Discussion Golden Apple or Silver Pear

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  1. AIm21

    AIm21 Well-Known Member

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    So I have been thinking about how Elves get their racial attribute from and I came down to their diet of eating a magical fruit grown in a special environment with abnormally dense mana as that is my only explanation without involving the Gods or Aliens.

    However, they should also be a fruit that grows on trees as Elves love to live in the forest or something. But which fruit is more suitable to a race of elves?

    If it is the Golden Apple then I could use it as the reason why humans exist in my world and why Elves are the only natural humanoid race born with magic.

    If it is the Silver Pear then I could use it as the reason why elves are the only ones that knows that manufacturing method of Mithril.

    So which fruit should I choose as the explanation to how the Elves got their racial attribute and their unique affinity?
     
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    I like the sound of silver pear. Golden apple is something I’ve seen plenty of times before~
     
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    It can be both :3
    Or a spring/fountain of energy in the elf territory. You can relate it directly to a World Tree
     
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    The pear fits elves better, I think. Or you could have multiple magic fruits for the diffrent subtypes of elves, like
    - Orchicalum Orange for Sun elves
    - Silver pear for moon elves
    - Golden apple for forest (or 'normal') elves
    - Ruby strawberry for some other elves (maybe high elves?)
     
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    Silver pear, then you could attribute mithril and magic to the moon because silver and moon tend to go together
     
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    Agecaf Grand Archmathemagician

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    Pear >> Apple. Thus Silver Pear is way better than a Golden Apple. In addition, I think it might be more suitable to identify Silver with Elves and Gold with Humans/Dwarves (Gold=Sun, Greed; Silver=Moon, Night; It's not very sunny deep in the woods). Also, Apples have a ton of other connotations (Original sin, Hercules' Trials, etc) whereas pears are objectively better as a fruit and don't hold as many preconceived connotations.
     
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    Not xianxia enough, make them Golden Sun Apple and Silver Moon Pear.:blobpopcorn_cool:
     
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    I think of black banana.
     
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    Maybe that could be for the Dark Elves.
     
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    Silver Pear.
     
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    If you want to make dark elves, you could do like, Midnight Dew, Shade Dew or Shade Mushrooms or Moon 'shrooms
     
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    Golden Apple sounds good to me.
    Since Apple is always depicted as the Forbidden fruit in a lot of media. That's my reasoning I guess.
     
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    Pear because i like pear!!!:aww::aww::aww::aww:
     
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    Silver Pear

    as golden apple generally equates to semi-immortality and rapid healing.
     
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    Rainbow mandarin, where each slice is a different elemental affinity, attuning them to nature.
     
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    GRapple OR Spear ?:hmm:
     
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    I could use that for seven siblings of Elves that ate a slice each.
     
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    If I make it be called bloody watermelon, would it makes the elves that ate it be called Blood Elves or War Elves?:hmm:
     
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    Golden apple is something that appears in greek mythology (the apple of discordia, another grew in a garden protected by a mythical creature)
    As such if you go for a western setting you should go for the apple (maybe add some satyrs and other greek elements)

    Silver pear on the other hand is an important fruit in chinese mythology, but I don't really know many chinese myths... It could give a sense of mysticism if there was a general western vibe in the region.

    Anyway, elfs give more of a western feeling, but that's just a template: you don't have to stick to it - it's your story after all (I think?)

    [pickle rick]
     
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