We find out that Gruumsh penetrated Corellon and that all elves come from what dripped out of Corellon after that. e
Um...what words
exactly do they use? The idea of Gruumsh wounding Corellon and elves being born from his blood goes back to 1E (I don't own D&DG, but Roger Moore's article on "The elven point of view", as reprinted in
Best of Dragon III, makes reference to it).
Did I mention that the elves all go in for reincarnation with a stint of solitary confinement in their afterlife?
Hmm...sounds like Tolkien, although the Professor's probably too conservative, monarchist/minarchist, gender-essentialist, and just plain Catholic for the WotC crowd these days
Then again, it could also be part of pushing the elves in a more fey, less incarnate direction.
I'm just not really seeing anything in the elf section that I want to add to my game. What's really funny is that the in-world voices try to patch together the takes on elves from all of the existing D&D worlds and then...come up with this stuff which doesn't really fit with any of them?
It's the
Complete Book of Elves all over again!