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The Elven Wars

Military action

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A series of race wars fought between Humans and Elves. Humans were often the superior force, due to greater manpower and their invention of siege weaponry. However, humans suffered a crushing defeat after the Shadar'Kai swore their allegiance to the Raven Queen. After the wars, Elves became wary of humans and exclude themselves from their societies. Humans proceeded to create an era of commerce built around them.


On the Fourth of Veriar, 204, King Welias of Varkenheim, the kingdom of Humans, declared war upon the Priestdom of Amdervahl, an outlying Priestdom of the Elven race, citing his justification as "The proof of betterment of the Human race". As the war began, the Elves charged North from Felmorr, finally reaching the Human army at the Northern edge of Felmorr. As each force fought, it was clear within weeks that the Elves were the superior power, using superior magic and tactics over the humans. However, the Humans held their lines, keeping soldiers alive even after near mortal wounding in order to ensure that the Elves couldn't take Varkenheim. As each force fought, there was a decisive battle on the 29th of Tempestus, 204. One wizard, Multus Bitumin, in light of the High Moon, summoned forth a horrific entity said to have been a massive blackened amorphous shape, with tentacles coming in and out of it seemingly at will. Tales place the beast being anywhere from 30 to 50 feet tall, absorbing humans and elves alike and suffocating them in its tar-like sticky body. Bitumin managed to hold the creature at bay, keeping moderate control over its actions for months. Humans were instructed to stay behind, and thus he was often left to fight entire battallions alone, with only backup there in case he fell. He pushed nearly 30 miles into Felmorr before he allegedly lost control of the creature, which was later donned the name "The Twilit Horror". In a fight with the creature, Bitumin barely survived, after he was thrown almost a full mile into a lake North of it (which after is named Multus Loch). The creature's carcass still lays there today, burning from the flaming spells that Bitumin cast upon it. This decisive victory for the Humans cost thousands of Elves, each trying to protect the forest they lived in. Modern Chronomancers estimate that this attack alone wiped out nearly a tenth of the Elves who perished within the hundred years of war. After this, the Elves and humans fell to a stalemate, with each slowly reducing their front line forces for decades. Battles still occurred, though none were very decisive. During this time, the Humans began to create the Wolven Academy for the Gifted, and began to research siege weaponry, such as catapults and ballistae. Whilst the Humans were actively making war, however, the Elves were attempting to save their forest as a slow-burning flame from The Twilit Horror filled their lungs with smoke and their trees with holes. As each party prepared with the future, the Elves began to become overwhelmed. Their health deteriorated from smog and their opponents became stronger by the day. In a desperate act, the Elves sent hundreds of fair-born elves to the Raven Queen, tinting their skin black, turning their eyes pale, and giving them unfathomable power. The Elves, after their forbidden deal, pushed back towards Varkenheim, nearly reaching the walls. However, upon having it in eyeshot, Prince Fannil of the Elves surrendered, stating that, "No matter how much harm we may bring to you now, us Elves are the ones with true loss: our homes, our lives, and our purity. We shall leave, and you shall never bother us again, and we shalt never bother you again". And for hundreds of years, each side has held their bargain.

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