I happenned across the Tel area today (after a bout in the halls...), it's amazing. I love how the trees are down around the castle like that and the bridge going out across them totally fits. What tileset is that? There were a ton downloaded for copap and I haven't been able to search through all of them.
It's a lot closer to a true elvish look from the impression I get when reading about them. The whole wooden planks thing just doesn't seem to fit them. Tolkien made one of his elven cities up in trees and it worked fine, they still had a grand, majestic kind of scope to them but they weren't only up in the trees. It just seems silly to think of an elder being hanging out in his tree-fort. The Tel tileset is nice though, you're up in the trees (well, over) but in a castle type of area and not a tree-fort.
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I love elves so i am just gona talk abit about them 
there are various sorts of elves just like humans, and they are actualy not based on Tolkien but Nordic legends
In legends elves were described very different and all those descriptions founds its way into tolkien and D&D. In some they were small creatures like halflings , in other they were pixi like, and in the norse mythology, they apear as we know them here. Even they conservative attitude seems to be taken from there; while elves exist in norse mythology, they never apear in events and are apparently mentioned in only afew storys.
Those elves that did build Tel are "stone elves".. they are hala specific and i have no idea what they are as there was never a story given to them that i noticed
But all settings are dividet into those 3 groups of some sort: High, Moon, Wood... just going by different names, and all native to a prime matrial world, to a natural world. So i guess stone elves are some sort of mutations if they are ehm really of stone ?
Now all those elves had different building styles, those living in stone building are called in FR or Krynn (not sure now as its some time ago since i did read about them) high elves if i remember right.. they do build stone castles but of a special type, they dont mind stones or other ressources or take it violently. They just collect what ever they find already loose laying around... thats perhaps uneffective and might take to long for a human but they are elves after all
Those living in trees are again different type, they form they dwellings in trees with help of magic.
And then there is the last type that lives nomadic.
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there are various sorts of elves just like humans, and they are actualy not based on Tolkien but Nordic legends
In legends elves were described very different and all those descriptions founds its way into tolkien and D&D. In some they were small creatures like halflings , in other they were pixi like, and in the norse mythology, they apear as we know them here. Even they conservative attitude seems to be taken from there; while elves exist in norse mythology, they never apear in events and are apparently mentioned in only afew storys.Those elves that did build Tel are "stone elves".. they are hala specific and i have no idea what they are as there was never a story given to them that i noticed
But all settings are dividet into those 3 groups of some sort: High, Moon, Wood... just going by different names, and all native to a prime matrial world, to a natural world. So i guess stone elves are some sort of mutations if they are ehm really of stone ?
Now all those elves had different building styles, those living in stone building are called in FR or Krynn (not sure now as its some time ago since i did read about them) high elves if i remember right.. they do build stone castles but of a special type, they dont mind stones or other ressources or take it violently. They just collect what ever they find already loose laying around... thats perhaps uneffective and might take to long for a human but they are elves after all
Those living in trees are again different type, they form they dwellings in trees with help of magic.
And then there is the last type that lives nomadic.
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