Reply To: WHtOW – fluff and does it make sense ?

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Actually, while you both have point about proxy army building given they have not worked on Cathay and Kislev at an army list level before,  they can do a lot to IP them up so they are at least not competing with 28mm history kits like the Empire and anything “white Euro with extra skulls” would be (so expect all those proxy print out minis to be next to useless for those armies when the official ones get out).

Also the original concept of elves doesn’t come from a “word meaning white”* or have anything to do with our European ancestral blood linage who where all backwater hick savages** till they discovered Jesus, then they where just backwater hicks till they invented patent laws

No, elves themselves came from Norse mythology in two flavors: The Dökkálfar (Dark Elves) and the Ljósálfar (Light Elves), which were clearly not human let alone Norse or European. Now while Dokkalfar are viewed by some “modern scholars” as another word for dwarfs, given the wording I would say the concept originators viewed them and Ljósálfar as the same race but in some sort of “yin/yang” setup. Also given Elves propensity for disciplined archery in modern pop culture, something most European cultures are not strongly associated with and generally suck at***, well lets just say Medieval Japan and Korea or even the Mongolian tribes would be a more realistic base cultures to draw from than the ones GW is  currently using for them.

 

*(Which was added as a moniker to the critters later and likely had more to do with the Fae nature of elves rather than their skin color).

**(Except maybe the Romans and Macedonians who might be counted as up to date outgoing backwater savages).

***(Yes there is the Medieval Welsh and British, but honestly they both used “redneck” level weapon tech for their bow builds and are pretty much the same over hyped backwater culture we all grew up hearing about in history class so not very fantastic or elf like and remarkable only for how boring and over hyped they are).