01-27-2004, 09:36 PM
In the Warhammer RPG, that's how elves handle being immortal. Their minds get too full of memories, so they periodically purge some of them. (Like that embarassing time of getting drunk and...) The way it was written up (this was years ago in White Dwarf magazine), though, I seem to recall that it was a mental discipline they needed to learn and that they couldn't remove memories from before learning it. I suppose an elf who couldn't do this would eventually go starkers, since they don't forget the way humans do.
It also made it very difficult for them to work through their mental issues. So if a young elf developed a fear of spiders before learning the memory disciplines, then in later life they would just purge any unpleasant memories of encounters with spiders and keep the phobia in tact.
I thought it was a nice twist on elves, and not as odd as Greg Staffords.
-- CH
It also made it very difficult for them to work through their mental issues. So if a young elf developed a fear of spiders before learning the memory disciplines, then in later life they would just purge any unpleasant memories of encounters with spiders and keep the phobia in tact.
I thought it was a nice twist on elves, and not as odd as Greg Staffords.
-- CH