“Elf” as applied to Elorii

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  • June 19, 2017 at 4:53 pm #152697
    Anonymous
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    Is the word “elf” used at all in Arcanis? I thought I vaguely recalled it being used as pejorative but can’t seem to recall at this point.

    June 19, 2017 at 6:09 pm #275571
    Anonymous
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    It has not been used in a canon source for many years (likely more than a decade), but players still use it as a pejorative fairly often.

    June 20, 2017 at 6:56 am #275573
    Anonymous
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    I personally don’t use the term except when explaining Arcanis to new people. In-play, if you take it as a pejorative, make sure that the player intends it as such and isn’t just new-to-the-setting.

    If you need a pejorative term for Elorii, using something like “Knife-Ears” would probably be better and more newbie-friendly. I only bring up newbie-friendliness because at Origins I didn’t play a single table outside of the BI without at least one new-to-arcanis player playing a pre-gen, and the Elorii sorcerer seemed to be a super-popular pregen.

    June 20, 2017 at 1:39 pm #275579
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    Most people like calling the elorii some variation of vampire (“pointy teeth freaks” for example) owing to their rather pronounced canines (see the cover of Arcanis: Roleplaying Game)

    February 24, 2018 at 9:05 pm #276066
    Anonymous
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    Pardon the necro-threading,

    I recall a non-official game where the Elorii took insult to the name “Elf” from the humans that called him that, addressing them with “Why? You do not hear me calling you ‘Ape’, do you?”

    I thought it too hilarious to pass up \":lol:\"

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