If this is true for some Gloranthan forests as well,
you can
find symbiotic relationships between some fungi and
samoe trees,
which ought to be mirrored in the relationship between
their
related elf-species. (So your pine elf could have a
little
mushroom dark elf sidekick sitting on his shoulder.)
I think rotting properly and return back to the forest
is
as important to many Aldryami as getting a proper
burial
is for humans, and since it's obvious that the fungi
play
a part,they accept this as well. Mee Vorala as
psychopomp?
As regards fungal diseases, the associated Voralans (if
any)
are probably hated, but they might have troll allies
instead.
In short, I think plant-elves relate to mushroom-elves
as the
ecological role of the mushroom-elves dictate, not as
just 'Voralans'.
Since different kinds of fungi are just as diverse as
different
kinds of plant, and I don't think that Aldryami relate
to other
plants in the same way (my old example: in the RW
spruce forests
tend to slowly 'drive off' decideous forests, and I can
very well imagine
elven wars between different kinds of forests in the
same way
- - the elven way, which is nothing like human armies
battling it
out on the field of war), I don't think they relate to
mushrooms
in the same way either.
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