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Originally Posted by Michael Thayne
After posting this thread I've started to think more about the impact of even a small number of very old elves on a setting. If elves are ageless, even a small number of lucky elves who manage to survive thousands of years without dying of violence or accident means "living memory" in your setting is thousands of years. Unless some cataclysm wiped out most of the elves born before a certain date. Hmmm. How do people like to handle this?
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That assumes they have impossibly perfect memories. Human memory gets less reliable over time. We instinctively make good things better, bad things worse, and our part in events more important. I wouldn't trust an honest elf's story of millennia ago anymore than a "fact" by Pliny the elder.