"Next to today's graceful dwellings lie the ruins of ancient monuments and fountains. Elves prefer to live in

"Next to today's graceful dwellings lie the ruins of ancient monuments and fountains. Elves prefer to live in small groups, in secluded settlements. The most outgoing and ambitious live in the capital, Iadara. Daily life is filled with the efforts of hundred-year-old infants seeking worthy goals, and thousand-year-old stony cynics entertaining themselves howsoever they can. That is all. It's scarcely worth mentioning that even this gloom is far more tempting than anything one finds in the lands of the short-lived."

"Next to today's graceful dwellings lie the ruins of ancient monuments and… — Kingmaker