#dwarves vs elves

[mrkida-art]

My take on elves

I imagine elves as being beautiful but in a very uncanny way. Humanlike but still clearly inhuman. And just like dwarves, very androgynous, but instead on the other side of the spectrum. In the picture, we see an elvish man and a dwarvish woman for example.

Also censored nudity (body reference) under the cut.

[modeus-the-misanthrope]

Dwarf at the dwarven mess hall: Fine day for a mead, right brothers!

Fellow dwarf: Aye, fine day...twas also the day for the "Elf Hater's" meeting. Ya weren't there, again.

First Dwarf, visibly sweating: Oh, uh....that twas today? Had no idea, was too busy plundering the depths for ore I suppose.

Third dwarf snickering: Aye? Not the only depths you've been in lately, I bet!

First Dwarf: Wha-

Second Dwarf: We seen ya hanging around that Elven lad. You not gonna pull a "Gimli" on us, are ye?

First Dwarf:...All I am saying is, maybe Gimli had some good poi-

*Eruption of angry swears from the Second Dwarf, and laughter from the Third Dwarf. The phrase, "Elven Man Coochie" is used multiple times.*

[porphyriosao3]

This. I know that all the documentation Tolkien produced was essentially designed to be elvish propaganda, but imagine how they would have reacted to the loss of Aman? Yeah, you can't sail West because there's no West any more. Sorry about that, big bad took it. Now what? Better not hear the gulls, because then you'll pine for a place that's no longer there. Sucks to be you.

the sheer scale of khazad-dûm's existance is so unimaginable…! it existed longer than any elven realm in middle-earth (from what i know), it is older than the hobbits as a whole, it saw númenor rise and then sink back into the ocean. khazad-dûm was built by the literal first dwarf that awoke, it is older than the sun and moon. it encompasses nearly all of their existance. and it was brutally taken from them!! of course they want it back!!

[aerial-ace97]

Insane Controversy Time

Any good leftist knows that picking elves over dwarves is a liberal mindset and the true based answer is to choose the gay bears that are dwarves.  And I will die on that hill.

[ambrosiagourmet]

Marcille didn’t use illegal magic to resurrect Falin bc she just loves Falin that much, she was able to resurrect Falin bc she already knew illegal magic bc she doesn’t respect elf cops.

[silvantransthranduiltrash]

Elves don’t see elves as humans see elves.

I really like the idea that elves, when they look at other elves, don’t see each other with the same kind of awe inspiring beauty as humans that would look upon elves do.

In an elves eyes, other elves look just as unremarkable as a human would find most other humans unremarkable.

The reason is because of an elf’s vision. They see everything in extreme detail, so while we humans might see unblemished skin, an elf would be able to see every minute scratch and dent that graced the elf’s skin just as easily as a tattoo.

A human will look at an elf and see perfect skin, perfect hair, perfect grace.

An elf will look at another elf and see a canvas of scars crisscrossing over the skin, telling the tale of the centuries they’ve lived.

A human will look at an elf’s face and find it as though it was cut from marble.

An elf will look at that same elf’s face and see a stark, angry scar dragging across the elf’s face.

[into-the-very-fires-of-mordor]

took this to one o my besties, as always she proves an excellent muse <3

apparently also his name is gorges now

currently reading an excerpt from "gorgias" and while i had been pronouncing it "gor-GEE-as" my mom just proposed the alternative pronunciation of

✨gorgeous✨

and now i can't stop imagining him like doing one of those instagram girliepop poses where he's like blowing a kiss over his shoulder while winking, and a variety of other model poses

[spotlightstudios]

Shout-out to my other English professor who somehow has not interacted with the Percy Jackson series. At all. Completely unaware. Blissfully ignorant.

(And to me who is apparently more mentally ill about the collection than others because I have read every single series by uncle Rick and that is apparently *not* a common theme among the English Majors)

[caluski]

So what you've been up to these days? Wow you've made a vampires vs werewolves poll? Ohhh but yours is meant to put a definite end to the discussion? I see, I see. That's great man, good for you

[sunprophets]

rereading eragon & taking notes on it for fun and you can really tell this was written by a 15 yr old. like it’s quite apparent at times

[mfelewzi]

The Wars of Arran/Guerres d'Arran, an interesting fantasy comics' series published in France and drawed by different european authors.

