ELF ELVES

History:
A very intelligent and wise people, elves have long been prosperous and are
known to live long lives. Records can be found that dictate how the first
elves lived within the great forest of Danatha'nir which stretched from the
Dragon's Teeth Mountains east to the Dragon Sea. Within the heart of the forest
was their grand city, Alfinsham. It was a city of trees which allowed the
elves to live in harmony with Gaias children. As the elven generations became
more numerous, the city split into two cities, Ossinsham in the East, and
Greginsham in the West. All was peaceful for the elven cities until the time
of the sundering, when the hated drow turned on their surface kin, slaughtering
all they could find. The devastation was so thorough that nothing of the city
of Ossinsham remained but rubble.
 
The surviving elves fled toward the West, and new borders for the elven kingdom
were established. The elves gave the eastern region of Danatha'nir a new name,
calling it Miden'nir, the bloody forest in honor of the dead. At this time the
corruption and taint of the Forsaken desert began to encroach on the western
fringes of the Midennir. Many of the elf refugees found a home in the forests
near the city of Val Miran, while others found a place within the valley
north of the current city of Maelbrim. The elf king also took flight from the
encroaching taint and had a city built near that valley, called Shasarazade,
Stormhaven in elven tongue. Rightfully named for an infestation of goblins
lived in the mountains leading to the valley. The Goblin wars, in which elves
and goblins fought and fell in battle over the valley lasted over a decade
until finally the elves emerged victorious and claimed the valley with the
completion of the city. The elves that lived within Greginsham knew no such
victory as they were ousted from that once great city by a horde of orcs who
outnumbered the elves. It was there that the great elf king Silandriel Escabrai
was slain by the orc chieftain Grugar. However, his sacrifice gave the elves a
chance to save themselves as his last blow felled the orc chieftain even as
his head was cleaved. The remaining elves retreated to the city of Shasarazade
where the last bastion of the elvenkind stood.
 
It wouldn't be until around 900 P.C. that the elves were truly assailed again.
At the beginning of what would later come to be called the Age of Suffering, a
seemingly neverending Darkness, Famine and Disease devastated Aabahran. The
Duke and Duchess of Shasarazade had fallen gravely ill, leaving the Elven
Nation leaderless in this dire time. Things turned from bad to worse, when the
proud neighbours of the elves, the minotaurs, declared war on the elven nation,
feeling slighted by the elven priests and having been urged on by the agents
of Nexus. Leaderless and still in disarray in the aftermath of an enormous
earthquake Shasarazade was razed to the ground, the elves scattered to the
four winds.
 
It was in this dire time that the elven Princess Orelinde, who had been
preparing for the prophesized peril to come in secret, stepped forward to lead
her nation and start rebuilding what later would get to be called the Elven
Kingdom. When the Second Cataclysm was upon Aabahran, torments stalked the
lands again and the Demon Lord Malchaeius was about to bring an army of fiends
through a rift of enormous proportions, the princess Orelinde held a key
position in the events that thwarted these ambitions.
 
See also: ELF2