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07-24-2002, 07:11 AM #21
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Orginally posted by Magian
If elves where to flee who says they would need boats or a navy anyway?
Tuar Annwn is explained in THW as having been relocated to the Shadow World, which is bad for the elves since there are many monsters that prefer them as lunch, like the Cwn Annwn in BS.
@ Birthright-L:
LOL, that´s funny.wotc = wizards of the cash
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07-24-2002, 09:16 PM #22
Yeah I have read all the products printed for Birthright even the comic book but that doesn't mean I have to take that as cannon for my campaign.
Simply put I don't really like the idea of elves in the shadow world and such. Of course I have my reasons just like the writers had their reasons for writing such things.One law, One court, One allied people, One coin, and one tax, is what I shall bring to Cerilia.
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07-24-2002, 09:28 PM #23Orginally posted by geeman
At 05:10 AM 7/22/2002 +0200, Bearcat wrote:
Where in the Tuarhieval sourcebook? It says that elves sprang "from the
union of earth, water, fire, and air" at some "Unknown" time, and that
there are "a dozen different elven creation myths" and it describes the
history of Cerilian elves, but where does it indicate that they originated
in Cerilia? (I could have missed it.)
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07-24-2002, 11:53 PM #24
At 11:28 PM 7/24/2002 +0200, Bearcat wrote:
>I don`t have it with me, but a pond or lake located in Tuarhievel is said
>to be the point of origin of the elves if I am not mistaken.
Ah, OK. I found it. Thanks.
The lake is Dhoenaghmiere, and "one legend holds that this is the site from
where the elven race sprang, a place where earth, water, air, and fire all
converged, sundering the hill when the elves sprang from the elements" p7.
I don`t know that I`d take that reference as proof that elves are native to
Cerilia, though. The same text says that there are "At least a dozen
different elven creation myths" p4. Aside from the text being one of
dozen(s) extant, elves were created 18,000+ years before the present era of
the BR setting, even a long time ago for the immortal elves. Even if elves
did spring into existence at Lake D, that doesn`t mean the act of creating
elves only occurred at that one spot. Different races of elves could have
been created simultaneously on other continents.
Gary
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07-25-2002, 12:06 AM #25
Bearcat:
> I don`t have it with me, but a pond or lake located in
> Tuarhievel is said to be the point of origin of the elves if
> I am not mistaken.
I suspect that the major proponents of that theory are the sidhelien of
Tuarhievel.
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07-25-2002, 12:59 AM #26
> Bearcat wrote:
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> I don`t have it with me, but a pond or lake located in Tuarhievel is
> said to be the point of origin of the elves if I am not mistaken.
I always take this kind of thing with hunk of salt. I would imagine that
there might well be a dozen places where the local elves claim all elvenkind
originated. When it says in the Coullabhie, Rhuannach, and Tuar Annwn
sourcebooks, then you know where elves originated.
I think the PS`s are loaded with boosterism.
Kenneth Gauck
kgauck@mchsi.com
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