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Lifted from a thread over at nkjemisin.com
james_nicoll
NK Jemisin asks

“Does epic fantasy have to be set in the past, or use bygone technology?”

Which gave me an amusing idea I haven't worked out what to do with yet:

You know what would be an epic stage for an epic fantasy? A Dyson Shell! [snip the specific model I had in mind]
(Magic comes in because obviously you can’t built a shell given real world constraints on materials…)


Also posted at Dreamwidth, where there are comment count unavailable comment(s); comment here or there.

I thought the other elves came from the space ship and the goat elves came from the ground, like potatos?

I think the guys with the hooves and crossbows came from the space ship but it has been a long time since I played. I have been through three MMORPGs since then.

I have hit the point where I am tired of them.

The *male* elves spent a few thousand years asleep/astral projected into the realm of dream, and got woken up recently. Prior to that, as far as anyone knew, the nightelves were a one-gender race of non-reproducing immortals. The goat people crashed a stolen magical spaceship into azeroth.