Part of the fantasy world of Aquilon, is a good fusion among Epic Fantasy as Tolkien, Sword & Sorcery as Howard and Moorcock and Low Fantasy as G. R. R. Martin, were the protagonists are the non human people as elves, ogres and goblins and dwarves, here minoroties or Native people with their problem between them and the human race, the new people and Master of Aquilon. So we can see discriminations, persecutions and genocides against minoroties, so who want to make some comparisons can do It. But please, no hate.

Ah yes, the covers' tomes (yes, this is how the volumes are called) about elves are in italian. Sadly I didn't find the french covers with the titles. And for Who is interested: yes, the name of one of our comic book publishing houses is Panini, literally "Sandwiches". Well, I don't accept lessons by countries when their most famous comic book publishing house is called "Dark Horse".

Anyway, there is an interesting spinoff set in the Aquilon version of Africa, Terres d'Ogon/Lands of Ogon. For all people Who want a Fantasy that isn't set in Europe or in Far Asia (because I didn't Say that there are some Middle Eastern-like countries in Aquilon). If somebody is interested and It's bored with all the useless and tokenist fake fantasy made in Netflix, or they wanted a more mature and not inspired by D&D version of Legend of Vox Machina.

[salad-juice-enjoyer]

@elfdragon12

[escapistcatontheinternet]

i love the extras of dungeon meshi in how it fleshes out the world because they make it so much more evident how race affects every part of the story while avoiding the zootopia racism problem. like obv a main theme of the story is like, humanity and desire, 'to eat is to live', etc, but since the majority of it takes place in the dungeon isolated from society and thru the lens of laios, the racial aspects play out more like shadows on a wall for most of the story.

then in the extras we get comics like this

which at a glance fleshes out the racial aspects via a character explaining the racial rules of universe - humans have x amount of bones, while orcs and kobolds have more. however, if u take it less straightforwardly, it points out how the concept of 'human' is a constructed concept in the world. the fact that there are different categories of human in different parts of the world based off of what types of humanoids occur there is already a demonstration of this. in response, the bones explanation seems to kabru and the characters as an objective way of measuring humans vs nonhumans.

but obv, when the culture was deciding what humanoids were humans and nonhumans, they weren't blindly analyzing skeletons and then deciding. just visually, one can glean that orcs and kobolds look less like the ingroup of tallmen, elves, dwarves, gnomes, etc. the bones explanation appears as a justification for that immediate prejudice under a scientific guise - I'm sure that one could come up with the same number of physical differences between a gnome and an elf that they would find between a tallman and an orc. it sounds a lot better to say 'well, an orc has 230 bones while a human has 206' then 'well, an orc looks ewwww yucky yucky to me while a human looks normal'.

and what i like abt the comic is that the characters take the explanation at face value for the most part. when a contradiction is brought up in the oni, kabru can neatly slot them into the predetermined number of bones framework. bc that's kinda how it works irl - there r cultural prejudices that we can posthumously justify, and if we find something outside of it, we can twist it to fit into our predetermined binary. however, since the reader does not live in a world where there are orcs and kobolds to be prejudiced against, we can see that flaw in the cultural logic. when the party encounters the orcs, the number of bones has no bearing on their humanity. They r shown to be cliquish and distrusting of outsiders, but not any more than the elves are later in the story.

tldr dungeon meshi worldbuilding is so good

[sabertoothwalrus]

Your tags on the Elven Queen vs Laois "close to a mixed race child" and the differences and. The fact that Marcille as well half elf head magic advisor, him canonically wanting his misfit friends help him run the country (whether capable or not). She can't even pull the "older and wiser" card with Yaad "I'm older then all you long life races" around. She thinks about how somehow this all boils into a fairly successful kingdom and gets a migraine

Godddd I spent so much time thinking about dungeon meshi politics yesterday.

