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[Poll] Elves

What kind of Elf do you prefer?

  • Hyrulean Elves (from Zelda)

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  • Sun Elves (from Faerun)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Avariel (from Faerun)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Qualinesti Elves (from Krynn)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Silvanesti Elves (from Krynn)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Kagonesti Elves (from Krynn)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Wolfriders (from Elfquest)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Myreth Elves (from Accordlands)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Witcher Elves (from Witcher)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • High Elves (from Azeroth)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Blood Elves (from Azeroth)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Void Elves (from Azeroth)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Svartálfar (from Svartalheim/ MCU)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Alfar (from Alfheim/ MCU)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Tir Tairngire/ Sinsearach Elves (from Shadowrun)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Tír na nÓg Elves (from Shadowrun)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Earthdawn Elves (from Earthdawn)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Ogier (from Wheel of Time)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Llanowar Elves (from Dominaria)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Arcanum Elves

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    54

Reinhardt

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not disgusting anime elf boobs
Oh, right, you are kwanzanian. Here -

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Jason Liang

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Are somewhere out there any undead evles? Or vampire elves?
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An entire novel about an undead elf. Also, Lord Soth's banshee harem are undead elves.

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Kesselring from Rance X.

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Zombie Elf from Rance 01.

Plenty of Ghost/ Undead/ Vampire/Lich elves in the Accordlands setting (Larisnar/ Myreth Elves).
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This poll isn't nearly gay enough. It's missing Bethesda's Tamriel elves, or Tamrielves.
Seems like garden variety Faerun elves to me. What are the differences?
Oh boy.

The TES lore is actually good, pity it never gets properly represented ingame. But about the TES elves, "Mer":

Bosmer "forest elfs": Cannibals
Ayleids, daedra worshipping "High Elves" that enslaved millions of humans and commited all kind of fucked up decadent shit (think flesh sculptures and gut gardens). Got rightfully erradicated.
Dwemmer, deep elves that are essentially steampunk elves with Mesopotamian beards
And all the other genocidal, enslaving, eugenicists cunts.
 

KateMicucci

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Best elves are from Norse mythology. Second best elves are cosmic horror elves of folklore, who might help you on a whim but generally seem to be sociopaths with alien priorities living in an overlapping world operating under completely different rules.
Yes, exactly. I like elves who are Tolkeinish in that they are tall, beautiful and Nordic (Tolkien elves don't even have pointy ears), but I also like when they're maybe a little bit evil, like Melniboneans. I like when they're separated from the mortal world with magical defenses, or time works differently where they live. Maybe they kidnap humans for some reason, replace them with changelings and take them back to elf-land.

I like when elves are "alien" but not when they LOOK like aliens. They should be universally good looking.

I think a lot of the hate for elves comes from D&D depictions of them as short, skinny pussies who hug trees. I hate that shit too. D&D is probably responsible for a lot of that, because elves and other magical races like dwarves and gnomes had to be "balanced" with humans, so all the cool shit about them was watered down. Elves and other magical races should be far superior to humans, except that they don't have souls.
 

Jason Liang

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Best elves are from Norse mythology. Second best elves are cosmic horror elves of folklore, who might help you on a whim but generally seem to be sociopaths with alien priorities living in an overlapping world operating under completely different rules.
Yes, exactly. I like elves who are Tolkeinish in that they are tall, beautiful and Nordic (Tolkien elves don't even have pointy ears), but I also like when they're maybe a little bit evil, like Melniboneans. I like when they're separated from the mortal world with magical defenses, or time works differently where they live. Maybe they kidnap humans for some reason, replace them with changelings and take them back to elf-land.

I like when elves are "alien" but not when they LOOK like aliens. They should be universally good looking.

I think a lot of the hate for elves comes from D&D depictions of them as short, skinny pussies who hug trees. I hate that shit too. D&D is probably responsible for a lot of that, because elves and other magical races like dwarves and gnomes had to be "balanced" with humans, so all the cool shit about them was watered down. Elves and other magical races should be far superior to humans, except that they don't have souls.
Ironically, I made a NWN module where only elves have souls (since in the setting elves have dragon blood that gives them soul, allowing them to learn sorcery). Humans and dwarves were created as a servant/ slave race to the elves, and do not have souls.
 

Koschey

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By my count this will be the fifth post voting for dead elves. Clearly this poll is incomplete.
 

Zed Duke of Banville

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I think a lot of the hate for elves comes from D&D depictions of them as short, skinny pussies who hug trees. I hate that shit too. D&D is probably responsible for a lot of that, because elves and other magical races like dwarves and gnomes had to be "balanced" with humans, so all the cool shit about them was watered down. Elves and other magical races should be far superior to humans, except that they don't have souls.
You might prefer Gerald Brom's depictions of elves to those made by other TSR artists:

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