Appearance

Ansalonian elves are tall, lithe, elegant creatures with pointed ears, thin limbs, and graceful movements. They stand about five feet tall, although they give an impression of greater height. Most elves weigh between 90 and 100 pounds. Elves have no facial hair. Elves are considered adults from the age of 80. They live to be about 550 years old before leaving the world, though some are as much as 700 years old.

Silvanesti are fair-skinned. Their hair ranges from lightbrown to blonde-white, and their eyes are hazel. They prefer loose garments, flowing robes, and billowing capes. Their clothes are various shades of green and brown. They speak in melodic tones and move with a natural grace. Qualinesti are smaller and darker than the Silvanesti, with eyes of blue or brown and hair ranging from honey-brown to blonde. They are not as strikingly attractive as the Silvanesti. They prefer earth-toned clothing. They have strong, pleasant voices and a friendly, open manner. They prefer long dresses for women and woven trousers and jerkins for men.

Kagonesti are about the same size as Qualinesti and Silvanesti, but they are much more muscular. Their dark brown skin is traced with designs in clay, paint, and tattoo. Most have dark hair, ranging from black to light brown; elders have silvery white hair. All have hazel eyes. Kagonesti wear fringed leather clothes decorated with feathers, and adorn themselves with necklaces and bracelets of silver and turquoise.

Dargonesti and Dimernesti, the sea elves, are barbaric aquatic creatures who appear quite different from their cousins. These races have rubbery bluish skin, wide eyes with narrow pupils, and webbed fingers and toes. Although they swim well in their elven form, they can also take the shape of sea otters (Dimernesti) and dolphins (Dargonesti).

Personality

The civilized elves, Silvanesti and Qualinesti, share many basic philosophies and attitudes. Still, disputes over land or politics can make them bitter enemies, as the Qualinesti exodus proves. Kagonesti, Dargonesti, and Dimernesti are barbarians; they clash regularly with anyone not of their tribes. Despite their differences, all elves share some common philosophies:

Shaping: Elves believe in the perfectibility of nature; if they shape the world, its beauty will shine forth. Of course, they also believe themselves the most capable creatures for shaping the world. They see Ansalon as a garden in need of tending and see themselves as the gardeners. Their fierce territorialism arises from this intense cooperation with their lands. Elven protectiveness often makes them close their kingdoms to strangers. Most elves grow bitterly homesick when removed from their lands.

Foresight: Elves live for centuries and plan accordingly. Rather than glorifying or dwelling on the past, they look to the future. Their long lifespans and patient pursuit of goals sometimes make them seem cold, uncaring, or arrogant to shorter-lived races. In fact, elves deliberately maintain a distance from other races, wanting to avoid the inevitable grief of watching generation upon generation of these mortals die.

Pride: Elves, conscious of their race's achievements, take offense easily. Few other races appreciate the elvish gift of civilization, their role as the chosen of the gods, and their clear cultural superiority. Elves don't despise other races, but they are painfully aware of their shortcomings. Elves also see other races' attempts at art as crude and transient. Because elven crafts attain high standards that make them last for ages, elves point out shoddy craftsmanship whenever they find it. Tools and clothes made by other races cannot last the centuries of an elf's life.

Hedonism: Elves rarely brood over the past or deny themselves their appetites. Although they are capable of scrimping and sacrificing, toiling for irksome days as dwarves do, elves refuse to do so. If difficult work presents itself, elves engage in it joyfully. Despite (or because of) their long lives, elves seize each day as a rare gift.

Elves do feel sorrow, loss, and regret, but they don't savor or dwell on these emotions. They spend life looking forward to the next day, the next joke, and the next new friend. Even elven lives are too short for drudgery.

Racial Quirks

Silvanesti are a proud, arrogant, and stoic folk with little use for other races, including other elves. They idealize racial purity. They are intolerant of other ("inferior") races and customs.

