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**The Saucepan Man** · 01-19-2003, 05:43 PM

It makes sense that a race that is immortal will take a darn sight longer than most to reach maturity.

But one thing that has always puzzled me is why don't they have more children. From the family trees that I have seen, they seem to have about the same size families on average as we do. But, given the time they were around, you would expect them to have considerably more (with the inevitable population explosion). Is this explained anywhere, or is it something that we just assume as Elven nature?

01-19-2003, 05:43 PM	#6
The Saucepan Man Corpus Cacophonous Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: A green and pleasant land Posts: 8,390	It makes sense that a race that is immortal will take a darn sight longer than most to reach maturity. But one thing that has always puzzled me is why don't they have more children. From the family trees that I have seen, they seem to have about the same size families on average as we do. But, given the time they were around, you would expect them to have considerably more (with the inevitable population explosion). Is this explained anywhere, or is it something that we just assume as Elven nature? __________________ Do you mind? I'm busy doing the fishstick. It's a very delicate state of mind!