Quote Originally Posted by Vicente View Post

If you read Rhuobhe BR stat sheet, he already has several evocations (magic missile, lightning bolt, ice storm), conjurations (conjure elemental, prismatic spray), necromancies (chill touch, animate dead),... So he is not very elven like in that front. Also, he has Contact other plane and Dismissal, both spells related to creatures from other planes and the stat sheet says:

"It is said that he regulary consorts with creatures from the nether planes, binding them to his bidding and learning arcane secrets from them".

So there you have where he has got all those spells (and even if elves don't like those magics, probably they have researched them).
Or (a better explanation in my opinion) is that there was an inconsistency (yet another one) in the original material and the things on his stat sheet needs "adjusting" to match follow on material (like BoM, Blood Spawn,etc.)

IMO elven use of invocation/evocations are "limited" and basically anything that would cause damage to the forests would be considered sacrilige (pretty much anything with a "fire" descriptor) - magic missile, IMO, is fine to know due to it being a low level spell and very unlikely at causing any collateral damage to the forest.


I agree that's a bad idea, he can only be in so many places at the same time. But I continue thinking he could be causing far more trouble than he is.

"Causing" trouble is different than having his influence spreading. IMO he probably is constantly causing trouble via standard elven tactics (i.e., guerralla warfare style) but this does not result in any net increase of his influence. He was a great elven general after all and led the Gheallie Sidhe.
I also think that his chief rival and check is the Gorgon and not the other realms around.