Re: Assumptions about Elves
Just being able to control fertility by will, magic, or herbalism would on its drastically reduce population growth. Some modern societies are below replacements rates after all.
Unaging would remove one reason for needing big families in the first place, that of retirement insurance.
(Oddly, just looking around a bit... it seems that the average family size in medieval Europe may have been much smaller than is popularly stated and I assumed.)
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