I genuinely don’t think the Queen of Elves would have a change of heart towards mixed-blood people. I think it would stress Kabru the FUCK out because the political tensions this would cause (but also he’d be a smug about making the elves angry, serves them right.)

The dwarves are a different story. Even if the King also hated mixed-bloods, most dwarves look to their local governance than the King. It’s also common for dwarves & gnomes to have families together, so at the very least, dwarves are accepting mixed-bloods as long as they’re both long lived races.

Even if they weren’t, it’d be funny if dwarves became more progressive culturally just because they hate elves so much shfhshdhsjs AGAIN. THE POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THIS.

Imagine. Marcille feeling guilty and targeted simply for being mixed-blood on a royal council. Trying not to feel like her whole existence is undermining the legitimacy of Laios’s new kingdom.

And the worst part? she’s GAY

LIKE!!! we don’t know how accepting this world is of gay people. And ngl I sometimes think it’s more interesting when stories have homophobia. We know the village the Toudens grew up in was fairly conservative. We know Otta is a canonical lesbian, but she was, yknow… arrested.

What if Laios, wishing the best for his little sister and one of his closest friends, legalizes gay marriage in Melini. What if their marriage isn’t recognized in other countries? What if people start to move to Melini BECAUSE they want to get married. What if Melini is seen as some silly, backwards, laughing-stock of a kingdom. God, Kabru would be like “listen I love what we’re doing here but I’m trying not to start an outright WAR. 😭”

Oh god I haven’t even touched on Falin’s chimerism. That’s probably also a sore subject. WHEW!

[dunmeshistash]

Dungeon Meshi Human Interracial offspring (Mostly Spoiler Free)

As you might know, in Dungeon Meshi "human" is a term that refers to not only "tallman" (the equivalent of our world humans) but also Half-Foots, Ogres, Dwarves and Elves.

Besides the weird bone counting classification Kabru made I think one of the defining "human" aspects might be being able to have offspring with each other (unclear if that's possible at all between human and demi-human).

That said the Adventurer's Guide has some information about it that I wanted to share.

First, Humans in dungeon meshi are divided between short and long lived races, those are:

Long Lived Human Races:

Elf

Dwarf

Gnome

Short Lived Human Races:

Tallman

Half-foot

Ogre

As a general rule mixed offspring seems to be infertile but there's some exceptions.

Confirmed mixed race offspring that can leave descendants (Fertile offspring):

Tallman x Half-Foot

Tallman x Ogre

Dwarf x Gnome

An easy chart with the info! (It's not that complicated but its easier for me to see like this) (edit: added info what mixes have confirmed and speculated characters)

Seems like short-lived species can only have fertile offspring with each other and the same for long lived. Although there's no information about elves being able to have them with any other races, maybe because they live so much more than the other long-lived species (400 vs 200 & 240)

There's also no information about Ogres with Half-foot but I don't imagine the logistics to produce offspring would work there 😳

Another thing is that the Adventurer's Bible describes that the tallman have had an explosive growth due to having fertile offspring with half-foot and Ogres , so I wonder if that means their offspring are tallman too? Or are they still half-half-foot (a funny name) and half-Ogre? Unclear!

some of the confirmed mixed characters:

Corpse Retriever Leader - Half-Dwarf (Dwarf x Tallman)

Corpse Retriever Priest - Half-Gnome (Gnome x ? [Probably Tallman])

Fionil - Half-Elf (Elf x ? [Probably Tallman])

For the chart I added them as confirmed half-tallman due to their height/looks, I'm just being overzealous here.

Speculated mixed from the race portraits

In order: Half-Foot page: possibly half-dwarf | Elf Page: possibly half-foot or gnome mix | Dwarf page: possibly half-gnome.

Sources and Spoilers Bellow the cut

From the page about tallman in the adventurer's bible (p134)

From the page about dwarves in the adventurer's bible (p140)

From the page about Ogres in the adventurer's bible (p140)

Page about 'other characters' (p098)

Fionil Profile (p096)

Spoiler And ofc I did not forget Marcille! I just don't want to tag this as spoilers since that would be pretty much the only spoiler

[rs-hawk]

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