Howdy folks!

I have taken upon the role of guru for half-elves, and I am extremely excited to be working with this race, as it has always been my favourite. I’ve read back through the topic, and I hear ya – we are in definite need more defiant and/or proud half-elven verb characteristics, as it up until now it has mostly been relegated to shame-related messaging or playing up our human/elven sides.

But I would like your ideas if there is any verb in particular you’d like to see done, or if there’s any interest in a half-elven shops or items showing up at a festival or two. Or any other feature or idea you have for the race! You can reply here and/or shoot me an e-mail at GS4-Zythica@play.net, however you like.

We also need to hold our OOC meeting. If it’s not too soon, I’d like to hold it June 6th at 9pm Eastern; but I will not add that to the calendar yet until I hear some feedback from you guys.

Together we can bring into the forefront of Elanthian society that which we already knew – that our melding of characteristics from those two fledgling races into one harmonious perfection is one that should be respected and celebrated! The whole is greater than the sum of its parts, and all that jazz.

Please let me know your thoughts.

Cheers,


--Zythica

I'd like to see storylines and events.

Good luck!

Doug

They may be half-elves...but when I kill 'em, it still costs a whole-deed!

Mwu ha ha ha!

-GM Kenstrom-
Waylayer of Wehnimer's Landing
Human Guru
Giantmen Guru

'Tis a shame they only have half as much moxie. Elves needed the Arkati to build their empire- humans carved theirs out of the wild on their own. BURN CREAM FOR SALE!

-james, bristenn's player

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You think to yourself, "FFF-"

A giant white bunny hurls a powerful lightning bolt at you!

You evade the bolt by a hair!

More half-elf verbs? I'll have to give this a lot of thought. One thing I definitely would like to see is perhaps access to the human BOW options for half-elves with human/imperial culture settings. :)

~Arrec's Player

>>I think that's very smart. It would be very astute, and interesting, to play on the reality that many half-elves identify with the culture in which they were raised, and the reality that many of them may have even "passed" as full blooded human or elf for a time. I play a half-elf who passed as human while very young, and she still sees herself as human, with the elven part as inauthentic.

This is Arrec. He does not identify strongly with his elven blood, because his elven father was never present in his life. Of course at the same time, his mother's family worked diligently to ensure he never forgot he was, after all, a bastard and "different."

>>A fun take on this would be to give half-elves with a human culture selected access to a version of BOW that was basically reworded to be similar, but off. Not quite right.

I really, really like this idea. Something like..

bow submissive
You bow low, abasing yourself before all. Add to the end of this "with a carefully maintained neutral expression."

And for "bow respectfully," replace the bit about "Fixing your eyes firmly on the ground," with:
>Taking care to train your eyes forward, you bow respectfully.

Or targeted:
>Taking care to train your eyes on (target), you bow respectfully.

I like it because it bespeaks a certain degree of wariness while still being respectful.

bow grand
>Sweeping your arm outward, you bow low with an almost elven grace.

bow contemptuously
>Your face darkening grimly, you make a contemptuous half-bow.

bow mocking
>You bow mockingly, tilting your head in such a way to draw attention to your slightly pointed ears.

Just a smidge of defiance in that last one. smirk Someone more familiar with the Illistim verbs can take a crack at those, and I'm sure some very interesting things could be done with a half-human "corruption" of the Vaalor verbs as well.

~Arrec's Player

Don't have any half-elves, but I'll offer my two cents.

One thing that changed from GSIII days was to legitimately allow different kinds of half elves via the Clan selection (or however exactly it works). I think it's super cool that now you can look at characters and see a line other than "Half-Elf" depending on the character.

In that vein, I would think that perhaps some kinds of racial verbs might be unlocked only for various kinds of half-elves. This should be different than, say, halflings which have different cultures, since their race is all considered the same. With elves this is basically not the case (or at least, we mechanically distinguish three and a half kinds of elves), so I think it stands to reason that a Half-Faendryl and a Half-Sylvan may have different specific verbs which are more tailored to their breed. Naturally, you can get some inspiration from the other elven-specific messaging, and tweak it up.

Actually, I have no elves of any kind, so I'll let others run with this idea as they like (or not).

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GM Scribes

THANK YOU for this, I'm thrilled!

I've always thought something like a Half-Elf "language" would be a great RP opportunity. Years ago, there WAS a Half-Elf language that I always (in my mind) compared to some sort of Pidgin-type langage that was used when they were with other Pariahs. I understand why it disappeared, but-

What about a language of signs/symbols understood only by Half-Elves? We could trace such a thing all the way back to Oblone and its founder Miguel Tyssaryn-- Half-Elves then and now need some sort of private communication.


Christine and Bekke