnolls, and finally humans). Ogres were also a Child Race, but turned rapacious and greedy.

When the material realm was secured, the elves were called back, but a few of their number felt pity for the last Created Race, humanity, who was too young to have fought and were now lost and directionless in a vast world. Defying their parents, these elves swathed their fiery forms in skins and bound themselves to the earth, choosing to stay behind and nurture mankind. For this act of rebellion, it was decreed that they could only return once they had fully repented and cleansed themselves of earthly desires.

In the modern setting, there are very few elves left. Maybe a little over a thousand in the whole world. Mankind now standing on its own two feet, most have reached enlightenment and ascended from the material realm, rejoining their divine parents. When they die, they fade from the world to await rebirth. Most elves are born to other elves, but occasionally, they will spring from human parents. Such children are generally taken in to the temples where most elves are housed and educated.

Elves are typically of high standing, well educated, and skilled. They often act as advisors, intermediaries, and are religious leaders by default. They have no kingdoms or lands of their own, and are more of a revered subculture within the human nations.

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A soldier race created by humans along with Orcs.

I don't recall the type of foot structure but they have elongated toes with the toe on the heel which allows them to grasp and manipulate objects just like with their hands making them adept climbers. They are designed for extended operations where they can operate alone or in small packs coupled with the fact that they don't actually sleep and only need to limit their physical activity to get a sufficent level of rest.

Once humans died out, these traits would influence the various elven cultures which mainly emphasis personal excellence since many retain the instinct to operate alone which mainly meant hunting and learning skills to aid in their survival/mission

>>48382017
Well, Michael Moorcock pretty much invented GW's version of Chaos so...yeah.

>>48381221

A combination of the Melniboneans and the Vadagh from Moorcock, with elements of the Celts, Jews, and Cherokee worked in, complete with an inhuman mindset and ethics and rigid ritualism in their daily life.

>>48383184
"Tell the High Seer: 'Delete my browser history.'"

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Anything that once resembled 'elves' has been cursed to reside in the depths of the earth. Over time they changed into pale, lanky creatures like wendigo that communicate with whistling. A recent human mining expedition released the cavern in which they were sealed, allowing these horrors to come to the surface under cover at night. They stalk the perimeter of human camps, calling out for help in eerie voices to attempt to lure unsuspecting children into the depths of the woods, never to be seen again.

>>48387687
what is it with elves and wendigos

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>>48381758
>>48381969
>>48382699
Now that I'm awake again, let's continue.

My elves are the only non-human sentient species in the setting and they take the place of the others that you'd normally find.

They're the elves, the orcs and the dwarves all in one; sophisticated aristocrats, savage warriors, and impeccable craftsmen.

My elves are the precursors to all later societies, the equivalent to the creators of the river valley civilizations of our world.

Think of the empires of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Indus Valley, among others, but all connected by a single imperial bureaucracy of ridiculous complexity so that it spanned the length and breadth of the Old World.

All great human nations are built on the bones of abandoned elvish territory, although none can claim to approach anything resembling the former grandeur of the Empire.

The greatest of these upstart kingdoms, Eagland, claims to be the inheritor of elvish authority in the same way that a nation in our world might call itself the Third Rome.

>>48384960
Yeah. Back when these ancient arcanists were trying to redesign themselves, they opted to go for noble bearing, impressive height, attractiveness and eternal youth. So intense eyes, stunning looks, height and lithe bodytypes are the standard. Pointed ears are a take-it-or-leave-it thing, but usually included.

>>48381221
No elves in my setting.

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>>48382699
>Adventurer's faces when they walk into an Elven art gallery

>>48383184
"Shit, is that an arrow?"

>>48384230
"Your Mickey Mouse is stupid!"

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>>48381221
They're pretty much universally disliked if not outright hated by the other civilized races for various reasons. During their heyday they enslaved a large part of the Dwarven race in order to put them to work operating the mundane aspects of their empire. Humans dislike them for both their sacriligeous use of magic and for impeding human expansion into the wild places of the world.

At one point the Elves capitulated the known world from their capital in the east, in the region now known as the hollow wastes. Their society revolved wholly around magic, which was viewed as a path that might one day lead their race to divine ascendence by contact with the source of all creation; the diety Akasha. Their empire was destroyed with their homeland more than 1000 years ago in a grand magical ritual gone awry that came to be known as the hollow night. The majority of the elves were consumed along with the vitality of the earth, the survivors of the race that lived out in the periphery of the empire subsequently split into two factions; the Highborn elves who abide by the traditions of their former empire and continue to strive for greater arcane mysteries from their secluded enclaves, and the free wandering nomads who have abandoned arcane magic and sealed it away, choosing to live at one with nature instead.

