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Originally Posted by The Colonel
When I'm not in an elves-as-fae mood I've often been amused by the idea of elves as a herd of cats.
Basically they have no formal social structure and deal with one another mainly as individuals - they have friends and relatives and people to whom they listen and give respect, but no real society.
Of course it helps that I tend to prefer my elves extremely rare and superhuman.
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Cats form very strong social structures with pretty clear hierarchy, at least once you get to a sufficient density of well fed ones.
They're not entirely stable social hierarchies, but few are.