Thar Shaddin

I suppose there is an issue with how someone, at their core, can passively feel or sense magic. In order to do that, you probably would have to have something 'inherently magical' about you because you're passively being affected by magic around you in a way different from other people. I'm not sure how that works.

I think in order to passively feel magic you might have a tiny part of your brain that's magical, or maybe just made with magic, which is absent from humans. That part of your brain would likely hijack your other senses. So you might be able to do things like "feel" the air being different or "see" auras. If magic turned off spontaneously you could have a brain aneurysm or a seizure, or you might just stop being able to feel magic for the time being, depending on whether or not the part of your brain disappears or simply stops functioning temporarily.

Whether or not this part of the brain would be present in all elves and some of them simply don't know how to access it, I dunno.

I would think that the chances of a gene jacking with the magical portion of the brain would be the same for an elf and a human, at least, if they are indeed as physiologically similar as Jacel/Val/Kit contends. That is, the chance would be roughly the same that a human would be naturally able to have magical intuition/sense as an elf would lack it.

As a corollary, I think of elves as being to humans as, to use a parallel, a Force-sensitive would be to anyone else. Everyone feels the Force in Lucas' universe to differing degrees, but something just clicks in Force-sensitives. Forgive me.

Ok, then. Based on all the arguments, it appears elves are just humans with pointy ears and longer-life spans.
Glad we have gotten this sorted out!

Now, about those gnomes and dwarves...

What about them is different from elves and humans?

I don't have a problem with there being something actively magical in any of these creatures. It's just that I need to know what it is before agreeing that it's there. Like I said above, the only reason I can see that something must be constantly, actively, purely magical inside an elf is that it seems to be the only way an elf could "feel" magic around them.

It would be consistent with the setting to say that nearly all elves have that from birth, and that few or no humans have that sort of thing.

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