Re: Create Helm

On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Daniel Sheff wrote:

> Which doesn't make sense to me.  Yet again, I say, elves are supposed to be
> an old, powerful race.  Why the shrink.  Also, I say again, don't use the
> slow pop. growth on me.  I might smack you.

Off the top of my head:

Elves are an ancient race, one of the oldest races still traveling the
spheres.  No matter what else we think of them, I think we can agree on
that.  As the elves age, they slowy become more and more powerful.  On
their individual worlds, they feel the call to go "elsewhere" to learn and
grow more.  Eventually this leads them into space, where their power
continues to grow.  In space, they reach the pinnacle of mortal elven
power, and come to feel the call to go elsewhere again.  This takes them
to the Planes, where they grow into the Eladrin.

As a race, fewer and fewer elves are being born.  This may or may not have
anything to do with low fertility rates;  it has a lot to do with the fact
that the Eladrin reproduce as well.  Most of the souls that would go to
the Prime Material Plane to be born as elves are instead going to the
Outer Planes to be born as Eladrin.  Eventually, no more elves will be
born, and the race will finally pass from the Prime.

How's that?

Rich Gant