Qualinesti are more sociable and tolerant than Silvanesti; they frequently and happily deal with other races. They do, however, share some of the Silvanesti's prejudice against interracial marriages.

Kagonesti, Dargonesti, and Dimernesti work to achieve harmony with nature for a full and happy life. They are a fiercely proud folk, hot-tempered and passionate. While these barbarians do not initiate wars or attack strangers, they are by no means pacifists.

Half-elves, raised in an atmosphere of shame, learn insecurity and uncertainty. Some few grow anti-social. Others trust strangers but have difficulty establishing true and lasting friendships. Many are natural leaders, but few feel worthy of a leader's responsibility. Regardless of their disposition, all half-elves are loners: brooding, quiet, and struggling with self-doubt. They may overcompensate for their insecurity by performing acts of death-defying bravado.

Before the Age of Dreams, high elves lived in the forests without constructing shelters. At that time they were very much a forest folk, although they had formed into elf clans and were somewhat territorial. The end of the age of Starbirth saw an end to the woodland form of existence. Forced by the threat of dragons from the northwest, the elves banded together for the first time under the direction of Silvanos. After the dragons were defeated, the elves began to settle into certain fertile regions. They constructed cities, knowing they would someday need to defend their homeland again. The layout of these cities has not changed over the course of the millenia. Each city is built in a circular, cellular form. The cellular organization of plants provides a good model for elven cities. Indeed, all constructs of elven life pattern after nature. During the War of the Lance, the Silvanesti fled west and settled on the western shores of Harkun Bay. Heie, most Silvanesti remain to this day. Silvanesti dwell in glades surrounded by dense forests. Their buildings are tall, ornate structures of wood and stone. The most striking features of a Silvanesti settlement are the low stone pyramids used as tombs for the Silvanesti dead, and the large masses of briars and brambles created by House Woodshaper and House Gardener to serve as borders. From the age of accountability into adulthood, an elf must enter his family's guild and learn a trade. Elves generally do not think of this as limiting. They see skills as generational, handed down from father to son. Long years within a safe, settled, empire have stratified the crafts and tasks into a rigid system of castes, or Houses. At the top of the system is House Royal, the descendants of Silvanos. Beneath this house are craftsmen and guild houses, such as House Mystic, House Gardener, and House Woodshaper. The House Protector, also known as the Wildrunners, serves as the army of Silvanesti. The lowest guild is House Servitor, which includes apprentices, foreign traders, indentured servants, and slaves. No one marries outside his or her guild without permission, and permission is rarely granted. Silvanesti communicate with the outside world, finding it far too transient for their liking. They also rarely marry outside their own realms. Silvanesti have endured for over 3,000 years, and have become set in their ways. Silvanesti abhor contact with humans or other races. Even their relationship with the Qualinesti is strained. Qualinesti society is far less structured than that of Silvanesti. The Qualinesti are ruled by a Speaker of the Suns who must be a blood relative of Kith-Kanan, the elven leader who established the Qualinesti. Speakers are thus blood relations of Silvanos. The Speaker serves primarily as a guiding and directing force in a government made with a senate called the Thalas-Enthia. The Thalas-Enthia is appointed to represent the various guilds and communities of Qualinesti. The Thalas-Enthia brings its recommendations to the Speaker of the Suns, who makes all final determinations. Kagonesti have no permanent settlements. Their villages are temporary structures of animal hide and light wood. They, use the boughs of living trees for construction and camouflage. Each village is home to a tribe of several interrelated families. The tribe centers around the chief - the oldest and wisest member - and his family. The chief makes all decisions for the tribe. Kagonesti have an animistic view of the cosmos: they believe that everything is alive and deserves respect. This respect extends especially to the dead, who are tressed in finery and set afloat upon funeral canoes. No society or community on Ansalon consists solely of halfelves. Although some half-elves learn trades, most drift from place to place. The Qualinesti grudgingly provide a home for half-elves. Among the Qualinesti, half-elves are treated coldly, but not are totally ostracized.

