Usagi's Creation Of Elves And The Wounding Of The Great Tree

This is the story of The Great Hare, Goddess of the Forest, Usagi as told by Henfer, historian of the Elven Army.

She is one of two great beings of the Earth. She took the part of growing and life while her older brother Faber took the part of mountains and the underground. She first planted a tree that would grow into her home and become the center point of The Months Woods. Doing this tied her essence to the tree and from there she was able to populate the rest of the forest with more trees and other flora. Then she began to invite animals to the Forest and began to teach them her own language so she could communicate with them. Once the forest was well populated with animals, she began the long process of creating elves. She wanted to create them to be close in her image. She taught the elves many things to help them survive in the forest and told them that they were to protect this forest from danger, especially her tree, The Great Tree. For if the tree died, she too would die and the aftermath of that happening would be terrible.

For many, many years the elves lived in harmony with the forest. They held many different rituals to dedicate things to Usagi and she was grateful and loved her children. Soon though man would be born into the world and begin to influence some elves to be different from the original elves that Usagi created. Most of the elves tried to stop humans from speaking to any elf and would punish any elf trying to leave the forest to live with man. But Usagi did not want to see hate be bred into her children so she put an end to this. Thus the only thing the elves could do was compromise and split the elves into two factions, the human supporters and the traditionalists. This compromise was not the best but it was the only one that could be reached without further violence. Eventually, elves would co-exist with the other races of Verisamore without much issue. In fact, the elves had great relations with the dragons of Verisamore who lived to the north of the forest. All the elves thought very highly of the dragons and were enamored by them. Soon after the two factions were created a third would form. This faction dedicated itself to becoming even closer to the dragons. To study their lives and culture. This resulted in a small rift between the elves again but was sorted out very quickly by allowing the new faction to have the more hilly, even “mountainous” part of the forest closer to the dragons as their new home. This faction would be called Binesi Elves. They would later become the warriors and army for the elves.

Much later, tensions between the elves and the dragons would grow and come to a head when the dragons found Kviku dead and all but one of her eggs smashed. The dragons who found Kviku’s body smelled elves and blamed the elves for her death. The elves denied having even been there that day or even that month. Not known to the dragons or the elves the last dragon egg was actually in the elves hands. Kviku had contacted Usagi and asked her to send a group of elves that she trusted the most because she thought something terrible was going to happen. Usagi then hand-picked a small group of five elves from the Binesi faction and sent them to Kviku immediately.

This resulted in the dragons declaring war on the elves which eventually became a three-way war between the elf and human alliance, dragons, and vampires. One of the acts that started the war in earnest was an attack on the forest by one of the dragons and in the chaos and fighting the Great Tree was damaged severely. From this Usagi became very ill and completely reclusive. She no longer deals directly with the elves and very rarely with the animals of the forest. Though there is hope because from the priests' studies of the Great Tree we have discovered that it seems to be repairing itself. It is not known how this is being done but with hope, it will be restored and Usagi will be well once more.