Elven History
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History
Age of Discovery
Elves are said to be the first born children of the world, beautiful and timeless. When the first Elves came to be the world was new, there were no cities only the wild of the land and its animal inhabitants. Many of the first Elves came together and formed a small community it was there they practiced magic, their crafts and made poetry, those that did not join the community went outward exploring the lands and learned more ways to survive and thrive.
Age of Sundering
For thousands of years these Elves grew and learned much until the Sundering. A spider demon named Lloth took interest in these beings they called Elves, jealous of the Valar for having created such a beautiful race she manipulated a rather large population of Elves to break from the Valar.These Elves that had broken away from the Valar’s light to serve Lloth were deemed Drow, they became cruel and unrelenting in their service to the spider demon and in time a civil war erupted between the two factions. Eventually after a long and brutal war the Elves were able to beat the Drow back into the depth of the world and seal them there, and that is where they stay to this day.
After the Sundering the Elves realized that there was a darkness in this world that lingered and took aim at the weak. They took up arms against this darkness knowing they were the only ones capable of defending the beauty and life of the world from such evil.
Age of Peace
After the Sundering the Elves entered into an Age of Peace and met some of the first Dwarves, the two races were standoffish at first but in roughly two thousand years a great relationship formed, many Elves marveled at how the Dwarves would turn simple rock to such wondrous things. Trade and merriment was shared with these new allies.
Many more years passed and eventually the Elves constructed their first city taking some notes on how the Dwarves worked their stone. Arandor was born a great city for the Elven people to take refuge in. It was also during this time they came to an understanding that a system of leadership needed to be established thus the Elder King was created. A democratic voting system was put into place and each Elf would vote for who they thought would best lead their people and Arandor. This tradition of leadership continues to this day. During this Age of Peace many Elves honed and perfected their professions in preparation for one day the darkness of the world may spill outward once more.
Age of Chaos
The dawn of this Age came when the first settlements of men were discovered by the Elves, at first the Elves welcomed this new race to the world with open arms, they thought the humans strange and almost took pity on them for having such short life spans, the Elves offered guidance and wisdom to the humans. But to late did the Elves realize that there was a greed in the heart of men and because of such greed Arandor fell to a state of almost ruin, humans who had viewed the Elves only for their kindness tried to take the great city, not comprehending many Elves who had taught them the skills they now used against the city were masters of their art.
A war waged against these greed torn humans, in the end the Elves were forced to completely wipe out the settlement of humans with advanced Elven magic which had been practiced for thousands of years, it was an easy task and not one Elf took grimace upon it, for they knew that darkness could not sprout in these volatile creatures.
After the genocide of the settlement, Elves retracted from interactions with all other humans of the world, worrying that their greed or jealousy may heighten at the sight of Elven grace and poise. It was also during this Age the Elves discovered a tribe of wild Orc, as the Elves observed these wild beasts they came to understand the Orc could have a system of honor and maybe even be something of worth but their blood lust and blind zealotry for their dark war god Gruumsh was too much, many an Elf had perished from trying to learn more of these beasts and it came to be known that the Orc was nothing more than a chained animal and should be put out of its misery.
Marking the end of this Age of Chaos the Elves again pulled into their own lands to better fortify against the darkness that inhabited the world.
Current Time: Age Unknown
The Elves have just again began to emerge from their lands, sensing an impending darkness ready to consume the world and they being the only form of life in their own mind that can stop such evil ready themselves to face it on all sides.