Important Gods

Zivilyn is the World Tree, a metaphysical construct used to describe the form of the cosmos. The elves envision the "realms" - the Upper Realm is the domain of sky, and it is where the souls of elves go when they die, to form the Thon-Astarin, the River of Stars. The Middle Realm is the domain of mortals, and the Lower Realm is a dry, dusty place where the dark powers of the universe live. Zivylin is most important amongst the Kagonesti, who see it as the most important of their gods. The Silvanesti place Zivilyn below E'Li, but use its structure as a metaphor for their rigid caste system. Amongst the Qualinesti, Zivilyn is left as a concept only of use to philosophers and clerics. E'Li is the Sky Lord (Aurilithalas). He is the ruler of the Upper Realm, and maintains all the machinery of the sky - he is responsible for the sun (said by the Kagonesti to be his face), for weather (especially the life-bringing rain) and the stars. Once, there was always day but ever since the war with Takhis, there is night as well. E'Li is the husband of Quen. He is often depicted as the sun, or a pine tree (as these grow the closest to the sky). Quen is the Queen of the Middle Realm. She is an Earth Goddess, bursting with fertility and life which is activated by E'Li's energising rain. The Silvanesti see Quen as subservient to E'Li, but the Kagonesti see the two as equal partners. She is commonly represented by flowers, especially blue flowers like iris. Kinis is the Lord of the Lower Realm. His realm is dry and barren, and because of these is always striving to steal Quen as his own. Kinis created Takhis as part of a plan to win Quen and destroy E'Li, but his plan back-fired. Kinis is considered to be the god of the Ogres by the Elves, and is thus often represent as a vulture, like their god. He is also seen as a grub that eats the roots of trees. Takhis is a terrible demoness created by Kinis. She proved stronger than him, however, and now she rules him and he is her puppet and slave. Takhis seeks nothing more than to rule all three realms for herself, and she is constantly battling Quen and E'Li for this. These battles are the cause of night, and of winter. Astra, known as Astarin to the Silvanesti. Astra is the son of E'Li and Quen, and he is the closest to the people of the Middle Realm. During the darkness when E'Li was fighting Takhis, Quen and the people mourned for him, for all was dark. Astra heard this and went to find E'Li, who gave him part of his power to bring back. Astra scattered this light in the sky to form the stars, so the people below would see them and know that E'Li was always with them. He is also responsible for teaching the first elves how to do magic, and how to make music. Astra is considered to be a link between the Middle and Upper Realm. He is represented as a star, or as a squirrel, reflecting his ability to climb to the upper branches of the world tree. Matheri is a complex figure, more symbolic than worshipped. He was originally a small spider who lived in the Lower Realm, but overheard Takhis and Kinis making their plans. So he climbed up Zivilyn to warn Quen and E'Li. Takhis realized that she had been betrayed and came after him. Quen turned Matheri into a rose to hide him in her garden, but Takhis found him. When she tried to grasp him, she was pricked by the thorns, and where her blood fell sprang the race of goblins. Takhis cut down the rose, but when she had gone the bud opened and Matheri stepped forth, reborn as a Mantis. Matheri represents a link between the Middle and Lower realms, just as Astra is between the Middle and Upper. He also represents rebirth and transformation.

