The reaction to the controversial Kosharv Development highlights a number of fractures in elven and Protectorate society.

I was born 3,500 years ago. I built a large family; I lost a lot of people I care about. Elves who survived the Vampire War generally didn’t care for the book, feeling it lacked much of the spice and punch a novel should have. The older characters especially didn’t feel old.

Though some authors have taken to vandalism. They toss in references to Kosharv city being burned down since they feel the book ruins the grim tone of The Far Reaches.

For elves born after the Void Generation, the reaction improves.

They grew up hearing stories of the horrors of ancient Peldor but never experienced it. The author, Marian Rojeck, was born after faebeasts had been rendered extinct. His generation has only known a time of elven unity, and the enemies are sapient aliens within bursts of controlled violence between states. They’re inherently more hopeful and secure in their position, focused on personal growth and development rather than day-to-day survival, and this was reflected in the Kosharv Development.

For some, they regret being denied the chance to prove themselves in the crucible of Peldor and seek battle.

For others, war isn’t an existential necessity with conquering heroes facing down hordes of mindless faebeasts, it’s a regrettable civic duty. They either stand in line and shoot annoyingly loud muskets while getting shot in return, or they charge into melee and slaughter humans too small and weak to defend themselves. War isn’t heroic, it’s state-sanctioned murder.

Some older elves have considered this work to be soft and un-elflike, but it’s the kind of world we worked so hard to build for our children.

The alien reaction was the standard “there are too many words.”