Let's talk about Water Elves

Let's talk about Water Elves.

I’m sad that I can’t drown them.

I have Sea Elves in my campaign world. They're the elves that stayed behind when elfin Atlantis sank beneath the ocean. They hate all other kinds of elves for abandoning their homeland. They consider themselves the one true elfin people. The other kinds of elves consider Sea Elves dead things that haunt the ruins of their former kingdom. There is credence to this since Sea Elves bleed water and eventually degenerate into Sea Devils or Sahuagin.

Water Elves? You don't know what elves are?

i will fucking kill you

Dammit, Carlos.

you fucking triple naga

>Water Elves

>Hey look they're elves, except these ones live in the water!

This is why I fucking hate elves, and elf-lovers like you. You have this whole new world to create fantastical creatures to interact with, and what do you do? Fifteen fucking flavors of elf. You uncreative, lazy PHILISTINES. Explain to me how an elf fits in an undersea environment. Fucking explain to me what makes water elves different from elf elves. Oh, nothing except for the fact that they live in the water? Okay. So they're JUST A FUCKING ELF. Why do you have to have a special super different type of elf just because their kingdom is in a different environment? No one else feels the need to have a whole fucking subrace for every variation. Oh, my character is an X. Here's their origin. Done. But ooooh noooo, I'm not just playing an elf from the forest. No, see, they're a Wood Elf, which means they're special-er than if I had just called them an elf and had their backstory involve living in a forest town.

And now, in this thread, you take the most open-ended setting for creature design, an ocean, the place where bizarre translucent shit and mammals the size of freight trains exist, and your idea of a fitting race isn't a unique sentient octopus or some kind of tribe of mermaids pulling from folklore. Oh no, you just transplant your fucking knife-ears and slap the word water in front of them.

>Water elf
>Wood elf
>High elf
>Dark elf

These are just ELVES. No one describes "sand humans" or "grass halflings" or "low orcs". Why the fuck do you people get a pass for this? Christ Almighty, you faggots are worse than Space Marine autists talking about how every one of the 8000 chapters of identical space knight is soooooooo unique.

Fuck you. Just fuck you six ways 'til Tuesday.

Is this really anything to get upset about?

People like elves. It's not about being uncreative or lazy, it's having fun and tying into the original lore, with there being light and dark elves in Norse mythology, which Tolkien also expanded with his own varieties of elves, including the Sea-elves, the Teleri.

>These are just ELVES. No one describes "sand humans"

In a way, we do have "nomad people" or "island people" and "desert people", and while we call some of them Mongolians and Polynesians and Arabs, it wouldn't really be too strange for someone to poetically call them something simpler and more descriptive. I mean, when it comes down to it, Polynesians are basically being called "Many Island People".

Would it be so strange to talk about Island Elves?