Creation Myth

"Before time and substance, there was nothing. The High God opened a door from another place and stepped through into the emptiness. But she sorrowed, for it was a desolate place. And she lay down in chaos like a woman asleep." "Then Chislev, whom we call Nature, and Reorx, whom we call Manufacture, happened through the door to see the High God so distraught. And Chislev said, 'Make us a world, Reorx, that the High God needn't weep.' Grieved in kind, the rotund Reorx swung his mighty hammer to forge chaos into a world. Thus he created a ball of rock. Still the High God did not rise from grief." "Chislev descended to walk upon the vast and barren ball of rock. It was more desolate than chaos itself, and its rough stones sliced her feet. Where her tears fell, rivers poured forth. Where her feet bled, the salty oceans rose. When Chislev saw the rivers and oceans, she was glad. She laughed and skipped and danced across the world. Where she laughed, beautiful meadowlands blanketed the stone. Where she skipped, forests grew. Where she danced, rocks piled into huge mountains." "But still the world was lonely, for none lived in it. So Chislev stooped and fashioned from clay every creature of land, sea, and air. Once all were made, she laughed at their. small and still forms. Hearing her laughter, the figures sprang to life." "The ringing of Reorx's hammer and the sound of Chislev's laughter awoke the slumbering High God. She, too, laughed. The sound brought all the other gods through the open door -- Paladine and his six, Gilean and his four, and Takhisis and her six. They all were so struck by the new world that they began to bicker over who should rule it. Annoyed by the clamor in the heavens, the High God slammed the door and said, 'Silence!' And they were silent."

