Kanderites

  The wildelfines of eons past were a southwestern Faeyim (modern continent of Talis) people who dwelled in scattered communities throughout the Clangold Mountains and along the Southern Bay coast.   These populations were known for two things; their wild magic (which did not adhere to any normal set of casting rules) and their never-ending conflicts. Other elfine peoples distanced themselves from the wilde, claiming them uncultured monsters and worse.   On Faeyim (modern continent of Talis), war became synonymous with their name, until the largest of the wilde clans decided enough was enough.  

  The wildelfines of yesteryear fell to conflict as easily as they breathed. Every annoyance, every argument, every political clash, ended in some sort of pitched battle.   As one might suspect, this meant that the populations did not increase like in other elfine communities. They stagnated because so many youth ended their lives on the battlefield. This also left habitations open to invasion from outsiders, like nymphs searching for the next place to flood and create a home.   For one patriarch named Ekjoverin (esh-oh-ver-in), this would not do. His power dwindled with the death of every fighter for his clan, the Kandi, and he refused to give up his prestige and his riches because all wildelfines did was fight amongst themselves.  

  Ekjoverin subsumed village after village until he reached Qidanen. Qidanen (key-dan-en) was an Eri wildelfine city, not an easily swallowed rural settlement, and they had time to prepare for an attack.   Fortunately for Ekjoverin, Qidanen's lakasiq, a man named Trew, decided he, too, was tired of fighting. They met and formed the first wildelfine treaty. This unified their peoples, and their new identity was Kanterite.   Villages, feeling vulnerable and upset that a larger community just caved, joined the treaty before they were overrun. The treaty lands expanded rapidly, until they reached the intimidating metropolis of the Hethetor, called Mestra.   Mestra did not fall. In fact, Mestra ended up freeing several of the surrounding smaller villages from the Kanderites. They set guards with advanced spellcasters around their new borders, and equipped them with the most technologically advanced weaponry of the time period, by which I mean revacom, or magic bombs. They formed a head-sized ball of fire or ice that wreaked havoc, but other elements were also used.  

  The test of the guiding treaty came when the Southern Bay sea nymphs invaded the smaller coastal wildelfine villages. Would the rest of the treaty peoples come to their aid?   The nymphs bet on no, with history as a precedent. Too bad for them, the answer was yes. An aged Ekjoverin even led the wildelfines into battle.   From me to you, the only reason the nymph invaders were not wiped from Sensour was due to the fact that they could hold their breath underwater far longer than any elfine, so effectively retreated.   The battle proved the Kanderites were a strong force when the need arose. Ekjoverin turned his sights to the Hethetor once again, but died before he could carry out another conflict. The rest of the Kanderites marked their territory bounds, gorged on trade riches, and left Hethetor alone for a few more millennia.