Elven Culture

[Havard]

Off ye old top of me pate:

In FFC Blackmoor, elves were tech savy - hence the fire hoses thing.

I never liked how the d20 Blackmoor made the mechanical horse an elven creation, but I guess you are right that there is a precedence for that. Of course, FFC Blackmoor has tech all over the place, but at least this shows that elves aren't more averse to technology than humans or dwarves.

Wesely played a "half-Elf" a few times and he told me that elves were freely sexually promiscuous in nature, but looked down on cross species offspring. Any Half elf born would be immediately given to the non elven parent to raise.

Wesely also related a story where the object of the adventure was to rescue an elven princess name "Lotsa" from Blackmoor dungeon. The reward for doing so was Lotsa's hand in "marraige" for one day.

This is brilliant! Thank you so much for sharing.
Puns aside, I think it is really interesting to hear this first reference to a named elven princess. The attitude towards half-elves is also interesting. Half-elves are also a topic in the d20 DAB sourcebook, but IIRC this negative attitude from the elven family is not mentioned. This ties in a bit to the Gyrandirum Goss thread since Raddam Goss was a half-elf who clearly used the name of his elven parents. We don't know whether that was accepted by them or not of course.

Also there's a fair amount of info on elves in Arnesons "izmer" write up.

Yeah, worth looking into more. He specifically compared those elves to the Westryn IIRC.

-Havard