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[Necro]

I'm not sure if this is a big or feature. I went to a human occupied elven town (oddly, I when I chose to start there I ended up in the capital), where there was far more elves than humans. I noticed that I couldn't talk to the elves. Suddenly I accidentally walked in an elf's direction, and attacked him by default! Suddenly fighting erupted all over the town, with peasants and children struggling in vain against the hordes of elves. I managed to kill a few, but was swarmed.

My second adventurer got the task of killing an elf druid in that town. I went there, started in the meadhall when I entered, and found out it was crawling with elves. Om nom nom.

If this is a feature, it's cool as hell. But I suspect it isn't.

[Donkringel]

Perhaps the world gen stopped during a battle?

[Sean Mirrsen]

No, it's more like the humans overran the elves, and the elves are none too happy about humans in their towns, so they won't speak with you (you are at war with them, nominally). When you bumped into one and attacked, the elves were tipped over and started attacking humans on sight. I think it's a feature, except a town full of prisoner elves should be packed with a lot more guards that aren't un-sleep-conscious.

[umiman]

I doubt it's a feature. I've had the same thing and checked the legends. My particular elven retreat had been conquered by the humans since 19 and had been at peace for 900 years, with human rulers controlling the place and no conflicts whatsoever. The moment I created my adventurer, every single elf who was living happily till then swarmed me.

[Timst]

Maybe you were in a particular civilisation who's still at war with the elves ?

[umiman]

Maybe you were in a particular civilisation who's still at war with the elves ?

There was only one human and one elven civilization. The humans conquered and enslaved the elves. They were at peace for 900 years.

[Dr. Melon]

Aha, though. They enslaved them. Therefore, the slaves would eventually break free, peace or no.

[Dadamh]

I've had the elves attack and fight upon entering an enslaved retreat as well.  Thing is, they didn't keep fighting.  It's like some vocal minority was up in arms and then got slaughtered.

I got an elven swords...elf to join me.  "Anyplace has to be better than here.  Let's go!" or somesuch.

[Neoskel]

I think i know what happened. Those where the elves that fled into the surrounding forests. Since they like to live in forest retreats, they gather around forest retreat sites. But since they can't settle there, they just hang around.

I could talk to mine though, they all said to wait till they got home. I also once found a place where the elves told me there was no capital.

[Necro]

That's possible. The legends screen says most of them fled. Also, I noticed an elf attacking an elf child on my last visit. Maybe the child was a slave.

[Toady One]

Yeah, I haven't handled migrants yet (that was that step I skipped), so it resettles them into sites, whether appropriate or not (it tries to match the general type).  Of course, this often means they'll be sorted in with the people that evicted them in the first place.