[HQ Ignorance] Elvishness

[Nic Hughes]

I think an elf is supposed to be a bit like  fish out of water when not 
in a forest, its along the same lines as playing a nomad when separated 
from their mount.

However - to throw an idea in - there could be specialist spirits or 
magics that render a marked area ritually as woodland to offset the 
penalties. That fits quite well with the forest-spreaders idea if a 
side-effect of the ritual is to make each such area more likely to see a 
forest outbreak at some stage due to a mythic connection to the Great 
Forest, perhaps on a complete success you actually get the Woodland 
bonus - and unknown to anyone else that spot becomes a place of future 
forest growth. So just set out your special living twigs and within the 
marked area 'Presto!' you feel and function OK.

In a similar vein I think that only the Iron Mostali would not usually 
suffer crippling agoraphobia when outside their underground cities.

Nic

Sam Elliot wrote:
> Lev, I´m wrestling with some of the rules aspects of elvishness before 
> I can really make the character. My main concern at the moment is the 
> generic -10 penalty for elves when outside a forest. I was actually 
> toying with the idea of a dryad rather than an elf and that´d be a 
> worse situation.
>  
> What I figured was that if the Lunars can have a breeding programme 
> and produce the likes of JarEel then the Aldryami most certainly can. 
> So, I was thinking of making something which isn´t quite an elf, isn´t 
> quite a dryad, but is a special plant produced for special 
> circumstances. I think the main purpose of such constructs would be to 
> sneak around planting those forests which are about to spring up 
> everywhere. Not in the case of this plant, mind. More of a witch queen 
> type.
>  
> If I do this, I might give her Talents like a dryad has rather than 
> tie her to animism, essence or whatever. Unfortunately (in this 
> instance), I am a biologist so I might get a bit involved with making 
> it make biological sense.
>  
> Can you tell me if that´d be okay please?
>  
> Ta.
>  
> Sam.
>  
> p.s. I was thinking she´d have "Leaves Blossoms Behind her Wherever 
> She Goes" as an ability. This´d allow Mark´s Belveren to follow her 
> and get fresh materials for her sacrifices for free...(we had a whole 
> long Get-a-Belveren-to-heal-all-the-chaos-plants (incl. dryads) 
> heroquest thing in our game, BTW.)
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