I don't mind playing a younger elf at all. Centuries was merely a pitch but I would presume by fantasy standards they are probably fairly long lived and thus have a lot more time to accumulate experience compared to other races. :)<br/><br/>As to our world building diverging from your envisioned setting HH, I feel a bit lost due to the extent of the devastation you're aiming for. We have coastal city state networks hanging on for dear life with small vassal settlements in attaché. So it's highly unlikely the variety of rich cultures and orders would have survived to fit the character archetypes except in very small numbers or even at all in some cases. The Circle structure has probably been wiped out at present to the point of being small clans a la the Witcher Schools and I'm not sure of the viability of a druid in an almost entirely corrupted land that she probably can't connect with.<br/><br/>I love the idea of a potentially magical outbreak centuries in the past that scholars now debate the origin of. The threat of its resurgence at present makes a fun and formidable plot arc (nature god is furious, or some dark cultists are trying to raise their leader after the first failed attempt, etc??) though the current scope feels post apocalyptic on a massive scale. I was going into this looking for perhaps a more traditional fantasy adventure with a living (no pun intended) world of dungeon crawling, tavern brawls and all sorts of shenanigans amidst the grimdark trappings. Say, the magical black death took a long time to bounce back from but now there is a mostly restored semblance of kingdoms, verdant woodlands, treacherous mountain ranges and the various cultures therein thriving. Except, of course, for one region on the map. A "here be dragons" area that never quite recovered from the plague for mysterious reasons where it's rumoured the sundered ruins and overgrown forests play home to a myriad of cursed creatures that thrive there. And that is where our intrepid heroes need to go.<br/><br/>But, yeah, I'll have to think on this to see if I can come up with anything salvageable for my muse. I very much underestimated how bad things were in the current world state.