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I think it's because they're so damned *alien*. An Elf isn't an animal, and he isn't even a plant--rather, he's a *part* of a plant. A small, mobile shoot of the Great Forest.
As I see it, the Wood found the Man Rune and said, "Hm... Plusses: Can walk around and hold stuff. Minuses: Automomy, intelligence, initiative... but we can fix that."
That's why I like Uz. Of all the Elder Races, their motives and behavior are most like humans, so I can get inside their heads a little.
(Mostali are at least as alien, of course--being part of a forest is
less weird than being part of a machine. But since they're the
"technological" group in Glorantha, the Mostali are useful to us as the
Voice of the Real World: viz. that hilarious retelling of "Lankhor Mhy
trapped in the cube" as a bug report (
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Realm/5545/mything/cage.html ).)
> But the relationship between Aldryami and other races, at last,
> results to me fascinating (a part from the Big Rubble).
Oh, sure. No question there. I think Aldryami are a great *NPC* addition to a game--though as I see it, the "NPC" is the whole communal hive-mind, not any particular sprite or dryad.
But a player-character Aldryan (is that the word?)--no, don't see how it can be done. Unless it's a renegade, in which case I think you'd have to play it as basically crazy.
Just IMHO, of course. YGMV. Not to be taken internally.
--AMS
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