[He was under some assumption there were other elves out there, and that it would probably benefit to be specific.]
A race once immortal and gifted with magic, fallen to wind up as slaves and servants, or misguided nomads trying to form a culture from scraps they do not understand.
A human kingdom, Tevinter enslaves a number of my people, others willingly flock to work as servants to escape the poverty they suffer in the alienages they are forced to reside in.
[But that was neither here nor there now he supposed.]
Hopefully this world does not try to take a similar approach.
With any luck they will think little of us in terms of our appearances.
[He regarded the other curiously after. He was hoping that there would not be situations like Thedas, and yet couldn't bring himself to be hopeful about it.]
Have elves faced similar injustices in your world?
[ He cracks his knuckles. He'll kill anyone who tries to drag him back to that depraved state. Without question, without hesitation.
But he shakes his head at the question. ]
My people bow to no one. But their numbers were cut to the bone by a terrible army of the dead, and many of us were raised to fight in that army's service. We have largely broken free.
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The elves- of Thedas specifically.
[He was under some assumption there were other elves out there, and that it would probably benefit to be specific.]
A race once immortal and gifted with magic, fallen to wind up as slaves and servants, or misguided nomads trying to form a culture from scraps they do not understand.
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Slaves and servants? To whom?
[ Was it a godlike entity of death and destruction? Weak if not. ]
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[But that was neither here nor there now he supposed.]
Hopefully this world does not try to take a similar approach.
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I will never be enslaved again.
[ That said ... ]
But this world seems to know little of elves. I have seen but a few since my time here, and none of them native.
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[He regarded the other curiously after. He was hoping that there would not be situations like Thedas, and yet couldn't bring himself to be hopeful about it.]
Have elves faced similar injustices in your world?
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[ He cracks his knuckles. He'll kill anyone who tries to drag him back to that depraved state. Without question, without hesitation.
But he shakes his head at the question. ]
My people bow to no one. But their numbers were cut to the bone by a terrible army of the dead, and many of us were raised to fight in that army's service. We have largely broken free.