[HQ Ignorance] Elvishness and rootlessness

[Sam Elliot]

Okay, thanks.
I don´t mean to whinge so, but I´d not really looked at elves much before. I like the whole idea that they are plants and so on but I think a bit of a trick was missed in not making them more plant-like. I´d rather they were predominantly monoecious (hermaphrodite), had a genuine reason to produce flowers and seeds, produced many many seeds of which only a few would survive to become other elves, had masting years where they were absolutely laden with fruits, produced runners and suckers, rhizomes, had mycorrhizae and endophytic fungi. Just....more like plants.
  Sam.

Lev Lafayette <lev_lafayette at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
  
I'd rule that they'd be sleepy, but not asleep for the
entire period. Deciduous trees still need tending even
in the depth of winter.

--- Sam Elliot wrote:

> ...and I´d really rather a deciduous (brown) elf but
> they go to sleep for half the year! 
> 
> Sheesh...monoecious by all means, makes them quite
> alien (I don´t like the fact that they are male or
> female, makes them much less planty to me) but
> asleep?
> 
> Harrumph!
> 
> Sam.
> 
> Sam Elliot wrote:
> Thanks very much for this Nic, very helpful. I
> had forgotten about the released fetish business. 
> 
> Re [1], I assume you mean hsunchen rather than
> beastman, or has a beastman slipped in without my
> noticing? I´m actually thinking a centaur could make
> a lot of sense, although it distort the character
> somewhat (mostly in terms of who gets addressed
> first - the big one). I like Mike Dawson´s take:
>
http://glorantha.temppeli.org/digest/nbelldigest/1991.01/0223.html
> 
> Sam.
> p.s. Inspiration is yet to strike and have me sort
> this properly. apologies for that. I have now seen
> some elvish keywords which helps.
> 
> 
> Nic Hughes wrote:
> the un-penalised spirit abilities when outside
> woodland, then have a non-elf[1] follower to look
> after her more mundane problems whilst traveling.
> [1] We could even sneak another beast-man in through
> the back door! More practically I would think the
> Aldryami would have some human allies/hirelings.
> 
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