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[rowancrowned]

Dh'oine, [ thranduil mimics, trying it. ] Our little cousins call them shemlen- shem- here. It means quick children, [ and obviously thranduil is very fond of it, though he can't use it publicly anymore. ]

Yes. The unity does mean something. [ he's worked so hard to cultivate it, to bind them together in respect to an eventual when of it being needed. he means it when he says they are all family. ]

That is interesting, [ he says, even and polite, as if it is no great concern. his face falls at the second admission; these elves have no blessed lands to return to, no námo to build them back to perfect health. ]

[aenseidhe]

I'd hardly call them quick, in anything other than their lifespan. Dh'oine has no real meaning besides 'human', though the ages have assigned implications along the lines of 'thieving fucking pests with no honor or souls to speak of' most of the time. [ You might guess that there's some bad blood there. ] As 'elf' has similar connotations.

[ 'elf-made' a term that implies something is shoddy or poor in quality, though most elven products are far superior to humans. the word elf also comes hand in hand with something akin to betrayal or treason in the Northern Kingdoms, which seems utterly hilarious to Iorveth, given they'd never been welcomed into those kingdoms, truly, and the humans must be idiots to think the people they've been walking over and torturing for centuries wouldn't join up with an army ready to decimate them.

all of that is a much longer story than is being asked here, though. about half-elves. ]

Some Scoia'tael units reject the half-elves as well, wary of their human blood, but I've never felt particular concern over them. They're on the path to extermination just the same as the rest of the nonhumans on the Continent. [ a beat, and he shrugs. ] There's unity in that as well. We take what we can get.

The city elves and Dalish in this realm would do well to work similarly, if they wish to get out of their respective encroaching graves.