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Revised assumptions Version 1

- Elves are long lived or immortal, as a result they favour high quality or long-lasting products. Their point of view is less focused on a strictly annual or seasonal cycle.
- Elves have a greater understanding of genetic inheritance allowing more advanced selective breeding of plants and animals. Alternately they can use magic to obtain similar effects, this fits with the instances of elves having enhanced breeds of horses and the like.
- Elven technology diverged from the human norm, at TL 1 or 2.
- Where possible/plausible Elven technology will be simple with higher quality, magic and/or higher skill making up the deficiency.
- Elves are omnivorous with similar requirements to humans, however they are not as reliant on grain crops. Among other things their assumed proficiency with bows seems to indicate meat is eaten, possibly often.
- This particular group is semi-nomadic and agricultural production* is discrete/nonobvious, sustainable and relatively harmonious with nature. It may even devote effort to improving the quality of the surrounding environment.
- An inherent level of magic has some effect. Probably increased yield for a given area or increased yield for a given amount of work. It may also be applied to less directly such as by applying something like a glamour to magic springs and food caches.
- There may have been magical catastrophes in the past.
- Weigh in favour of Tolkien’s elves
-Skinny builds are indicative of a high energy/nutrition diet. large stomachs are loosely associated with lower quality diets.
- Temperate forest is the likely base location.
- Elves have some ephemeral social issues.
- Permaculture influences.
Maybe’s
- The agriculture is likely to include more hunting and gathering than human societies at equivalent TLs.
- They may be poorly adapted to recent changes, a suggestive if likely inaccurate example might be “Unemployed master mammoth hunter”
-Elves have some domestic or nearly domesticated fantastic animals.
- Elves themselves may not follow genetic inheritance. This might not end up relevant in the first example but may be useful when explaining other issues like subraces of elves that develop over a very few generations or Winter and Summer courts.
-Elven fertility is low, there are possibly issues involving reproduction.
*I’m using this as a catchall term for things harvested from organic sources