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>Aren't elves more like gaelic Fair Folk in this setting?
Goblins, elves, fairies, and other sorts of troublemaking imps from European folklore all fall under the "Fair Folk" umbrella from classical mythology. I was talking modern fantasy D&D style goblins: Pests that attack in numbers and at night, which seems to [i]also[/i] be the case for our elves, which conduct terror attacks and kidnappings because [i]evil[/i].

>The world's still magical and full of superstition, duh.
That's all well and good, but I wasn't asking how he justifies worshipping and killing for the moon so much as he justifies being a templar-style holy knight without any active crusade. Is he supposed to be a knight in a more figurative sense?

>Well, if one isn't ready to put up with occasional human raid why bother playing elves at all?
The point I was making was that it seems like an elf -- a driven-back species outnumbered and outarmed by humans -- who is killing humans for that broad of a reason, would probably get killed pretty quickly, or at least become a much bigger target.