Making a setting where elves are based off of european pagans

>>55181786
Snake worship and reincarnation

>>55181806
Oh and blue tattoos

>>55181786

If you don't have unthinkably swift, naked, and fanatical shroom-fueled, heart-eating, axe-wielding berserker-priests you're doing it wrong.

>>55181786
The elves have a holy mountain where their philosopher-god (secretely a dwarf) lives. The afterlife is under the mountain, accesible to elves who died in battle, where you sit by the god's throne.

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>>55181786
I'll lazily leave this here.

>>55183596
meh, this is cherrypicked bullshit

>>55181786
Big ass totem-pole gods.
Stone circles
Runes

Other memes.

a lot of finnish mythos might be pretty interesting for elves

>>55181786
Make sure you get some astronomy up in that bitch. Also, bush medicine

>>55183596
Keen.

Seems weird to worship your ancestors when you already live for a thousand years because wouldn't many of them still live or at least remember what they were like?

>>55187660
Even more reason to venerate them once they're gone. It can be hard to lose a loved one after a paltry human life span having to go on without their wisdom. Times 10.

Have the elves live in the north/north-east, in a geographically vast area but sparsely populated. No one knows just how large their population is, so collective elven anger is very dangerous (think wild hunt from warhammer fantasy or the dothraki from GoT). It's also intersting having elves as being less advanced on a technological and societal level than humans.

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