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This leads into why elves seem constantly dismissive of and annoyed by other races: non-elves cause stress. Elves can do many things while in long-time, but unless stressed, they will not be devoting the necessary focus to noticing much of what they're about. Long-time is a fluid, waking dream peaceful, functional and allowing the acquisition of experience over a long period of time. Elves in long-time can devote themselves to a given pursuit for anywhere from a week to several years without even having to notice what they are doing. A sort of mental auto-pilot, long-time supplements the elven need to trance by allowing elves to keep their minds at ease while developing muscle memory and picking up on subtle nuances and details that stand out as relevant.
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Elves in long-time can eat, drink, read, play music, craft woodwork or even hunt game or fight goblins if they are sufficiently at ease with the task at hand. As creatures with a lifespan measured in centuries, elves have a lot of time available to waste on getting things right, and long-time is the biological mechanism that allows them to do it.Īn elf is in long-time whenever there is nothing stressful that requires true focus. The elf brain does not perceive time and receive information in the same fashion that most other humanoids do elves live much of their adult life in a pseudo-trance known as long-time, in which they can idle away days or weeks at a time without devoting significant mental focus to anything. The most crucial element to understanding an elf's mindset, though, is to understand long-time and short-time. Within five minutes of having started walking - about 75 ft, the length of a few rooms' walk - an elf is comfortably gliding along at a decibel level below the average human's ability to hear. In mechanical terms, elves when unhurried move at half normal speed and take 20 on Move Silently checks. Though they naturally possess a refined quality of movement and agility, elves' famed grace derives from a more culturally-ingrained source: elves move slowly. The elf body is lean, fluid and sensitive often moreso than many other races, an elf keenly feels physical sensations on the skin, with roughly twice the sensitivity of the human body in areas not normally associated with a higher-than-normal concentration of nerve endings in other humanoids. When it comes to grace, elves are certainly more dextrous than many humanoids in a similar height range. What underlies these perceptions, from the elf's standpoint? Humans, in turn, seem to vacillate between admiration of the elves' beauty and grace and irritation at the long-lived race's arrogance and condescension. If that were translated into the Body Mass Index, the difference would be a swing of 8 points.įor a people who often come up only to the chins of their noisy younger neighbors, elves certainly have a knack for looking down their noses at humanity. The average human male stands 5 ft 9 inches tall and weighs 175 lbs the average elf male stands 5 ft 2 inches tall and weighs 109.5 lbs. tall human male weighing the minimum for his height (124 lbs) is a mere three pounds lighter than an elf male of the same height and maximum healthy weight (127 lbs). Just how different is the elf physique from that of a human? To put it in context, a healthy 5 ft. Symmetrical to seemingly the last detail, elves are often looked upon by humans as being extremely beautiful by human standards, with their high cheekbones, rich almond-shaped eyes and preternaturally graceful movements. Elves are willowy, sylvan humanoids fine-boned, with defined angular characteristics to their bone structure that strengthen their fragile physiology and compensate for the lightness of their skeletal systems.