The History Of Elves As Told By Henfer

## History of the Elves

As Written by Henfer, Historian of the Elven Army

### Birth of the Elves-

The elves were born under the protection of The Great Tree in the year 3000 BF(to our best guess). Those early elves learned much from the Lady of the Forest, Usagi. They did not have any interaction with any beings outside the forest until around 2000 BF, when they first met the dragons.

### Founding of the Binesi Faction-

As they first began to explore outside of the borders of their sheltering forest elves discovered another race of very powerful beings to the north of the forest. These powerful beings were the dragons. At first the elves were very wary of the dragons, but as they interacted the better relations went and the elves learned quite a bit that helped their peoples from the dragons. There were many elves who worried about this relationship with such a powerful race, and many openly spoke against this interaction. This resulted in a small group of elves becoming extremely close to the dragons while the majority of elves wanted to only interact with the dragons for trade. Those elves closest to the dragons truly loved them, though, and even began incorporating bits of draconic culture into their day to day lives. Thus they had these elves create a second faction and gave them the more hilly area of the fores to the northwest.

### Betrayal of the Dragons-

In the year 1100 BF, a black dragon by the name of Shungite came to the elves blaming them for the death of Kviku and the theft of the last remaining dragon egg. Kviku, the mother of all dragons, was dead and Shungite was furious. He said that when his brothers and sisters had found her body all but one of the eggs had been smashed and they smelled that elves had been there. This was of course a lie, the elves had not been to see the dragons since the founding of the Binesi faction. The elves had been home and building up inside the forest. The denial by the elves of being around Kviku at the time of her death enraged Shungite and he took his anger out by attacking the Great Tree. This in the eyes of the elves was an act of war and there could be no peace between the two. So the elves began building up an army and would later look to others as allies in the coming war.

### Founding of the Human Faction-

Around 800 BF elves began to encounter a new strange race outside of the forest that called themselves humans. Many of the elves were not impressed by their interactions with the humans in the beginning, but as they interacted more and more many elves began to adopt certain characteristics and tendencies of humans. A good majority began to not like this and didn’t like how fast the humans tended to breed, so the elves began to try and isolate from the humans. This led to disagreements within the elvish peoples and with tension rising quickly and the elves on the verge of a civil war, with the more xenophobic holding up the disaster that had come of the relationship with the dragons as an example. Eventually a great leader amongst the elves called for a peaceful compromise. The compromise was to give the elves that liked the humans a part of the forest to control and do with as they wanted and the rest of the forest not already given to the Binesi would stay with the traditionalist elves. Thus the human faction was created and the city of Nieven was founded.

### War of the Founding-

The war of the founding is the war that broke out between the elves and the dragons as a result of the supposed murder of Kviku by the elves. Due perhaps to the great age of the beings involved, this war didn't take place until thousands of years after the event it was supposedly over. The dragons were on their own in this war while the elves had the humans on their side. Later after the war the elves learned that there was a third group in this war that were also attacking the dragons at the same time and that was the vampires. There were many small battles throughout the area including some within the forest itself. Some would have this start of the war be marked at 100 BF at the Burning of the Great Tree, but many others would not call it truly a war and not just border skirmishes until the year 50 BF. The true end of the war came at a plain at the center of the Kingdom that eventually would become the home of the city of Heliene. This great battle was the first that included all 3 factions on one battlefield and the preperations involved started in 1 BF. The actual battle that decided everything took less than a day, and for many felt rather anticlimactic, if effective. The treaties of Verisamore would be signed in Heliene and the kingdom of Verisamore would be founded on this day and peace would reign in Verisamore for years to come.

### Post-War Reformations-

After the war the elves had a lot to deal with both internally and externally. The city of Nieven had to be completely rebuilt as it had been destroyed during the war. The Great Tree had been noticeably damaged as well and much of the forest had been damaged as well. The cleanup of bodies was another part of the post war dealings both in and outside the forest. For about three years the elves spent all of their time ritualistically burning their dead and repairing the forest so that it might live once again as a land not undergoing constant war preperations. Once the city of Nieven was rebuilt the Binesi faction was appointed as the standing military of the elf peoples because they were the elves that did the most in the war. Then the city of Yhendorn was constructed to the south of the forest, set to become the trading center for the elves and the rest of Verisamore to trade. With these things set in place the elves went back to normal lives within and without the forest.

### Current Century-

In the current century there are three main elf leaders, each in charge of their respected faction. All of the elf cities are thriving and elves live in mostly great luxury. There has been an increased number of half-elves being born and coming to the forest wanting to live as elves but this has been deemed illegal due to them being part human. The leader of the Binesi faction is nearing her last days with the elves and preparations for a new leader to take her place are ongoing, so when the day comes the elves will be able to get a new leader put in rather quickly. And perhaps the rest of the world may learn the well kept and guarded secrets of the Binesi faction.