Valin Oakthorn
Vagabond Extraordinaire
Wait, so I was right the first time?Than please tell me why they can't touch their plants? I'm genuinely confused.
Way Way Way Way back when, when all of the stuff happened with the earth bones and stuffs, azura whispered some secret and so Y'free was all like "Haha, im so gonna tell my people yo secret" and so he went to the wood elves and started a little gossip train in and when you heard the story, you were able to defy the earth bones and change your shape. So the wood elves, which were once beasts were all like "lets be elves" then went through a second level Pokemon evolution, and to thank Y'free, who was like the god of foresty valenwoodnes, they all cut themselves, and shook hands saying "We aint gonna eat no trees no more, cause thats bad" So obviously some stupid shaman thought he was better than every one, and tried to eat a carrot. So the Shaman went through a third level Pokemon evolution into a giant beast who ate EVERYTHING (I assume its a play on the fact that he wanted to eat more stuff, so now he ate everything" He ate every living thing he saw, and once his passive ability wore off, he ate himself. So then everybody knew not to eat the dang plants, but whenever valenwood went to war and started losing (like usual) They all drank/ate the figurative cool-aid/Lettuce and committed mass suicide, but effectively ate the other army.... and then their own... and then each other... and then themselves.
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Kinda, necessity isnt quite the correct word. necessity would fit if they could only eat meat and valenwood had no animals. The thing is, very very very few wood elves actually are cannibals, some of the ones in the past were, and so the race as a whole got labeled for it.