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As a gm i like to play with words and use them as clues for puzzles or just make my players think a bit harder on the meaning of what they learn.
so while talking about 'humanity' and acting on it, i was then of course going on and thinking 'well what will you call other race-ralted aspects?'
i thought up a few and would like to see what others can come up with. It need to be one word that ether contain the race's name or sound close enough to be immediately related to it while also hint on the aspect it lean to.
here are my ideas so far:
'Elvanity' - the Elven race self built superiority complex.
'Drowinizem' - Drow's aspect on survival of the fittest.
'Gnomeledge' - the gnome's race take on gathering facts (and fiction).
'Orkin' - the Orcs hoard mentality (orc-kin).
still working on the rest, do share if you have good ideas!
-oh and please no 'Trolling' ;)
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Golarion’s elves are not smugly superior.
But then neither were Tolkien’s or those of Faerun (until late in the game when Ed Greenwood was no longer in control).
I never even heard this idea until the internet arrived.
Originally it tended to come mixed with a dose of macho/homophobic baggage about elves being effete but I haven’t seen that lately.
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Anyway, you can substitute human-nature or humans for almost every use of ‘humanity’ so presumably you can just use Elven-nature when you need to.
Honestly, I generally equate the abstract notion of one's humanity with empathy and general fellow-feeling. If that’s the case then ‘elfiness’ or whatever would be the same thing, just between elves.
Is that even a thing though? My general experience is that people usually take the ‘humanity’ approach to all sentient, non-evil species.
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yea, so this is less of a social study work and more a light semi disk-world geeky theme to see how words can have way more then one meaning and different words that sound alike can actually represent the same thing.
i did not intend to offend elves (or trolls for that matter).
don't take it too deep.