Re: Elven Navy

On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Static wrote:

> Greetings all,
> 
> In our last episode, Spike said:
> >Good story......now can you explain how the dwarves, what I would
> >normally consider a non-magical race(not counting the dwarven
> >priests), arrived and established a presence in wildspace.
> 
> 	:) The dwarves have an established presence in wildspace?

Nice.  :>

> 
> 	Seriously though, I think they were just added to put all of
> the PC races in space.  My only reasoning for Dwarves... In... SPACE...
> is that they originated from metal/mineral poor worlds.  Maybe one day
> a meteor came down, and they realized that there were more resources
> to be had on the surface and in space.  The arcane probably took advantage
> of the situation, and created some magical forges to help them get around.
> They caught the dwarves in a moment of weakness, and helped them get
> spacebourne.  (Hmm... The arcane could have had something to do with
> that meteor coming down.)

I would actually disagree here.  It seems to me that Dwarves and Elves 
have always been involved in a somewhat less-than-friendly competition.  
I think that as soon as the Dwarves found out the Elves were flying 
around "up" there, they immediately began to solve the problem of 
'jamming themselves.  Why sit idly by while the Elves plunder the worlds' 
resources?  The Dwarves would have felt they had as much right (or 
actually probably more) to them as the Elves did!  Oh yeah, and just to 
let you know, this is a biased opinion.  Besides the really cool races 
like Scro, Half-ogres, Half-orcs, etc..Dwarves are one of my favorites.  
Who needs the Dandelion-eaters around anyway?

> 	I also think that the number of citadels out there numbers less
> than one hundred.  To me that doesn't count as an "established presence".
> Each citadel is its own "nation", and comunication between them is 
> limited.

hmmm...probably right about this, depending on the campaign setting and 
the dominance of the Dwarven race therein.  Citadels are BIG, and I can't 
imagine there's some kind of "assembly line" operation churning them out 
somewhere.  Plus the fact that after the forges have used up all the 
creative material in the citadel, it burns out and another citadel has to 
be created.  Kind of limits the number of citadels out there by sheer 
atrition.

> -Static

Alway's enjoy your comments Static.

--Grimwulf