not to kick off a make up an elf blog but, thinking about dunmeshi elves and it would be cool if elves were born of anyone when a wizard had broken the laws of nature and was fated to restore the balance. just sayin.
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in reply to @Scampir's post:
this is making me imagine a scenario where the existence of elves restores balance implicitly, rather than through any kind of fate - wizards using their spells release magic into the atmosphere, and exposure to sufficient levels of magic causes a fetus to develop into an elf. throughout their life, an elf's physiology will cause them to absorb some amount of ambient magic in from their surroundings1, bringing things back down to some kind of baseline normal.
I guess that then begs a bunch of follow up questions around how prevalent elves are2, how society views them, what the experience of being an elf vs a non-elf in society is like, etc etc etc
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perhaps their bodies are capable of processing it in a way non-elves' bodies are not?
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this would have to depend on how prevalent wizards are in this scenario, but I guess I'm really getting at the circumstances under this society's baseline view of a "normal" amount of wizards/magic
I think it's definitely some kind of strange reverence later in life, with a kind of pity for them as children. Here is someone who will live alongside generations of their community to stop a wizard and future wizards who would do wrong.