Talk:Arilyn Moonblade

How is Arilyn a half-eladrin? She was born way before eladrin came to the Realms, right? Her mother was an elf, and her father was a human. Part human and part elf equals half-elf. Did she catch a virus from the SpellPlague that changed her race and the race of all of her ancestors, retroactively through time? Does this even matter to 4E people, as Arilyn should be long dead. After all, the 4E people wanted to kill off 99.9% of the Realms NPC's right? Or did Arilyn hibernate or something cool like that so 4E could have a couple of NPC's alive? (Bloodtide 00:27, 9 December 2008 (UTC))
 * This is an argument from ignorance and a good example of why I really dislike people who refuse to have anything to do with 4e and then have the ego to go about telling people what is or isn't canon. The FRCG, FRPG, and Dragon articles clearly establish that moon elves, from whom Arilyn is descended, are eladrin. Not after the Spellplague. Moon elves, star elves, and sun elves were always eladrin. Check the eladrin article for further discussion.
 * If you're going to argue about 4e related topics (like eladrin) do yourself a favor and read the books, so you can actually have something for reference. Niirfa-sa 01:38, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

Well...I did not know that all elfs were eladrin all this time. So all the elves of the Relams, except the wild elves, were eladrin all along? That is an odd change, but one I'd expect from 4E. Kinda odd that in the thousands of years of Realms history, all the eladrin/elves only had elven abilities and none of the 4E eladrin stuff. If the 4E book says all elves are retroactively eladrin, well OK. Guess we can just wait until 5E when they change everything. Oddly, though, it does fit that the elves are eladrin. Elves are after all aliens to the Realms, and there were 'elves' already in the Realms when they arrived. (Bloodtide 02:12, 9 December 2008 (UTC)) I'm sorry for my post then, the eladrin thing does make sense. (Bloodtide 02:56, 9 December 2008 (UTC))
 * Actually, wood elves aren't eladrin either. They're true elves. Drow are their own thing. And it's not as though 3e hadn't already established wood elves and wild elves as very different mechanically from sun elves, moon elves, etc. 4e simply got rid of the mechanics of subraces, instead making the most different subraces different races and the least difference ethnic variations of the same race (like Tethyrians or Chondathans amongst humans). Hope that sorts that out. Niirfa-sa 02:34, 9 December 2008 (UTC)