#so after displacing the elves they then hired all the elves as extremely underpaid and exploited miners

[dilfpassing]

Thinking about how when I was in middle school I thought I was the most original person in the world for coming up with the idea of cave elves in some intense political fantasy story I was writing only to find out that I did not in fact come up with the concept of cave elves and the high political drama of elves bring displaced and crammed into cities and discriminated against was literally exactly the setup of dragon age origins

#i was soooooooo mad when i played dao the first time bc i was like FUCK MY IDEA ISNT ORIGINAL ANYMORE #my world was basically dragon age but closer to the industrial revolution and with cave elves instead of regular elves #they were displaced from the caves they lived in because the surrounding cities wanted to mine for raw materials bc of the new high need for #metals due to the changing technology #so after displacing the elves they then hired all the elves as extremely underpaid and exploited miners #my story took place one generation later so now theres a bunch of cave elves who were born in the city and their perceptions of home are #different from their parents bc theyve only ever known the caves as a source of money and also torment #but thats all just the backdrop for the actual story that would be taking place which was all about learning to trust and finding a personal #identity once you heal from your traumas