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It seems almost conspicuous, the entire lack of a a mythology underlying the elves...
What stories do mothers tell their children when they go to bed? what stories of hope and victory do the elven fathers tell their sons when they hold a spear for the first time? or a bow?
We have gods, we have a history, but do we, as elves, have myth? Stories about Asuryan walking amongst the elves, and why Kournos is revered as the hunter? Stories that relate the feelings of Issha and why Lileath became godess of forgiveness? Because I cannot find them. All our armybook and the current novels I've read tell the tales of the elves themselves as history, rather than myth.
If anyone knows where to find the elven myths, please point me there :3

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It depends whether you believe all of the history we are told. I don't know apart from that.

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They have the gods, and an origin myth(The Old Ones), these both count as mythology to us, but because of their long lives it's probably still fresh in their memories ^_^

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I believe it's the whole idea that religion turned into myth over time, and reality and science was discovered/uncovered.
But as the Elven Gods are actually real, and play a part in the world and heroes from time to time, the history is what you're calling myth, even though it's not actually myth, as it's truth and reality (to the Elves as a fictitious specie etc...

I know they have tales and stories of dark days and heroic victories and times in their history that they tell around the campfire and to their young as bedtime stories, perhaps some have been given a Chinese whispers effect over the centuries and millennia of telling after telling through their generations.
So in a way they would have fables..

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I think it's mainly a definition thing.

If you define mythology as a bunch of made up stories set a long time ago about things we can't (couldn't) explain and about the rules of behavior, (which is roughly what the definition today is) then the elves don't have them. The elves know what happened, their gods are real, it happened only something like 8 - 10 generations ago. And that in a people who have strong ties in tradition and believe in the past and written records for most of the way. And while they have suffered from war over the years, some places of knowledge have been in elven hands for pretty much ever. So little chance of records getting lost.

With the 8-10 generations in mind, you should see it as something that happened 250 -300 years ago in our world. Not as something that happened at the time of the ancient greeks. We have a pretty good idea of what happened in the 18th century for instance.

If you define mythology as the set of tales that describes the origin of the world and the relationship of the gods and their functions, then the HE definatly have them. We don't see (all) of them, since the part of the HE we run into is the fighting part. But just look in the army book at how we have items related to the different gods. You can be sure that there will be stories related to these items and the gods defining them.

And, anything that happened before the departure of the old ones will have myths related to them. Since most of what happened then is clouded in mystery. Even the Slann aren't always clear of what was going on and what the old ones intended.

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They definitely have stories about gods and their doings in ancient times. From what I read, most of these stories include Vaul helping some other god and being mistreated by Khaine - you can't make a mistake there.

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so far, people have voted that we do have a myth, but can you póínt to it? Can you show me the page and paragraph where to read? because I might be overlooking a whole new depth to the elves?

but with the definition of "myth" for the elves, that would mean tales where the Old Ones interact and the gods interact amongst themselves, as well as the elves.

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For in depth stuff, you'll need to get a hold of the old Warhammer Fantasy Roleplaying stuff.

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I would very much like to, but it is difficult...
Raithial: Try Shadow King p. 283 (moonbow). The story of Sword of Khaine is known well enough. That is myth, no one really knows how it came to be.

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I could quote the Moonbow "tale" here as I have the digital copy of the book.
But could you tell me the chapter and how far in etc the section is please Aicanor..?

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Didn't she give a page number?

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Chapter nineteen: Child of the Wolf and the Moon, starting with In the age before the elves the gods were as one with the world and the heavens.

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Yes, but the digital copy is some 1500 pages.

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Thanks for that :3

Just when I found it and highlighted it, the only option is "speak" no copy...

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highlight

Ctrl + c

?

Works almost everywhere...

Rod

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Except on an iPhone, where there is no inherent keyboard...
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You youngsters with your new technology.

What's wrong with a good old windows pc? :p

Rod

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Page 607 for those with all three books in one, a nice story, and it certainly gave off the myth flavour.

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@ Aicanor.
Thank you Milady. :3

I was going to type it out myself on the weekend, when I have time, and patience..

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I used the magic Rod suggested. I just needed to get the text to the right device.

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I was not going to type it out, I did do a quick search on scribd but didn't find anything ^_^

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