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AOL is the most common one for Americans, right?*wince*
Who knows, maybe one day I'll find a use for it... If anything it would be good throwing ammo for an adventurer.Knapping, at best, still sucks. It does increase analytics, which applies to absolutely nothing in the game, but at least you can know in your heart that your adventurer isn't a complete moron.
For the human prickishness/smuggery ... if you haven't encountered it in RL, then you apparently were not sufficiently different from those around you. Trust me, humans typically (though not always consciously) follow the "its different! kill it!" mentality. Individuals may not, but as a whole, that is a pretty accurate description. (Oh, and humans aren't the only species on the planet that behaves that wayOhyeah, army brat here, and any school that wasn't run by the DoD, and therefore fully attended by other army brats, I had to fight someone for respect. The hick towns in particular had that xenophobia -- one school I was blamed for killing a dozen people in a trailer park with a hurricane, using satanic rituals.).
Ya, there are some rare fantasies where the elves are decent.Human prickishness seems a lot more widespread in fiction than I encounter irl, so I suppose if there were rl elves, they wouldn't be as insufferable as the worst depictions make them out to be. A lot of the 'smug asshole' archetype came out of Tolkien, where elves really weren't that different from dwarves, and the Ainur and Maiar were the Ur-role models of smug prickery.
No, and if you look through legends you'll see reports of the Elves eating their enemies.I've seen Legend reports of dwarves 'devouring' their kills, too.
*This statement is based solely upon my personal experiences with reading fantasy novels set in a myriad of different worlds, it seems where there are dwarves, they don't like elves. The dwarves may put up with them for trade, but that is only because dwarves are greedy.Invoked trope, then?
You assume a great deal here.You support my assumptions. You interpret from very little exactly the kind of qualities that justify your hatred. Sort of like the 'cannibalism' claims without any witness to what actually happened -- "Oh, the atrocity of their corpse-eating ways! Vile, unforgivable it is! Unless we get to do it, too, then it's hella cool!"
