Re: Elven Poltics
A lot of this discussion is also predicated on elven psychology being reasonably close to human psychology, and that just might not be the case. If your natural lifespan is millennia, maybe ennui just doesn't set in the way it does for humans; maybe you can spend decades contemplating a single thing, or you're constantly finding new things to be engaged by even in familiar subjects. (Or maybe you have terrible long-term memory and you're re-learning things and reinventing yourself every century or two.)
You could get some interesting politics out of seasonal/cyclical elven courts, too, of course. Kingdoms of Amalur, of all things, has a fun take on this, actually...
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