04-06-2018, 04:40 PM | #71 | |
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Re: Stretching the bounds of typical fantasy races -OR- What makes an elf?
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Still shortish rather than dwarfish, IMO. But at least in your example picture from Enterprise they're in the ballpark a littler better. I guess I shouldn't have just used one quick search with numbers as canon. I thought it was Memory Alpha, but it seems it wasn't.
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04-06-2018, 06:05 PM | #72 | |
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Re: Stretching the bounds of typical fantasy races -OR- What makes an elf?
In Enterprise, they are more or less the same size as the Andorians/Humans/Vulcans/ etc.
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04-07-2018, 09:28 AM | #73 | |
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04-07-2018, 11:21 AM | #74 | |
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Re: Stretching the bounds of typical fantasy races -OR- What makes an elf?
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If you didn't want to go the route of making them fully spiritual creatures without a stable physical form, you could easily make a version of elves as a playable RPG race as essentially humans or closely related hominins that are natural or universally trained illusionists, employing glamour to hide, disguise, and/or embellish their homes, walk around unseen by regular humans, and similar tricks, so that they can coexist with human society but almost completely hidden. In some ways, they would not be dissimilar to the wizards and witches of Rowling's world, except for the extent of interbreeding and popping up in human families (although that too could conform to the changeling trope). |
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04-07-2018, 11:26 AM | #75 |
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Re: Stretching the bounds of typical fantasy races -OR- What makes an elf?
The Norse may have; at the very least, there's no mention of them being short in the original myths, although they tend to be described as short and ugly once you get into Christian era legends.
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04-07-2018, 12:14 PM | #76 |
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Re: Stretching the bounds of typical fantasy races -OR- What makes an elf?
Note that Tolkien covered that with his "elves don't die but fade away" thing. So "modern" elves are usually invisible except possibly to a few unusually Sighted people.
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04-07-2018, 12:23 PM | #77 | |
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Although they always struck me as not nearly alien enough to become the fairies in Jo Walton's Amongst Others, either. |
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