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I think about redoing my dark elves. They weren't really "dark" to begin with and their whole society could have also worked really well as a human race.

I'm fascinated by the thought of an elfen race that's all surface. These dark elves have mastered illusion magic. Like all elves they are inherently magic. They use their illusion spells to appear inhuman beautiful, almost divine and trick you into falling in love with them or even thinking that they are gods. But behind the curtain they look unbelievable ugly for an elf, with dark skin, creepy eyes.

They are scattered around the world and almost extinct, because not only the other elves hate them. This one spooky forest might actually be the home of one dark elf that wants to live there in peace. I also like the idea that they managed to set themselves up as godkings of some stupid orcs, that won't believe any outsider that their kings are just elves using magic, because HAVE YOU SEEN THEM? THEY GLISTEN SO BEAUTIFUL!

Not!mongols

>>48382017
This is the hero. One of the villains used Chaos magic to turn a man into a giant butterfly demon.

>>48384910
No, that slave is an orc.

Cockney bastards with Australian accents.

Nobody likes them.

>>48390781
Yes, an elf's slave

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>>48389427
That sounds a lot like my setting's dark elves here >>48386395

My elves also blew up much of their homeland in a huge magical mishap (although in this case they didn't want to contact any god, but accidentally got the attention of not-Azatoth while using a ritual to draw limitless magical power from outside creation), creating the Ashlands, a several thousand miles wide crater where no mundane creature can survive for long (the place is effectively radioactive, only instead of radiation it's some eldritch magic leaking in from tears in reality). They also conquered and enslaved most of the dwarven race, using them for labor and as source of sacrifices, although that was after they blew themselves up and rebuilt their society as what would be known as the dark elves.

Basically, the elves that survived the cataclysm were left in a very bad state. Their capital and heartlands of their empire were replaced with a irradiated wasteland, and even the areas that weren't rendered completely lifeless suffered massive devastation.
They likely would've all died, if not for the appearance of a prophetess who one day came walking from the Ashlands. She claimed to have been present at the destruction of the elven capital, and through the rift in reality gazed upon the face of God. Although her eyes were burned out by the sight, she was gifted with divine wisdom. She gathered the remaining elves, and taught them how to survive in their new homeland and how to worship the gods who had revealed themselves to her. The gods, she said, had punished the elves for their hubris, but had also given them a chanse to redeem themselves by dedicating themselves to their worship. After rebuilding their society, the elves went on a holy crusade, eventually conquering their dwarven neighbours and enslaving them (they believe all should serve the true gods; the elves are the priests and holy warriors, while other, less enlightened races can serve as manual labor).

>>48382228
It is? I don't know much beyond psionic squid monsters in fezzes.

>>48381221
We were playing a modern setting with behind the scenes magic with a fantasy mirror Earth on the other side of the sun. While digging without a license under our rented city property of the west to see if we could buff our magic wellspring we discovered the entire city was built on an ancient high elf doomsday bunker. Most of it had been looted by the feds, but we found the untouched secret cold sleep chamber with their hidden nobility (including some high dark elves and humans from their kingdom) and a bunch of their magic battle mechs. There was even the rightful heir to the throne, who would be the equivalent of Aragorn returning to Gondor if she got returned to the mirror world.

They were all better than us with improved statistics (excepting the humans), a telepathic network, and, as noted, ancient magical weaponry. The latter actually performed quite well against modern technology. Their princess was all of the above, except more so. In pretty much every way you could imagine humans ought to have just gone extinct in comparison.

Not really having any better ideas, and having convinced the elves we were some kind of superheroes due to a string of poor decisions that somehow came out looking cool, we decided "Hey, if Santa can supplement himself with elf minions, so can we." And that was how we got the world on the road to World War 3 (it was short, but led to a war involving every planet from Jupiter on in a month or so later). We were also arrested for illegal importation of magical beings and for adversely possession a vampire's territory with them.

Elves in my setting were created by the goddess of fire who is also the creator of arcane magic in my world. They fall into three sub races

The most common elves are the ka'ri or sun elves. Then their are the Fey'ri or wood elves and the shad'ri or ash elves also called shadow elves which fill the role of drow in my setting.

The culture is mostly based Segoku era japan right before the edo period. Since my setting takes heavy influence from the age of sail. I always liked a world where borders were defined but the wilds of the world still remained uncharted and unknown and filled with ancient myths and folklore.

>>48381221
Elves are more or less indisguishable from humans. At any rate they're similar enough that many men are mistaken for elves and vice versa.

Behaviorally they're often far calmer and prone to thoughtfulness than humans. They consider actions in general a double edged sword that might very well end up causing more harm than good. For that reason they often keep to themselves and rarely get involved in the affairs and politics of other races unless absolutely necessary.

