Jamuz Fruzetta:
>Oh, great. Now violin players from across Glorantha will
>be ambushing innocent trolls to use their guts for strings.
>:O You _barbarians_!
Nah. Tried it, but they were too discordant.
Jamuz Fruzetta:
>[Elfses] 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.
Books made of humans, I take it.
Jamuz Fruzetta suggests that Elves will be reluctant to give up territory because invaders will just torch the place. This would have the add on effect of disrupting any magical effects dependent on the continued existence of tracts of forest. He suggests that elves have a defense in depth strategy, with all the outer areas essentially expendable. He suggests that expansionist elves would try to expand the border woods and integrate the old border woods sequentially.
I agree. Here are some important mechanics. Elves (as Jamuz suggests) take the long view. They have invested a large amount of magical resources in creating walls of tangle thickets that form the basis of the nasty static defense Jamuz postulates. Animated war trees and elves form the majority of the active defenses outside this ring. Runners, pixies, and even dryads help defend the ring. When an area of border wood is burnt, it is quickly tended to encourage healing. Moreover, expansionist elves build tanglethicket walls running perpendicular to the ring (ie. going outwards) for two purposes: separate invading forces so your lines of communication are shorter than theirs and to provide internally defensible cells inside your ring once you have incorporated border woods.
Nils:
>what about the now extinct white elves?
>They might very well have been immortal.
Duh? White elves? Wherzat?
Alex Ferguson:
>Most mreli are just just chummy to bits with vronkai, or at
>least the ones they share their forest with (as opposed to
>the Nasty ones in the next forest along).
Hmm. I thought they oft killed each other, especially after Gbaji was
created. Although if the schism dates from Gbaji times, rather than the
darkness, there is no reason for any brown elf concerns about mythic respect
to exist. I need to rethink.
Alex:
>you would say that, being human.
Nah. Lawyer.
Chris Lemens
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