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[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Honestly Terry Pratchett just went back to the roots with his elves, elves and fae are basically a collection of minor spirits to gods in their own right on a mythological level they also run the mortality spectrum from the being downright nice like the green knight/green man to actively hostile to all humans. Similarly dwarves were seen as mountain gods/spirits, frankly pre-christian Europe and even post Christian Europe was so steeped in animism which is why you get so many things under such weirdly broad umbrellas.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 8 points 6 days ago

All these supernatural things had varying beliefs attached to them in different times and places... So there's really a lot of choice as to what to attribute them in fiction.

Norse dwarves weren't necessarily small, elves sometimes were, both were often magical in some way - the words used were interchangeable in some ways.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Well the green knight/ green man is famous for having his head chopped off. But also I hate autocorrect.