You might also want to think about the reimagined Battlestar Galactica. The show ended with some of the Cylons and the surviving humans settling on an early Earth and abandoning high tech. What if "elves" are Cylon models who decided not to change? When their current bodies begin to wear out, they migrate to new ones (so they never appear to age). They tend to lose interest in what's happening now because it's just another slightly-different iteration on something they've already experienced. They don't want humans to get their hands on high tech because they don't want humans realizing that the tech is the only thing separating the Cylon models from humans (they're literally similar enough biologically that only an extremely precise DNA test can detect any difference).


On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 11:09 AM Peter L. Berghold <xxxxxx@berghold.net> wrote:
In a nod to Eric Von Daniken when designing my science fiction universe
I decided that humanity was far from being alone much less the only
humans in the universe.  With that decided I started thinking of all
the humanoid creatures (elves, dwarves, trolls, lepraucans et al) and
thought to myself "maybe those legends have some truth behind them!"

It's been said before that tech of high enough level cannot be
discerned from magic so the "magic powers" some of these creatures had
could be be tech misunderstood by earth dwellers of sufficiently low
tech level.

Besides using using this list as a sounding board I want to pose some
ideas and thoughts and see what the rest of the list members think of
my insane ideas.

I realize of course non of this is canon.

So the personality (or a facet thereof) of elves I am aware of would in
my mind make them if not xenophobic but aloof to the younger races (I
have decided they are a very old race) and possibly hostile to humans
in particular.

This idea of mine is still being "baked" but I'm going to look at it
for all the races listed above.

I've already incorporated lepracauns in my universe as a scary nod to
"Grandfather" with some of them still alive.  One Moonicher (their name
for themselves) family appears on one of my short stories as brewers.


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Professonally: (retired) IT Professional (DevOps, Puppet, Perl...)
Advocations: Dog Training, Beer Brewing, BBQ, Cooking

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