History of the Elves

The elves sprang into being from chaos as embodiments of Good. They stood tall and stately, like the trees from which they were formed. Elves believe they were the firstborn of the world. When first awakened during the Age of Dreams, elves lay scattered across the land like stars across the sky. Then, in 3051PC the passage of the Graystone altered some land elves into sea elves -- the Dimernesti and Dargonesti. Both developed cultures independent of main elven histories. They live even now in distant obscurity and peace, though trade exists between elves of the land and those of the sea. The land elves sought peace with the world, yet peace was not always possible in Ansalon. Dragons awoke in the world, some to evil and some to good. The first Dragon War brought conflict to the world of Krynn. The Ogre Wars precluded the second Dragon War (3500-3350PC), which began when elves settled in the dragons' territory. During the war, Silvanos, a powerful elven warrior and a great traveler, visited many of the elves in the deep woods throughout Ansalon. Traveling with his companion, the kender Balif, Silvanos found great suffering and death during the Dragon War. At last he could tolerate it no more. Silvanos rallied the elves of the woods, convincing them to band together. He envisioned a united elven nation and brought it to being. Thus, Silvanos gathered the previously dispersed elves. He forged a nation whose ideals and order lasted for more than two millenia, and still linger today in the courts of the Silvanesti elves. During the second Dragon War, Silvanos convened the Sinthal-Elish (Council of the High Ones) on a hill named Sol Fallen. There, many households and clans swore allegiance to Silvanos and the fledgling Silvanesti nation. Balif became a general of elven armies. In 3350PC, after the elvish victory and the second Sinthal-Elish, Silvanos build Silvanost in the former dragon woods. He granted lands to all the elves, establishing the kingdom of Silvanesti along the lines of the fallen ogre civilizations. Silvanos then wed Quinari and raised a family. Their first son, Sithel, assumed leadership of the elves upon the death of Silvanos in 2515PC. He buried his father in a crystal tomb. Sithel erected a tower in honor of his father in the heart of Silvanost. In 2308PC, twin sons were born to Sithel. They were named Sithas and Kith-Kanan; Sithas was only minutes older. Tensions continued to mount along the Silvanesti-Ergoth western border. Kith-Kanan, the younger of the twin sons of Sithel, was asked to lead the Wildrunner border elves to protect the borders from incursions. Some historians suggest that Sithas sent his twin on this task to remove him from the elfmaid, Hermathya, whom they both loved. Despite the open friendliness in Sithas and Kith-Kanan's relationship, a smoldering rivalry lay there as well. Kith-Kanan maintained the peace for nearly a century. His patience and tolerance for humans, dwarves, and other races became renowned. Yet, in 2192PC, when his father, Sithel, Speaker of the Stars, visited the frontier to sign a new peace pact, he was slain by humans who mistakenly shot at his stag mount. Sithas, the older of the twins, assumed command of the elven nation and declared war on Ergoth. Kith-Kanan was named general. Elves fell into battle against humans, with their half-elf brothers caught in the middle. This angry war scared the world for forty years. When the first battles broke out, Kith-Kanan was pledged to the Kagonesti Wildrunner maiden Anaya, Keeper of the Forest. Sadly, Anaya, heavy with Kith's child, was slain in the first battle of the coming war. Instead of dying, she transformed into an oak tree even as her predecessor Keepers had done. Despite many victories, Kith-Kanan's armies again and again failed to drive back the Ergothians, who were led by a dark, unaging wizard named Giarna. Kith-Kanan did, however, rescue the human oracle Suzine, a servant of the dark mage. They fell in love and were married. The rift between Kith-Kanan and his twin brother widened with Kith's marriage to a human. Sithas's queen, Hermathya, still coveted his brother, and his son revered his uncle Kith-Kanan. The Kinslayer War spewed blood across the Kharolis plains for nearly forty years. It was a period of long battles, vast interludes of retrenchment, starvation, disease, and death. Savage blizzards froze the armies, while fierce storms ripped capriciously through the ranks of both sides. A dreary sameness marked the war. The elves pursued the humans, attacked and slew them, and then more humans took the place of the fallen. General Giarna maintained complete control of the Ergothian forces, although his losses were horrendous. The pressure of his attacks chipped away at the elves, while reinforcements balanced his losses. A stalemate evolved, with the elves ever victorious, but the humans always avoiding final defeat. Despite this monotonous pattern, the course of the war had several key junctures. The human Siege of Sithelbec, which reduced that elven town to rubble, must be considered a decisive hour. The Battle of Sithelbec turned the tide and will always be ranked among the turning points of the history of Krynn. Throughout the war, the life of one individual best illustrated the tragedy and inevitability of the Kinslayer War. This was the human wife of Kith-Kanan, Suzine des Quivalin. Relative of the great Emperor Quivalin V of Ergoth, as well as heir to a total of three Quivalin rulers, her presence in the army of her nation's enemy served to solidify human resolve. Disowned by her monarch and sentenced by General Giarna to hang if she were ever caught, Suzine took to the elven cause with steadfast loyalty. Over thirty-five years, Suzine remained loyal to her husband as lover, companion, advisor, and wife. She was never accepted by the elves, although her two half-elf children were raised among the clans of the Wildrunners. Sadly, as is the way with humans, Suzine aged and grew old, while Hermathya remained