@BloodySorcerer
You keep saying "Elves are known...", "are capable of", and "are usually", but what you keep saying isn't true in the works of Tolkien (origin of almost all modern fantasy elves), Dungeons and Dragons (source of almost all modern fantasy elves, especially in Japanese media), nor...
@BloodySorcerer
That's not how timescale preferences and progress work.
Humans cycle ideas very fast because the old guard dies off every quarter century, give or take a decade. That allows progress (or decline) very rapidly, because ideas go from radical to mainstream in the course of 50 years...
@greatninja3
It really kind of is assimilation though, because whether she likes it or not she IS part of that 1% and has the options of either being mostly a recluse with no social life (what she was originally doing) or learning the customs of the 1% which she has found herself a part of...
Judging by the fact the guy's armor didn't crumple under the impact of the chandelier, there's actually a somewhat reasonable explanation for what happened if you accept that Karate Baka here punched a Minotaur to death.
I mean, sure, the author probably didn't actually think of this and it's...
"which is pure fiction as in ye olde times people were regularly taxed to death"
That is pure fiction came up with by sensationalist modernists. In reality, taxes varied just as wildly back then as they do now with time and regions. On broad-brush average, however, medieval peasants paid less...