I told her that I sought something of what she is with which to do battle against the Demons, for she is an anathema to them. I told her that the Elves had no magic save my own with which to counter the power of the Demons I told her that I feared that this alone might not be enough, that I might fail. She gave me audience, speaking with the images that are her words, asking why I had come. “Early this morning I went to her, alone, seeking to find a weapon with which we might stand against our enemy. By that I mean every Elf is expected to devote a part of his life to working with the land–to repairing damage it may have suffered through misuse or neglect, to caring for its animals and other wildlife, to caring for its trees and smaller plants where the need to do so is found.” Every Elf is expected to spend a portion of his life giving back to the land something of what he has taken out of it. All that has changed now, but they still maintain a belief in their moral responsibility for their world. Of course, they had little else to concern them in those days, for they were an isolated and reclusive people. In the old world, they devoted the whole of their lives to caring for the woodlands and forests in which they lived, cultivating its various forms of vegetation, sheltering the animals that it harbored.

They have always held this belief foremost in their conduct as creatures of the earth. “The Elven people believe that preservation of the land and all that lives and grows upon it, plant and animal alike, is a moral responsibility.

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