The feral ones sound awesome.

I really, really like the 2nd and 4th… I’m doing something similar to Forgotten Ancients for my “Orcs” ancestors…

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Hmm, not sure cribbing so heavily from White Wolf for the third one is wise (CtL is quite good, however). The first two and the latter are pretty good, though.

@ Victoria:

Thanks. I haven’t read Prachet in ages. I think once upon a time I read all of his Rincewind stuff, and bunch of Death related novels (I distinctly remember Mort and another one where Death quits his job and goes traveling) but then got kinda tired of it.

@ AruniRC:

Hey, I like that too. The other way around works too Elves that live in magical realms are tricksters and chaotic neutral, while those who migrated to mortal realms developed in more stable environments and became noble, lawful good and etc. :)

Well Pratchett did set out with an understandable axe to grind – the fact that Elves were (at least in the Tolkien canon) all high and graceful and everything that humans couldn’t be and yet yearned after hopelessly. the fact that this sense of inadequacy is wrong … that was something cool. Lords and Ladies i think was the book.

all these universes are cool. or maybe a pot-pourri of them all. Maybe the elves were originally canonical – the ones of Tolkien myth. And then those that remained back in mortal realms gradually became more of the woods and the earth, stunted and slowly bereft of their high powers. until they finally become the diminutive creatures of usual folklore – small magicks and tricksters. Like Kipling’s Puck of Pook’s Hill and the rest.

Love your approach to the topic. My favorite elfs (whome I love to hate) are Pratchett’s: horrible little fuckers that consider men to be toys. ‘Elves are terrific – they terrify’ – right up my street :)