#xadia

A sign at the breach will read;

"Elves. Listen and go home. This is the one warning you will get before archer fire. Our governments have signed our death warrants. We will die here. We will make sure you die here. If you are here your kingdom has abandoned you and sent you only to die._

"Your government has abandoned you. We are protecting all we love and hold dear. We will not move, we will not surrender, we will not fall. Please leave. You are being sent simply to kill and die and be disposed of. Go home and enjoy your wife, Husband and Children. Lest you let others enjoy them while you're away"

A good many human expressions are quite offensive and upsetting to elves, or at least very, very confusing. Examples include:

Corvus: I’m setting up camp as we speak, you don’t need to beat the dead horse about it.

Terry: *somewhat in tears* A dead horse?

Or maybe

Callum: but anyway, I think we could kill two birds with one stone if—

Rayla: *slightly horrified* I thought we were going grocery shopping? Do humans make that about killing things too? Is this a dark magic thing?

And my personal favorite:

Opeli: We’ll just grab the bull by the horns and—

Every elf in the room: *totally and absolutely horrified* we’re going to grab by the what now?

Certainly there are some elf phrases that slight humans a bit as well, perhaps “going west” instead of “going south” to mean getting worse; a clumsy person isn’t a “butterfingers” but a “five-fingers.”

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