Petition: Elven curse.

[drfate786 1690]

Btw, orcs have a strong bloodlust, each time I see an orc he wants to kill something.

[DrakeHaze. 2524]

I break lore with my human character, sue me.

[Cave_Creature 467]

Curses don't improve or add opportunities for roleplay, they just offer reasons to make the races unique. The curse lore is outdated and should be replaced by other 'genesis stories' for the four races, because there's plenty unique about them barring the curses themselves.

[dm420 186]

Honestly I agree with pess, the elven curse makes no sense whatsoever 

[BonesOfTheEarth 2252]

10 hours ago, Sythan said:

 

Fair enough then. My short lived research didn't expand out that far.

 

 

The time spam between children for elves is canon. 

 

Check down at 'Curse'. Words also just state 'she will not be able to have another child', which in my interpretation, is just one kid.

 

**** mayng

[Murdervish 308]

The curses are kind of just OOCly managed as it stands currently, at least in terms of elven and human curses. The elves manage around their curse by just existing without PC parents or "trying really hard", and the humans famously manage their curse by putting "real age 22" in their descriptions.

 

This isn't to say that these things don't affect RP: humans make up for their convenient aging by allowing their characters to be more disposable in RP death events (though there's question about this being "forcing PK" sometimes), and elves place a high importance on family and purity of genealogy with the low birthrate being tasked as the reason. Indeed, the "not being an adult until 50" part for elves does make it unlikely to see pure elf children... because who wants to play a child for an actual year?

 

But the reality still leaks through very overtly: other than the high elves, some elven communities would logically accept half-elves more as they'd be good boosts to their population (1 elf + 1 non-elf = 2x new "elf"; this is probably why Adunians are a thing, in fact), and they're not overly concerned with elves that leave the community for the most part, since they are a dime-a-dozen. And the "disposable" character aspect of human RP has, arguably, more deeply rooted their OOC culture of leadership, as they now base decisions of leadership more on the competence or favorability of the player than the character.

 

Changing the curses is at least something to consider, but perhaps down the line.

[zaezae 1098]

Hi Pess. 

 

The reason that the curse IS relevant to RP is because without the elven curse, elves would out-populate humans by several hundred times by now. 

[Zindran 590]

Moved to The Great Library. It shall be sorted into the appropriate category shortly.

 

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