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DF Suggestions / Re: Magic as an elf unique thing
« on: February 02, 2024, 08:44:39 am »
PS: I don't get the declining old race trope. Where did that start? I really want to know.
Tolkien, I guess? In Lord of the Rings the elves had their time in the past and now it's the time of humans, and by the ends of the books the Elves are straight-up leaving because it's time to leave. I'm not sure if it showed up anywhere before that.
I wonder if it is some collective memory from the fall of the roman empire. I think their monuments hugely influenced the advanced old race trope.