The Crusades

The Conflict

Prelude

Anti-Elven sentiments were in effect long before the Crusades even began. Before the Crusades, Elves were in large mercenary clans that offered their services as guides and fighters for private armies. Many Elven clans fought alongside the three great Kingdoms of man, but while they were pivotal in claiming several victories, their loyalty only ever went as far as the gold took them.   Their long lifespan also later lead to humans developing a stigma that Elves would one day replace them through their long lifespans; outlasting the minuscule life of a human so that they could one day replace mankind entirely with their species. This fuelled the Mordencrast Conspiracy; an event where Noblemen demanded the Elves grant them immortality.   With the only option being persecution at the time, older Elven tribes consulted their wisest elders to grant mankind a shared long life; this, however, backfired. Mankind's desire for immortality twisted itself to Vampirism.   Elves were subsequently blamed for plaguing humanity with this disease, and the Church rallied men and women abroad to begin a crusade in protecting their Holy Land.