However, when elves do get emotional they hold nothing back. An elf that falls in love falls madly in love and do not dare part from his beloved's side. An elf that is angered will set the world on fire to get his revenge.

>>48381221
French with magical biotech. Both "light" and "dark" elves.

Except for those fuckers at the desert, which are jungle elves at their faerie oasis and fierce tuaregs outside. Each tribe has a different skin color according to their totem.

Wanted to mix up a lot of the stereotypes in my setting, and due to the nature of the campaign and the fact that the players will learn of the outside world through a Kobold, the Elves in my setting aren't called "Elves," but they're close enough.

Each of the races is known by the Kobolds as "The [Element] People," based off of their culture. Elves are The Fire People, and still a work in progress. Too Dunmer right now, imo but I'm working on it.

>Tall, angular, and almost translucently pale with huge eyes
>Slightly above average life-span
>Mostly underground society centered around a system of volcanoes
>Have tamed a race of large salamanders as mounts/beasts of burden
>#3 Race at magic (Merfolke and the not!Angels race beating them out) but best race at forging anything metal
>Trees are for fuel, not hugging
>Huge boner for explosions. They are the only race (Besides not!Angels, but they find it distastful, the Mary Sues) to figure out gunpowder.

>>48381221
In my setting elves are ancestor worshiping zealots, as they age their skin hardens and their hair slowly goes from white to green, turning more tree like as they age, eventually they become stationary, basically they just turn into a tree which is why they're so adamant about protecting nature and what not.

>>48381221
Sand elves: desert dwelling, warrior-cultured living alongside an orc clan
high elves: elegant without the arrogant attitude with a high regard to personal honor and duty (pseudo-japan without the weaboo)
wood elves:semi-savage/shamanistic society other then that normal wood elves

>>48398255
the sand elves also revere nature as a challenge to overcome and respect through it's unforgiving ferocity as well it's charity for those that are worthy

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Bunch of liars. But I mean we're all liars here, making up these fantasy worlds that don't really mean anything. So let's cut the elves some slack: you're an "Immortal" race that dates back to the dawn of time and space. You were there when the drums first beat in rhythms of one and one and one. And you were there when the drummer started beating in the sound of Y and Y and Z patterns, because he wanted to tell you that the past didn't have to be in the present anymore. But you didn't listen, did you?
And from the Immortal pillars of creation came mortality: a manufactured child race that would wilt and die as you grew bored of them- as above, so below. Then they turned on you, claiming their stars for their own and setting off to new worlds without you. You were scared too, because they had something you never did: Hope. Hope that things could be different. Hope that the past didn't have to determine the present- that they could use that pivot point called "Now" to make something wonderful. And that wonder named itself "That I Am".
So you ran from them, and tried to make everyone else run too. You expanded the Aleph, creating a gap between mortal man and their gods because you were afraid. You were afraid that these creatures, these frail beings had understood the words of your parents better than you ever did. Not mere knowledge, but internalization: an innate attuning to the Gray Maybe that only real Immortals had.
And there's the lie: you aren't an Immortal, and you never were. You tried to walk like them until they walked like you, but always fell short. And that mortal man got there before you did? Insult to injury. So you blew it up. The Aleph grew, the Reach of God strained further, and now you never have to worry about That I Am catching up to your misdeeds.

How small your idea of God must be, that you think it apart from the Here and Now.

My dwarves are elves and my elves are dwarves.

>>48381711
neat, but that sounds more like some sort of fey than just elves

>>48381221
Horrrible, 12 foot tall fey creatures who shun the light of the sun in favour of starlight.

They are lazy, cruel, and capricious, and believe themselves the chosen people of the Dragon, Father of Creation. They eat children whole, and are capable of unhinging their jaws and distending their bellies and take weeks to months to digest them, should they indulge in this behaviour.

They enslaved mankind for millennia, and drove us back to the stone age multiple times, until someone, somewhere, finally invented Iron. Iron's innate anti-magic properties were utterly toxic to the elves and drove them back across the sea where they belong. No one has seen them in hundreds of years, but their bastard cousins, the troglodyte Deeplings, and their homunculi slave caste that replaced mankind, still exist and are very much a threat to the border countries.

However, its been so long, many doubt elves ever existed at all in the first place.

Technology has advanced, and man has crawled out of the dark ages. They are no longer using Iron, but its cousin, Steel.

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>>48399191
whoops, pic related

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>>48399181
That's just the thing, I've heard people say "elves are just humans with pointy ears" and when you try to do something like that, they basically ask "why do you even bother still calling them elves"

Would it help if I toned a few things back?

I mean I wanted the hands and feet thing partially so it's not just the head that looks different from a human.

>>48399531
i hate that tolkien shit