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Into The Dark: Mercenaries (Heroes of Fame and Fortune)

Agreed, Arassel is pretty much neutral on the whole thing...and places no value on human life, really.

'Elves' - An inverted Elven RP

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Where does the semi-justified reason come in? It just seems like your guy kills or blinds anyone who looks at the moon because he's crazy, which sounds like something a human village would band together against considering elves being equivalent to goblins in this setting.

Also @Jbcool, would there be elf-orcs, or is that too much of a genetic leap for non-stillborn offspring?

It would be hated/feared more than your usual Elf, if not killed at birth, but I'll allow it.

I decided that since we're basically RPing as more chaotic evil versions of the elves from Elfquest, I'm gonna have a character in a threemateship, but I haven't decided on two wives or a wife and a husband. Where do the elves fall on the acceptance scale for things of that sort?

See above for refute of the first, but I'd happily allow a threemateship if you like. Got no problem there.

Last question! The elves live in remote places like swamps, forests, and caves -- Do they have the tech and resources to make metal and fabric, or do they use stone weapons and wear furs?

That is entirely up to the writer of the character, each Elven 'people' living within their own realms beyond the veil - essentially the 'curtain' through which man cannot peer, but on the other side where most mythical creatures dwell. Think of mediums and the veil between the living and dead. So, if you wished to have an Elf that lives in the mountains and uses the ore there to make metal, or one who lives in the woods and weaves his clothing from gossamer, then that's all good. If you'd like one that wields a stone club and wears animal pelts...that's fine too.

@DeadBeatWalking

@DeadBeatWalking
>elves being equivalent to goblins in this setting
Aren't elves more like twisted gaelic Fair Folk in this setting?

This is correct, but not simply Gaelic, cast your net to a wider European range - redcaps, Heinzelmännchen, or indeed many others. They dwell (for the most part) alongside such creatures as the Kelpie, Selkie and Faun in a place where time has no meaning.

>Where does the semi-justified reason come in?
The world's still magical and full of superstition, duh. I bet there are many gods, occasional miracles and other wondrous and horrible happenings, not to speak of actual sorcery and wizardry. Guy might harness actual power of Luna through some evil rituals and bathing in virgin blood, even.

There are miracles and the like, just as there are in our own world, but actual magic as seen in most High Fantasy is pretty rare indeed. That being said, I do agree that just going about blinding/killing anyone looking at the moon is a wee bit too crazy. To most humans though, the moon is just the moon.

@Eyeruption

@AlysCole@XSilentWingsX@Southern Sun@POOHEAD189

Righto, to any and all interested parties, I'll have an OOC up sometime tomorrow. Until then, I advise you to read this thread, and if you have any questions/ideas then lets hear them.

Thank you.

Last of the Great Beasts - Anthropomorphic, high-casual, interest thread.

@Eyeruption Reptiles...why yes, yes there are.

@Arcarius@Polaris North Thank you both.

'Elves' - An inverted Elven RP

@DeadBeatWalking@Eyeruption

I guess I may want to clear up a few things here, as both of you make good points, but things also seem to be getting mixed up here.

The Elves are not evil, nor are they like D&D style goblins (although some might be!). What they are are more exaggerated versions of the Fae/Fairy Folk/Little People found in European mythology but also retaining those features.

One example of this might be that a farmer promises an 'Elf' - which is the name by which most humans call anything not a Troll, Giant etc - a portion of his harvest if it is good. When the time comes the farmer goes back on his promise, something particularly heinous to our Elf. Not only does our injured party set fire to the entire crop, but the next day the farmer finds his child replaced by a sickly thing imitating his only son, haunting laughter and a babies cries coming from somewhere and nowhere at once.

The terror attacks and the like are not so much out of evil and malevolant motivations, but more because of a burning desire to retain a place both in the pantheon of human memory and within their own 'realm' as it were.

This setting - as I shall explain more in the OOC - is split between two worlds, that of the human world and that of the more fantastical world 'beyond the veil'. Elvenkind, and differing kinds of Elves, aren't wholly accepted in either realm, both because of their own warmongering actions in their early history and because of the fact that they failed in trying to achieve dominance which has left them in this mess.

I think that in this game, elves are a subject of honest fear and terror for humans, which is why they still survive without being made extinct by the humanity.

This is true; think of what reverance and even fear that simple Fairies at the bottom of the garden have been held in over the centuries, how stories of carin-dwelling Trowls and mystical standing stones still permeates our collective psyche to this day. Once driven back into a varying wilderness and exile, over time they were forgotten as vicious killers, as beings who had once tried to commit genocide on an entire race, but became rememgered as milk-sourers and mischevious sprites...still feared, but also mocked and scoffed at by those more inclined to science. Many believing that they never exist/existed at all.

I'll get some more up later, got to sleep now.

'Elves' - An inverted Elven RP

@Jbcool
Oh, obviously it's an elf who proclaimed himself a knight who protects the honor of the Moon.

@Eyeruption

Right then, well I do hope you're joking, it's very hard to tell over the internet. If you're not, then for this setting I'd say that that's not a great idea.

Into The Dark: Mercenaries (Heroes of Fame and Fortune)

after the wood elf did his say

He's a Great Clan Elf, although I do see how a Dwarf would get confused about that. :)

Into The Dark: Mercenaries (Heroes of Fame and Fortune)

The Wood Elf listened intently to everything that was being said, relegating herself to standing in the shadows and sipping at her ale from time-to-time, her eyes flickering back and forth between the assembled sell-swords in a somewhat absent minded manner. Some might think that she was nervous and on edge in the company of so many, and they would be right! She had never liked spaces surrounded by walls - not even toppled and ruined ones - and certainly held no love for being squashed together with such an assemblage of bodies, armour and weapons as this.

"Arassel," she offered to those about her, and to the self-proclaimed Captain, her voice like the tinkling of glass pieces or wind-chimes in a breeze, "archer, tracker and woodsman."

Apart from that she was loathe to offer anything to the current discussion, partly because she was too busy staring at the Elf from her distant kindred who spoke before the flaming Dwarf, and secondly because she couldn't care any less for the lives of this 'lord' or his underlings, in fact she would have been quite happy to sacrifice them all if it helped them get rid of the bandits afterwards.

Taking another draught of ale, and becoming quite used to the rather beige taste - not like Elven ale...not at all - she knew that if anyone wished to address her then they would; until then she would go back to her silent vigil at the rear of the group.

Beyond the Ring - A Tolkien based RP

@Vor Hhmmm, some good points there, I like it; let me mull on this for a bit and I'll get to thinking. Thank you for your 2 cents though, I'll try not to waste them.

'Elves' - An inverted Elven RP

Up the airy mountain
Down the rushy glen,
We dare n't go a-hunting,
For fear of little men;
Wee folk, good folk,
Trooping all together;
Green jacket, red cap,
And a white owl's feather!

I'm interested, this sounds awesome as fuck. I wanna make a self-proclaimed knight of the moon, posessing of infinite vanity and unmeasurable pride justified by his stellar warmaking and swordsmanship skills but not his personality.

@Eyeruption

Well thank you for that William Allingham excerpt, as well as your interest, but you'd need to explain to be what the heck a 'self-proclaimed knight of the moon' is? Never heard of it/them/him/her in my life.

Into The Dark: Mercenaries (Heroes of Fame and Fortune)

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Worst case scenario, it's a sparkly one.

@Fubsy

How DARE you even speak of that!