i was playing baulders gate and i noticed the elves sound scottish why is this???????

They're Scottish elves, duh. :rolleyes:

<font color=Cadetblue>Elves don't sound Scottish, dwarves do...</font>

Must be related to the whole kilts thing.

They must be from clan McHaggis. :D

maybe because the voice actors are scottish in origin?

What's up with etriological elven questiosns this week? First we have questiosn about elven pubes and now we're attacking their accents? I've seen many an elf without a scottish accent though...

if anything they should have Nordic/Scandinavian accents. Tolkiens' (and subsequently D&D's) elves and dwarves are derived from Norse legend.

To someone from Scotland, the elves don't sound Scottish in the slightest.
Dwarves sound like a Scotty from Star Trek version of Scottish.

"The engines canna cope captain", ie Irish mixed up with some kind of American accent.

I can guarantee you the voice actors were not Scottish!.

Obviously they couldn't have real Scots doing the voices because then no one would understand them.