Elves as "closer to nature and lower-tech" - give them a revulsion to metal?

RyanW · 11-11-2020, 09:55 PM

Just an idea to throw out, but perhaps the elven way of doing a lot of things is really slow. Elves don't work metals at all (my first thought was that metalworking slowly poisons an elf's connection with nature magic), but they have ways of inducing trees to produce woods with a wide range of properties. Need a building? Grow a tree in the shape you need. Need a sword? Make a tree grow a super dense branch in the appropriate shape. It takes decades, but what are decades to an elf?

11-11-2020, 09:55 PM	#17
RyanW ☣ Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Southeast NC	Re: Elves as "closer to nature and lower-tech" - give them a revulsion to metal? Just an idea to throw out, but perhaps the elven way of doing a lot of things is really slow. Elves don't work metals at all (my first thought was that metalworking slowly poisons an elf's connection with nature magic), but they have ways of inducing trees to produce woods with a wide range of properties. Need a building? Grow a tree in the shape you need. Need a sword? Make a tree grow a super dense branch in the appropriate shape. It takes decades, but what are decades to an elf? __________________ RyanW - Actually one normal sized guy in three tiny trenchcoats.