| Gotta admit I sorta skimmed, so forgive me if you covered this. I seem to remember doing the quest lines in Eversong/Ghostlands when you come upon the sanctum's for the first time they explain that they are used to gain magic from the "fey currents" (might be wrong on the exact wording) to help the addiction. Perhaps elves that remain in eversong don't suffer from the full affects of the addiction (although I contradict myself - the placement of the wretched seems to suggest otherwise, unless the wretched are simply from when the sunwell was first destroyed). Those elves in outlands and in other parts of the world I can imagine would be fairly grim characters, having to live with their addiction, day in and day out.
I've been looking at how I'm going to expand my belf and I see it expanding in this way, at first he's a typical belf as the npc's portray them - vain arrogant, then as he leaves eversong woods behind he gets more grim...
Edit: read further into your bit on dysfunctional society and yeh you basically covered it.
Not being a heroin addict I can't say how accurate "Requiem for a Dream" is but its a whole film based around addiction in 4 different people and how it ruins them. |