Juglans Cloven

Cloven is directly responsible for the animosity between wood elves and dark elves. Through his genius he single handedly brought the rise of the biggest Elf terrorist group known as Cloven's Flame.

## History

### Childhood

Juglans was, per say a shining diamond in a sea of stars. Unfortunately brilliance was drowned by his predecessors; where he could invent a new theorem about plants in 10 months, his professors could do so in 5. However this did not make him jealous, or even envious. In fact it made him proud to be in the shadows of genius, admiring the grandeur of Wood Elves. His father and family loved him for trying hard and nurtured him well: teaching him politics, psychology and diplomacy. It was safe to say he was prepared for a stable life.

### Coronation of Bah-Meena

Initially hearing Bah-Meena's rather anti-wood elf manifesto, he and his parents as proud wood elves protested against the coronation of the controversial and illegitamate emperor.

"Mother, why are we despised just for being wood elves? Aren't we better than them?"

"Yes dear, and never forget that. We will always be proud of our race."

It's funny, promises. People can make them with intention but forget the meaning behind them, after all a promise only matters when the other person takes it to heart and doesn't forget. However, this was the only thing Juglans remembered, as the last promise of his mother.

### The Massacre

Juglans was doing job interviews that day and was told in the same interview that his charisma would land him as politician in the dream conservative party he wanted to help. He rushed home to tell his parents, who strangely weren't there. So, he waited. And waited. Night had past and his parents did not come home. The village was quiet too, the professors that packed the universities with their lectures werent as many. This veil of silence continued, until one newspaper broke free from censorship. The Second Ancient Elf War had begun.

There was always conflict between wood elves and the high elves. This hatred stemmed from the racial divide that entire eons of warfare had cultivated. This was especially not helped by the coronation of Bah-Meena who promised more land for the High Elves, and only sparked more arguments and insults between the fundamentally same race.

On that unfortunate day however, a high elf could hold back his disgust for the wood elves mocking his family any longer. With one swipe of a wooden sickle that was unfortunately clear, the conflict had begun. Queen Bah-Meena quickly saw the outcry from the wood elves and made her choice. All of the garrisons opened fire on the protestors with the intention to kill. The wood-elf protestors died by the dozen that day, including Juglan's mother and father.

### Acceptance into the Tribes of the Elves.

Following the failures of the wood elf army in the onslaught of High elf advancement, Juglan's home was captured, and he was forced to flee. Luckily for him a charity was set up by pacifist elves consisting of all elf branches to take in refugees of any elven war. He soon rose through the ranks due to his intelligence and enthusiasm in helping fellow wood elves. This was quickly noticed by the leader of the charity himself, Txi Agnello, who was a fellow Wood elf. Historians could agree that without a doubt, Tribes of the Elves could have become one of the greatest peace organizations, had it not been for his following actions.

### Hidden Hatred

Juglan could never get over his hatred of the high elves for slaughtering his parents, nor the dark elves for ignoring their own brethren. He knew he could not let his thoughts exit his mouth and lose the trust of Txi. So, he began quietly, slowly stirring newly arriving wood elf refugees, whispering about how the defenceless children left behind in villages were slaughtered, and how their bed-stricken grandmothers were sold to the orcs by the high elves for feast, or some sources even say the refugees believed the dark elves to be working hand in hand with the high elves to curse the wood elves for being superior. The vast number of refugees arriving soon made the majority of the Tribe of the Elves the Wood Elves. With this overpopulation in what was essentially a homeless shelter, Juglan convincned Txi to let him handpick a security detail, the Cloven's Flame. However, Txi Agnello soon became aware of the changing attitudes and introduced his own bodyguards, the Falinn Ulfa.

### The grab for power

Juglans respected Txi. He was building the charity out of compassion for all races including wood elves. However, his hatred of all other elves grew when he saw Txi allowing in the occasional High Elf soldier who had been badly wounded. He started advancing his indoctrination of new refugees and training his security force personally, compared to Txi who was spending his time allocating resources to rebuilding towns. Both knew something was going to happen soon, but only one was prepared. A brief brawl between a high elf and a wood elf occurred during a barrage of racial insults hurled against one another, this was quickly hushed by Juglans to assure Txi, but mysteriously Txi never found that high elf again. The treaty for the Third Elven War served not as a sign of relief, but a further chokehold on the Wood Elf economy, and heightened hostility.

### Night of Tears.

It was never meant to happen, the Night of Tears. Juglan's force weren't ready to take on the dark elves. However, one indoctrinated wood elf was drunk and patrolling the boundaries of wood elf territory before chancing upon the Village of the Moon. Due to the open racism, the wood elf threw the rest of his drink onto a wooden building and set fire to the alcohol. The moderately small tribe of dark elves did not have a combat force yet, and rushed away from their burning houses.... before running across the boundaries of the wood elves. Using the lack of communication to his advantage, Juglans used his authority to overwrite Txi's command to hold fire, instead commanding all forces to "self-defend" against the invading dark elves. Hundreds of bodies were littered around the burning Village of the Moon and the sheer controversy of the command made all dark elves leave Tribes of the Elves.

### Confrontation

Txi confronted and arrested Juglans with his security guard consisting of both high elves and wood elves immediately after the attack.

"Why"

"Whats wrong, **Sir"**

"You know they did nothing to us"

"Nothing?"

"Yes nothing, they were minding their business until your men SET FIRE TO THEIR HOME. I trusted you with security because I thought you were competent."

"Ah but **Sir**! Is ignorance not the greatest sin as they too watched our cities burn, and fade into ashes?"

Txi could not refute the point Juglas had but he knew he had to eliminate Juglas before he could grow any further.

"Guards, I've heard enough execute him."

He looked around to see all high elves of his bodyguards with their throats slit and the wood elves standing over their corpses.

Juglas chuckled:

"Loyalty sure is a funny thing"

The traitor Falinn Ulfas forced Txi on his knees while also cutting Juglas loose.

"It's time to make a speech don't you think".

### Conversion

The unsuspecting Txi supporters heard the announcement of a speech by Txi, but instead of a grandiose speech: he was on his knees in chains while Cloven did the talking.

"From this day forth, our magic shall do our talking. Our arrows shall be our argument. Our swords to be our greeting. There shall be no more compromises, or peace treaties. They murdered our blood, our families; so they shall in turn feel their blood stained hands gripping the noose we hand them"

On the night of the takeover, all Txi loyalists banded together to fight off the extremist Cloven faction, but they were outnumbered by both men and willpower. Eventually they were all captured, those who failed to convert were executed; and the non-wood elves were not even given a choice before being hung.