Re: Some random thoughts

>From: Richard Gant <richard_gant@???????.com>
>
>So, we all know that elves live a long, long time.

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>Could there also be vastly militaristic societies of Goblinoids, honed by
>the unnatural selection of genocidal warfare, skilled and organized beyond
>the dreams of the Scro?  Societies who have never known anything but
>endless
>warfare with the vast might of the Elven Imperial Fleets?
>

Excellent point.  There could also be even more militarized societies of
elves, cut off from the rest of the elven fleets and forced to become razor
sharp in the same way the goblinoids you describe above would become.  Such
a fleet is a core element of my main campaign - a huge fleet of extremely
paranoid, very mitarized elves.  They grew from a fleet of refugees that
fled the destruction of thier world during the first unhuman wars.  It is
also possible that the first unhuman war started long before the commonly
accepted date, and only made it's way into known space at a relatively late
date.  This is also so in my own campaign, because the elves in my campaign
fled their homeworld in "normal" spelljamming space and went to another,
slightly different region, several elven generations ago (I don't have the
timeline handy but I think it was in the billions of years, one or two
billion.)  The first wars had to reach their homeworld long before they
reached known space because these elves have only recently "discovered"
known space, and started sending spies to Fearun, Oerth, and Kyrnn to study
them and decide whether it is worth re-establishing ties with the elves
there.  And the timeline when this contact is established is the current
date, so I had to make the unhuman wars start ages and ages before the
commonly accepted date for their start.

These elves built a planet sized elven paradise and refuge, kind of like a
world sized version of Evermeet, in what is kind of like another galaxy,
that is made up of standard pholgiston containing crystal spheres that are
very similar, but with slightly different characteristics.  The major
difference is that if you possess the right magics you can remain in the
pholgiston right until you are next to a planet, instead of having to leave
it at the crystal sphere.  Arcane are also abhored and killed on sight in
most parts of this region.  Helms are made other ways, and usually are made
by the elves or thier allies.  They try to control the magics to make helms
like governments here on earth try to control the technology to make nuclear
bombs.  Think of elves with diety-like magics that are primarily focused on
not only the traditional eleven pursits, but also on the defensive and
offensive aspects of warfare.  And several "degenerate" groups of elves
scattered throughout thier realm of influence that are actually on an equal
footing with the standard AD&d elves magic-wise.

Anyway, very cool idea, it meshes with what I have perfectly.  Think of the
unhuman wars as something that has been going on for as long as all races
can remember, but it sweeps through certain regions at certain times, then
dies out.  So from the perspective on a certain place, like known space,
there has been two unhuman wars.  In reality it is one war that has lasted
eons, but it has swept thoruhg known space twice in that region's recorded
history.

- Coyote, the Desert Dog

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