>Elves mature at roughly the same rate as humans, though they are not usually considered past adolescence until they reach 110 years of age.
WTF. So an Elvish mother could have a child every two years for a couple of hundred years?
What's to stop massive Elvish dynasties from forming?
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No one wants to raise children that remain children for 110 years.
Elves have a lot in common with pandas
>girlmarks on that grill
>All that skin damage.
She's gonna look like beef jerkey by 35
All the better for chewing.
Freckles aren't skin damage. They are just uneven pigment distribution.
Elven gestation is 5 years, according to the Book of Erotic Fantasy. And it probably takes a lot out of them, especially since elves don't usually have what you'd call child-bearing hips.
Why would elves form dynasties?
they become prominent with exposure to sunlight
They are not that furry and they don't eat bamboo.
>don't eat bamboo
That is likely bullshit. If an elf lived where bamboo grew they would probably eat it
When you were a kid, did you want to be an astronaut or a fireman or a doctor - someone who really made a difference in the world? Maybe you'd grow up to be a rockstar or you'd learn how to fly a plane.
To form merchant empires?
kek
Usual reasoning is that they just don't reproduce very often because whatever, but yeah, it doesn't make much sense.
Even humans eat bamboo (seedlings that are nice and tender great for soups and hotpots) so why wouldn't elves too?
Also you forget that elves have subraces and they have distinct behaviours and diets:
High elves - pompous vegan fagots who are some weird mix of French and Japanese.
Wood elves - Huntsmann the race , look they even got increased movement speed so they are even better at running shit to death than humans, will eat anything or anyone edible.
Drowning - will eat what their dominatrix goddess tells them to eat.
They occur whether you slather on sunscreen or not.
Source: family has the ginger curse
What? No, it all depends on the individual canons of whatever you are reading/playing.
For instance, I remember reading that Drizzt was a young adult at 30. Very young, the equivalent of 18 in the U.S. But still an adult.
That's when he ran away from home, and it took him another 30 years to eventually make his way to the surface. So when he met Bruenor for the first time he was roughly 60 or so years old. And officially an adult by any elvish standards.
Low birth rate
Forget where I saw it, but theres a short comic about an elf girl who slept with a human when she was very young (elven equivalent of "16 and pregnant"). Comic centers on her half-elf son, now a grown man in his 30s, dealing with his "airheaded teen girl" of a mother. (pic not related)
Sounds like we need Gilmore Girls with an elf and her half elf kid.
In warhammer elves Mature about the same way humans do up until their late teens. Tyrion was already fucking bitche's and fighting greater daemons by 16, and one of the humans he ran into said he couldn't tell how old he was or differentiate between teenage elves and those who were several centuries old. Until they hit about a thousand years or more of age, most elves look the same. At that point only other elves can really tell age differences and it's more due to subtle clues than physical appearance. Only the truly ancient elves start to become Decrepid, like Hellebron who is several thousand years old
Having 50 kids back to back can't be good for your health.
Also 50 kids, that's a lot of wet nurses and baby sitters.
>WTF. So an first-world Human mother could have a child every two years for a 50 years?
>What's to stop massive Whiteh dynasties from forming?
Some post the elven menstrual cycle thing.
Elves are relatively helpless for the first year of life. They grow quickly, achieving the same size as a 3 year old human with much less body fat at that time but moving and reacting to very little.
From the ages of 1 to 20, they are hardly more than animals and they act and react in much the same way. At this time they are placed in a creche with others close to their age; they truly are animalistic, almost like cats or dogs at this time in their lives, reaching near-primate levels of animalism around 16-20 years. Their rapid growth continues and they are trained to care for themselves. Elven biology tends to be 'cleaner' than human biology where excretions are concerned, but they do tend to get sick from other reasons fairly often. At the end of this time they are usually the same size as an average human teen, though often more slender.
During the next five years of life they become more sapient, develop slight secondary sexual characteristics, and less devoted to a pack mentality. They spend long periods of time sitting still as their brains adjust to new sensory input that their new sapience can now categorize beyond food, water, comfort, and other basic needs. Often they will show aptitudes towards magic or warfare at this time.
