Elemental Clans

The Elemental Clans, or Phoenix Clans are clans of nevreans who are "infected" by Talyxian symbiotes. There are nine such clans as of now; seven Earendelian clans (earth, fire, water, metal, nature, light, dark), which are split into two groups; (earth, fire, water), and (metal, nature, light, dark), and two Icarian clans (wind, lightning).
The elemental clans once lived in northern Nevrea, sometimes peacefully, sometimes fighting wars amongst themselves. However, in RC 33, with the genocide of the Western sergals, all nine clans fled to Gold Ring.
== History of the Elemental Clans ==
Timeline of the Elemental Clans
Year 	Event
circa BRC 1000	Earendel, a nevrean explorer to the Vetla Forest, got infected by a Talyxian symbiote, becoming the first elemental nevrean. At this point, he possessed seven elemental powers at once. Earendel's seven children each inherited just one elemental power, and each founded a separate Earendelian clan.
circa BRC 950 	Each clan had grown to at least a dozen members by now, and they had started to gather nevreans and western sergals as citizens of small villages centered around them.
circa BRC 750 	The second nevrean explorer to the Vetla Forest to be infected by a Talyxian symbiote, Icarus, gains two elemental powers at once. Icarus's two children each inherited just one elemental power, and each founded a separate Icarian clan.
circa BRC 700 	The Icarian clans grow rapidly. Seeing this rapid growth, the Earendelian clans forbade any further nevreans from exploring Vetla with the fear that more and more clans would pop up and challenge their power. This would mark the start of nearly 500 years of building tensions between the clans.
until BRC 241 	Various minor wars and skirmishes occurred between the clans, and in the meantime, the Earth, Fire, and Water clans started to drift closer and closer to their supposed Icarian rivals.
BRC 241 - 228 	First Great Phoenix War - 500 years of pent-up tension between the clans finally exploded, and the Earendelian clans went to war against the Icarian clans, before the Earendelian clans split into two opposing sides, producing a three-way war, with the Earth, Fire, and Water clans somewhat more aligned with the Icarians;
Earth, Fire, & Water VS Metal, Nature, Light, & Dark VS Wind & Lightning
Victors: Earth, Fire, Water. The Earendelian clans split into two groups.
BRC 187 - 154 	Second Great Phoenix War - The four clans that lost in the first war were unhappy with the trio of clans that betrayed them and still hated the Icarian clans for challenging their power centuries ago, and an ambitious young leader, Pouehi, rose to power in the Dark Clan and declared war on the Icarian clans with her allies. Eventually, the Metal and Nature clans also revolted.
Metal, Nature, Light, & Dark VS Wind & Lightning
Victors: Wind and Lightning
BRC 153 	In the aftermath of the Second Great Phoenix War, the elemental clans were full of "impure" nevreans who had multiple elements due to intermixing between the clans, and agreed to go into a period of isolation, where each clan did not meddle with each other to prevent further wars, whilst purging the "impures" to live alone in Vetla.
BRC 3 	After 150 years of isolation, the clans reopened relations, though distrust remained high between the clans.
RC 33 	After Rain Silves and her Shigu army started their genocide of the western sergals, the clans banded together to fight off a common enemy and to protect the western sergals that they ruled over. In the fighting, some clans took heavier losses than the others.
RC 34 	Eventually, as the clans fell one by one, the remaining inhabitants of the Elemental clans fled to Gold Ring in a mass migration, with most of the commoners living in the Outer Ring and clans living in the Inner Ring, except for some clans whose clan leaders decided to be more humble and settle in the Middle Ring and lift some of the commoners up into the Middle Ring alongside them with their wealth.
RC 34 - 70 	The Elemental clans' nevreans tried to lay low to avoid being found out, working mundane jobs whilst being discriminated against the whole time. The Wind Clan tried to move back to Nevrea and built Starlight Observatory at the site their former village stood.
RC 70 - 100 	The Elemental Clans rediscovered each other in Gold Ring and decided to work together. Some clans had been reduced to fewer than ten or twenty members by now, and have yet to recover from the war.
== Earendelian Clans ==
=== Fire ===
Number of members in RC 100: 102
[WIP]
=== Earth ===
Number of members in RC 100: 83
[WIP]
=== Water ===
Number of members in RC 100: 92
[WIP]
=== Nature ===
Number of members in RC 100: 18
[WIP]
=== Metal ===
Number of members in RC 100: 2
[WIP]
=== Light ===
Number of members in RC 100: 5
[WIP]
=== Dark ===
Number of members in RC 100: 3
[WIP]
== Icarian Clans ==
=== Wind ===
Number of members in RC 100: 76
[WIP]
=== Lightning ===
Number of members in RC 100: 61
[WIP]
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