I recently came across a Star Wars-based discussion that suggested Han Solo is the basic equivalent of Chewbacca's dog since Wookies live for four or five hundred years or something like that. The idea is that Han may not be Chewbacca's first human companion and he may not be the last since their life expectancies are so disparate. As well, there is a fair bit of pontification floating around that considers what it means to be a long-lived race living among humans, specifically the personality traits and behaviours that are fostered when you will live for hundreds and hundreds of years more than many of the individuals in your environment. Elves are generally described as patient, aloof and detached and humans rash, brutish and emotional by comparison, for example.
Between these two notions, I've been pondering what sort of person a foundling child raised by elves following the death of his human parents at age 10 or so might turn out to be and how the elves might regard and treat him as a person. What do you all think?
By 10 a lot of basic personality is already set. The elves will tend to give the human child a longer term view than it might ordinarily have. But, that might mean that “long term” becomes 5 years instead of next month for the adolescent human and 10 years instead of 1 year for the adult.
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I recently came across a Star Wars-based discussion that suggested Han Solo is the basic equivalent of Chewbacca's dog since Wookies live for four or five hundred years or something like that. The idea is that Han may not be Chewbacca's first human companion and he may not be the last since their life expectancies are so disparate. As well, there is a fair bit of pontification floating around that considers what it means to be a long-lived race living among humans, specifically the personality traits and behaviours that are fostered when you will live for hundreds and hundreds of years more than many of the individuals in your environment. Elves are generally described as patient, aloof and detached and humans rash, brutish and emotional by comparison, for example.
Between these two notions, I've been pondering what sort of person a foundling child raised by elves following the death of his human parents at age 10 or so might turn out to be and how the elves might regard and treat him as a person. What do you all think?
By 10 a lot of basic personality is already set. The elves will tend to give the human child a longer term view than it might ordinarily have. But, that might mean that “long term” becomes 5 years instead of next month for the adolescent human and 10 years instead of 1 year for the adult.
Wisea$$ DM and Player since 1979.