At 03:03 a.m. 20/08/2008, you wrote:
>Here is the first idea I had while reading about the blue elves.
>
>A group from the School of Otherworld Exploration decides to explore the
>oceans (a la 'twenty thousands leagues under the sea'), and the undersea
>forests tended by the blue elves are an important stop during the travel.
The trouble is with this type of scenario is that it's highly specialized
to a particular group of people.
Blue Elves would be more likely to interact with surfacers
- the Sargasso Armada - a previously obscure tribe of blue elves
has had a divine relevation and surfaced to create a vast swath
of seaweed to entrap any shipping they can.
- the Red Tides - the blue elves are attempting to occupy
the nearby littoral by summoning harmful algal blooms to
devastate their rivals.
- the Flooded Forest - when the Flood covered the world,
many blue elf forests grew upon what is now dry land. After the
storm gods fought the oceans and won, the flooded forests
were forced into hiding. But in certain circumstances, heavy
rain or a major flood a flooded forest can return to the mortal
world for a time...
--Peter Metcalfe