Redesigning Elves - An Uber-Nerdy World-Building Exercise
My first attempt at creating elves did not go according to plan. I love fantasy as a genre. Which is odd to say on introspection, because the amount of fantasy literature, films and games that I have indulged in and am genuinely fond of is rather limited. It's basically limited to these options... Literature : Discworld and The Malazan Book of the Fallen series, The Hobbit and Mogworld. Films : The Lord of The Rings trilogy and the made-for-Netflix film Bright. Don't judge me, dammit, I likes what I likes. Video Games : The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Dragon's Dogma, Darkest Dungeon, Bastion, The Battle for Middle Earth II and Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. Wow, I might play too many video games. You'll notice that most of Tolkien's literary works are missing from the literature section. You'll also notice that no direct Dungeons & Dragons product is in there at all, aside from the IP that was directly inspired by it (which to be fair, is a lo