Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-26213507-20150715194939/@comment-1600847-20150910204947

According to "The Real Barienziah" in-game book, elves will on average only have 1-2 children in their lives. They don't breed "slower" as in longer pregnancies, but they have fewer children in total than humans, who themselves will birth fewer children, and that piles up after a few generations.