Quote Originally Posted by Psyren View Post
Actually I think you're onto something. If there's one thing elves have in common in pretty much every setting it's being better than humans. So whenever humans change, elves get updated too to maintain their superior status, thus keeping them relatively fresh.

Even settings that are intended to subvert that trope, like Thedas, largely do so by having most of their elves in some state of decline from... a historical period in which they were unequivocally better, and there are probably holdouts in said setting who maintain the old ways of superiority.
Does that make Khan an Elf?
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