Elves are humanoids, they get tired like we do. However, they rest differently than us. They enter a state of deep meditation where they relive past memories as well as memories from previous incarnations.
"The relevant equation is: Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass; a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read." - Terry Pratchett
They still have to finish a long rest to gain the benefits of a long rest; the difference being that their long rest only takes four hours of 'trance' instead of eight hours for everyone else.
Personally, I don't know how anyone else sleeps around them; I hate techno music.
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They don't have the biological ability to sleep that humans do, but they do still need periods of reduced activity and a form of sleep that humans are not capable of. So yes, they can get exhausted.
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As the title says: Can elves get exhausted? They don't require sleep and just trance. To me, it wouldn't make sense for them to get tired.
Short answer: yes.
Elves are humanoids, they get tired like we do. However, they rest differently than us. They enter a state of deep meditation where they relive past memories as well as memories from previous incarnations.
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"The relevant equation is: Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass; a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read." - Terry Pratchett
They still have to finish a long rest to gain the benefits of a long rest; the difference being that their long rest only takes four hours of 'trance' instead of eight hours for everyone else.
Personally, I don't know how anyone else sleeps around them; I hate techno music.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
― Oscar Wilde.
And don't forget that exhaustion comes from more than just staying awake as well.
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Personally, I don't know how anyone else sleeps around them; I hate techno music.
They don't have the biological ability to sleep that humans do, but they do still need periods of reduced activity and a form of sleep that humans are not capable of. So yes, they can get exhausted.