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 Post subject: "Elf" as applied to Elorii
PostPosted: Mon Jun 19, 2017 11:53 am 

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Is the word "elf" used at all in Arcanis? I thought I vaguely recalled it being used as pejorative but can't seem to recall at this point.


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 Post subject: Re: "Elf" as applied to Elorii
PostPosted: Mon Jun 19, 2017 1:09 pm 
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It has not been used in a canon source for many years (likely more than a decade), but players still use it as a pejorative fairly often.

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 Post subject: Re: "Elf" as applied to Elorii
PostPosted: Tue Jun 20, 2017 1:56 am 
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I personally don't use the term except when explaining Arcanis to new people. In-play, if you take it as a pejorative, make sure that the player intends it as such and isn't just new-to-the-setting.

If you need a pejorative term for Elorii, using something like "Knife-Ears" would probably be better and more newbie-friendly. I only bring up newbie-friendliness because at Origins I didn't play a single table outside of the BI without at least one new-to-arcanis player playing a pre-gen, and the Elorii sorcerer seemed to be a super-popular pregen.

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 Post subject: Re: "Elf" as applied to Elorii
PostPosted: Tue Jun 20, 2017 8:39 am 
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Most people like calling the elorii some variation of vampire ("pointy teeth freaks" for example) owing to their rather pronounced canines (see the cover of Arcanis: Roleplaying Game)

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 Post subject: Re: "Elf" as applied to Elorii
PostPosted: Sat Feb 24, 2018 4:05 pm 

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Pardon the necro-threading,

I recall a non-official game where the Elorii took insult to the name "Elf" from the humans that called him that, addressing them with "Why? You do not hear me calling you 'Ape', do you?"

I thought it too hilarious to pass up :lol:

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