homerjsinnott said:
Archer said:
I started that discussion, and I never got the answer I believed was right.
Now that the "elves" have been verified to be walking trees, I definetly say they should be called ents, if you are not to use unique names at all.
Edited for the truth.
Edited for your point of view, not the truth. It is always easier to call someone names, belittle them, or make fun of them, rather than to meet their arguments, when you find yourself running out of good arguments to meet them with. So please, dont. Let us continue to keep the discussion civil.
The fact remains, all the reasons I got why the elves should look like trees, and still be called elves, seemed hollow. Especially since RQ had elves in the past, and now they are gone, replaced with mini-ents.
The only reason to call the mini-ents elves, seem to be because adryami in the past were true elves in apperance (and in the meaning of the word as used in modern fantasy litterature), and changing the name now (the name the humans use), would turn away some RQ players.
Give me a fact, showing where the meaning of the word elf refers to being that looks like a walking tree, and I will accept that as a good argument for the current aldryami to be called elves.
In fact, there is a stronger case for using the word elf to describe a short stocky human with a beard (dwarf), since they have been somewhat interchangable throughout mythology (especially in the Eddan). But then, that would go against what the word "elf" and "dwarf" has come to mean in modern fantasy litterature, and would go against the imagery that is now associated with each of those two words.
Sure, as someone said, RQ is make belief. But so are all RPGs, including Talislanta. And you can ask yourself and other Talislanta players (other than me), why that game has not gained a greater following with it's very non-standard races.