I figure the peasants are more half-elven than anything, and that the farther you are from the capital, or the more you associate with the mortal types, the shorter your lifespan is, sort of borrowing from Dragon Age where elves were once immortal, but adapt so easily that being around the 'shemlen' or 'quick-children' brought them to age and die.
Ooh- now there *is* a thought. Halflings and half-elves are the peasants, but there are elven nobles to oversee things, at what is basically a punishment post out in the world. Rome, Greece, Japan, China- every big civilization had a tendency to see being away from the heart of their own culture as a punishment.
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I figure the peasants are more half-elven than anything, and that the farther you are from the capital, or the more you associate with the mortal types, the shorter your lifespan is, sort of borrowing from Dragon Age where elves were once immortal, but adapt so easily that being around the 'shemlen' or 'quick-children' brought them to age and die.
Ooh- now there *is* a thought. Halflings and half-elves are the peasants, but there are elven nobles to oversee things, at what is basically a punishment post out in the world. Rome, Greece, Japan, China- every big civilization had a tendency to see being away from the heart of their own culture as a punishment.