For the next 75 years, they must be taught, repeatedly and with effort. Their minds are alien, a mixture of seemingly autistic behaviors and animalistic reactions. They are sapient at this point, but their thought processes are still evolving, and are often at odds with the things they are being taught.Their senses are in disarray, as their brains learn to differentiate between types of sensations as well as the correct interpretation of what they are sensing. Fortunately their instinctive understanding of sylvan makes it possible to teach them. They can learn, and do learn, though they rarely demonstrate any capacity with what they have learned, instead retaining the knowledge subconsciously, to be used when they mature.
Along the same lines
things that live for hundreds, or thousands of years, don't find it that imperative to start fucking and having children to carry on your legacy.
read: vampires don't usually create tons of vampires
tortises don't usually breed too often either
there could be a connection or at least correlation between their sensitivity to magic and their perceived frigidity. or maybe focusing their energies of love towards the ethereal rather than the material.
Her Wizards sleeve.
At approximately the age of 100-110, the elven child become truly self aware, as well as aware of others as individuals who are also self aware. They are much lie human teenagers in thought process, and their seual charateristics are fully developed. At this time they can use those skills and abilities they have been taught, and often settle into their role in life quiet easily. Those that become adventurers do so during this time, since they are now capable of learning in a more commonly accepted and understandable manner.
Obviously, the creches of elven children are very well protected and their unusual behavior during their childhood is kept hidden from other races. It is commonly accepted that this period of elven life is a reflection on the evolution of their entire species.
Typical human reasoning. Elves aren't into gold, what would they do with it?
That used to be a thing. My great-great-grandfather had 12 kids, and my great-grandfather 10. Rich family (European white catholic) owning a large industry (by then standards). Many house employees obviously.
>what would they do with it?
Build temples with it?
Gold is easy to keep pure and is a great conduit. Maybe elves have more practical uses for gold instead of just lusting over it for emotional reasons
>Elves mature at roughly the same rate as humans,
Bad idea generally. Gygax had the right of it.
Not him, but i wanted to grow up to be a captain planet villain. Or hexxus.
Which setting, OP?
>What's to stop massive Elvish dynasties from forming?
Elves are far too full of themselves and their own petty problems to raise families.
I remember playing Neverwinter Nights 2 as a young 120 years old elf leaving his village, it felt pretty weird
Elves are absurdly slow learners
We must teach them.
- Elves lose fertility after the first baby or two.
- Elves have to petition the Queen for the right to conceive, and her job is to maintain the status quo between houses.
- Because of the pact between Fey and Hell, one elf soul is claimed by Lucifer for every new one born.
- They only have sex once.
- A wizard did it.
Any of these reasons would be acceptable solutions for OP's plot hole. How you write the rules for your imaginary fairies is up to you and the narrative you're trying to tell.
>Elves lose fertility after the first baby or two.
>An elf is born with a genetic mutation causing her to be hyper-fertile
>You are that elf
>elves practice strict eugenics to maintain their racial superiority, and thus only a very small number are allowed to breed with other elves. The remainder can either hook up with humans or other races, or just get permacucked.
Lore balance reasons. So let's say D&D
Okay let's say an elf at 20 years old is in a party with humans the same age at level 1. So let's say it takes 1 year to gain one level. (I know this is BS but work with me). So this party makes it to level 20. Now they're all in their 40s. Some of the humans are getting older and the non spell casters probably lost a point in important stats. But the elf is still fit as a fiddle. Now at 40 years the party has 13 years left of adventuring before a huge penalty befalls on the non casters. The elf on the other hand at 43 has 132 years before any stats begin to occur.
If every elf started their adventures the same time humans did. It'll probably end with the elves ruling the world since they can live for so long and gain power at a very young age.
Drow have a shorter lifespan than normal elves because of all the backstabbing, so they're considered mature earlier.
Because if they do now the government says its racist and you have to meet a diversity quota
Meanwhile in Baldur's Gate, the protagonist is in his early 20s even if he's an elf.
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