Was “Mehigible and the Seas”
KirbyRanma@aol.com wrote:
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> In a message dated 98-06-09 09:39:25 EDT, you write:
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> > you guessed it, Sea Elves! >>
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> I would personally hate to see sea elves develop. I think they were
> somewhat overdone in Dragonlance, but that may have been where their calling
> was. Off-hand, I don’t recall another campaign setting that uses them that
> all the players would know of the sea elves (I’m not familiar enough with FR
> to know if they do or do not), but I don’t recall them in Greyhawk or
> Planescape. I know they are not in Ravenloft and Dark Sun is right out. If
> we used sea elves, how “medieval” would they be? I don’t see them as needing
> castles per se, but domes should be hard to build underwater. Also, if they
> do exist, who is their racial enemy? Kuo-toa?
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—Sauhgin?—
Acording to the Big Book of Elves these are thier main enemies along
with sharks (who love Sea Elf, for dinner that is).Crabmen? There
> would have to be enough of an enemy so the elves wouldn’t have a monopoly in
> the oceans. Granted the Krakken, Leviathan and Sea Drake would eat them up
> yum, as if they were fish-heads, but the PCs wouldn’t stand a chance against
> any of them. To make the fighting arena equal, you’d have to helms of
> underwater breathing, rings of free action, etc and then you’ve just upped the
> magic quantity level.
> As far as the “land” or body of water is concerned, how would you divide
> them up into provinces? Would you just do by water body type or by depth?
Use the martitime areas and make geographial features to match.
> Would the land/source values matter since you couldn’t build any holdings in
> the water (no new holdings “dock,” “port,” or “peir” please)
Law, Guilds, and Sources would exist underwater (elves don’t have gods
so..). NOt exactly the same as we see them on land but made out of
coral.
What exactly
> would consist of a realm spell and would you really want a whole bunch of new
> water-based spells coming your way when in an armada? If two navies fought,
> the first one to cast “Tsunami” would probably win, unless the other cast
> “Whirlpool” first and then they mutually destroyed themselves.
The Story of BR Sea Elves
by AO (me)
A long time ago all the elves lived on the land and in the forests.
Some wonder why very few elves go to the sea. This is because all the
elves who liked water left thier forest copanions and went to live in
the sea. They slowly adapted to the water. THey lived in the water and
fought the sea cousins of land elves. When the humans came to Cerillia
and chased the elves back into the deepest forests and despoiled the
land, the sea elves knew that they must remain hidden to make sure that
they don’t befall the same fate as land elves.
Although sea elves typically swim with and help ships, the sea elves of
Cerillia are far too afraid of humans to do so. Even thoguh they know
humans are not suited to the water, they fear the humans could find a
way.
Very few sea elves are blooded (.00001%). THe ones that are disguised
themselves as land elves and fought on the side of goodness at Desimar
mostly near ?Masia.
Most of thier realm spells are underwater spells and do not even affect
the surface of the sea.
The sea elves long to help thier landbound cousins but are very weak on
land.
Well thats my story, based on the Complete Book of Elves.
