@@ -28,7 +28,11 @@ Dwarves, they say, can ferment anything -- living oozes, fungi, goblins.
All live underground eventually converts to light.%
\footnote{If it lives, it can die. When it dies, it rots. If it rots, you can burn it.}
Commonly, dwarvish tunnels to the outside will end in a gnome-warren. Direct contact with the outside world, opening into a forest or plain, is seen as `letting the sun in', and generally frowned upon, but if the dwarvish tunnel ends in a gnomish village and those gnomes happen to let the sun in, well -- that's their business.
Commonly, dwarvish tunnels to the outside will end in a gnome-warren.
Direct contact with the outside world, opening into a forest or plain, is seen as `letting the sun in',%
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\ignorespaces\footnote{This is basically the \gls{edge} as far as the dwarves are concerned.}}{}
and generally frowned upon, but if the dwarvish tunnel ends in a gnomish village and those gnomes happen to let the sun in, well -- that's \emph{their} business.
This persistent crossing of paths means that the dwarvish and gnomish languages are very similar, and patient speakers of one can mostly understand the other.
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Travelling elves often take griffins as their mounts. Rather than capture and tame them, they are expected, through natural magical talent, to instantly befriend them and leave them when the journey is over. The human method of keeping animals in a long-term manner, who then cannot fend for themselves is considered clumsy at best and cruel at worst. Elves pick up what they need as they go and discard it just as quickly.
Very few elves have much to do with iron. They use short bows, spears and daggers to hunt, all made from flint, wood or animal bone. Some use leather armour for protection but in general, since elves use weapons for hunting rather than warfare, they do not use armour at all.
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Southern elves (often called 'snow elves') around Eastlake and Whiteplains generally live without metal of any sort, preferring spears made of wood and flint, or simply use magic.
Those in Quennome feel more at home with the constant influx of foreign goods, and often wander through cities, happily trading wares, and even purchasing raw irons to use for the rare elven blacksmiths back home.
Whatever the case, any travelling elf will know how to use a weapon, as they all live beyond the \gls{edge} (at least as far as humans are concerned).
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Very few elves have much to do with iron.
They use short bows, spears and daggers to hunt, all made from flint, wood or animal bone.
Some use leather armour for protection but in general, since elves use weapons for hunting rather than warfare, they do not use armour at all.
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Elves live for long years -- sometimes up to a millennium -- and as a result become skilled artisans.
Most of this time is often spent simply lounging about, but if they bother even once in five years to make an artistic piece then the forest is soon peppered with little artistic pieces.
