> Troll gut makes the best elf bow string. (After all,
> it can withstand almost any thing.)
Oh, great. Now violin players from across Glorantha will be ambushing
innocent trolls to use their guts for strings. :O You _barbarians_!
> Surely elves don't use paper.
Nah! You gots yer special tree that cranks out leafies with whatever you
want written on them (no doubt through how the veins are arranged, or
color, or whatever). Ya just pluck, bind and shelve. They taste better
than human books, too.
Considering Elves & Metal: since Elves seem to like to take the long view, they might not need to forge metal. Just develop a tree that'll concentrate copper or bronze (like the arrow plants do) in the bark; when tree dies, harvest the bark to use as armor. Encourage the limbs to grow in the right way as to provide greaves, etc. Gives a nice, pleasing barklike look. Dunno how they'd get chainmail off a plant, though.
Elves & Guerilla warfare:
Hmmm. Elves really can't give up too much territory, IMO, to an invading army: you do this too many times, and the invading army simply burns down a patch of the forest, and then retreats. Ouch. That's what your ZZ salamanders or Dwarven flamethrowers are for, ho ho ho.
Elves might have a defense-in-depth strategy; you ring your "elfwoods" with normal woods not integrated into the circle of life (or whatever the heck the elfies call it). You fight your skirmishing guerilla battles in the normal woods -- if those burn down, it's not a huge tragedy -- and have a nasty, nasty static defense around the elfwoods. By the time the invaders have gotten to it, they probably don't have the strength to push through.
If you're an aggressive wee foodelf, you try and push out the boundary of the normal woods as much as possible while integrating the old boundary woods into the "elfwoods" through ritual and magics.
James Frusetta
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