Moon Elf family who doesn’t reclusively keep to the deep forests going to be more “humany” than a Moon family from Evereska?
— 🌈Jaye🦄Em🌹Edgecliff🏳️🌈 (@jayeedgecliff) February 24, 2019
Like humans, elves (and dwarves) seem to have an innate pride/stubbornness that the more flexible (hence, blend in) halflings and gnomes have less of. This will cause elves to try to retain a distinct cultural identity in…#Realmslore 2)
…direct proportion to how threatened/unaccepted/badly treated they feel. They will blend in more with humans who accept them, and stay aloof and proudly ‘elven’ more with humans who treat them like non-humans.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 24, 2019
Moon elves are generally ‘welcomed but exotic’ in Cormyr; i.e. most human Cormyreans will respond to their grace and beauty with smiles and either shyness or friendly converse and aid, so the elves will relax and respond in… # 4)
…kind. If specific moon elves and humans interacting with each other are in close-to-nature settings, they will be more alike because dealing with an environment familiar to both and ‘welcoming’ to both. In an urban setting…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 24, 2019
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…where humans are dominant (e.g. Suzail, Marsember, and Arabel) the moon elves will over time become more ‘humany’ to blend in—unless, on an individual level, they feel more threatened/unwelcome; they will respond to such… 6)
…treatment by leaving the setting or being more defiantly ‘elf-like’ (music, dancing, flamboyant dress, filling their personal dwelling-places with not just living plants, but soil and a full-range forest-like growing…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 24, 2019
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…environment—often causing flooding for human dwellers on the floor below, if there are any).#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 24, 2019