young and passionate. It is rumored that Kith-Kanan was drawn to his former love's passion. Perhaps this explains Suzine's self-sacrificial attempt to slay General Giarna. The "Song of the Lost Sadness," a ballad of Kith-Kanan, tells how Suzine bravely confronted her former master. When he proved invulnerable to all attacks, she slew herself rather than be used against her husband. The decisive battle of the Kinslayer War wrote the final chapter to many a hero's life. Great were the losses. Parnigar and Kencathedrus fell. Sithas' son, Vanesti, suffered grievous wounds while defending his uncle from Giarna. From that day forward, Vanesti was crippled. At last Giarna met defeat. Sithas, his appetite for war lost, sued for peace with Ergoth. He granted the western realms of Silvanesti to Kith-Kanan and the Wildrunners, who had become heavily interbred with humans. And the western elves founded Qualinesti. Sithas engineered the signing of the Swordsheath Scroll between elf, dwarf, and human. The western Silvanesti elves were granted a homeland in the enchanted woods where Anaya's Tree grew. This elven state would form a buffer between the humans and the dwarves. The legendary Hammer of Kharas (Hammer of Honor) was forged by the dwarves as an offering of peace to the Ergothians. From then on, the hammer was passed annually from one nation to the next as a constant reminder of the bond of unity and peace between them. In 2073PC, the Swordsheath Scroll was signed and the nation of Qualinesti was formed: a place where the Wildrunner elves of western Silvanesti could establish their own nation. Kith-Kanan recognized this act as exile, but could find no other hope for his people. The Qualinesti reached their new homeland after the Great March, which lasted from 2050PC to 2030PC. Thus, Qualinesti was born of sorrow and hope. Kith-Kanan established his kingdom of elves and never returned east. However, not all the elves that joined Great March reached Qualinesti. Some of them were lost and arrived in the continent of Taladas. Here they founded another elven kingdom, Armach-Nesti. The Time of Light ended with the peace of Pax Tharkas, the "Peace of Friends." To commemorate that peace, the dwarves of Thorbardin and the elves of Qualinesti united to build a fortress monument on the trade route between their nations. The fortress, Pax Tharkas, was built by both races and manned by both. It ensured the peace. The nephew of Quevalin V ascended to the throne of Ergoth and an age of peace and prosperity began. After the formation of Qualinesti, the Silvanesti remained in self-imposed isolation until King Lorac Caladon established flourishing trade with the northern empire of Istar. In time, the Cataclysm sealed the borders of Silvanesti and the elves withdrew from the rest of the world. Because of the arrogant Istarian King-Priest, Silvanesti elves blamed humans for the Cataclysm. Their own isolationism made them equally to blame. Even so, the Silvanesti feel their gift of civilization went unappreciated and, in the case of Istar, became arrogantly abused. This feeling has only reinforced their distrust of humans. The Qualinesti also suffered from the Cataclysm. Other races have often raided them for food and riches. Their dreams of shaping cities other than their glorious capital are all but forgotten as they struggle just to maintain what they already hold. After the cataclysm, the elves of both Silvanesti and Qualinesti closed their door to the human and any other races. However, as Takhisis waved her power to Krynn, the elves once more were threatened by her Dragonarmies. The eastern elves were the first who feel the wrath of the dark goddess. In 349AC the Red Dragonarmies under the leadership of Phair Caron attacked the border of Silvanesti. The Silvanesti troops soon fought back, but the Dragonarmies with the help of Red Dragons proved to be more powerful, and soon the Silvanesti were forced to retreat to Silvanost. Seeing the defeat, Lorac Caladon, used the power of Dragon Orb, the magical orb that he stole from the Tower of High Sorcery of Istar. He thought that by using the Dragon Orb, he could force the evil dragons to obey his command. However, the magic of Dragon Orb is far more powerful than his own magic. In the end it was him who were controlled by the orb. The orb summoned an evil ancient Green Dragon, Cyan Bloodbane to wave nighmares to the ear of sleeping Speaker of the Star. While in the state of dreaming, Lorac whispered the words of magic. Lorac's magic strengthened by the power of the Dragon Orb caused the Silvanesti nation to twist and deform. This is the start of what is later written by the historian as Lorac's Nightmare. The twisted creatures of nightmare came alive and roamed free in the Silvanesti land. The rest of survived elves were escaped to the Southern Ergoth. Lorac's Nightmare is ended later by a brave band of companion. They are known as Heroes of the Lance. One particular red mage, Raistlin Majere snatched the Dragon Orb from Lorac's grasp and with this, the orb's control over Lorac was ended. Tragically since Lorac was too weak, he died in his daughter's arms Alhanna Starbreeze. The western elves, the Qualinesti, were not free from Dragonarmies's attacks. In the last minutes, they are forced to escaped to Southern Ergoth. Here they met with previously arrived Silvanesti. They were worked together with the native elves of the Southern Ergoth, Kagonesti, to face the coming War of the Lance. Although in the beginning this unity was very hard to be actualized. In the war, these elves joined together with Knights of Solamnia and Good Dragons. In the end the force of good finally turned the tide of war. One of the Qualinesti's Princess even became the famous Solamnic General. She is Lauranthalasa or commonly known as Laurana, the Golden General. Her brilliant strategies vanquished most of the Dragonarmies in the western and northern Ansalon. Vingaard Campaign is one of her famous strategies, recorded by Foryth Teel, the Senior Scribe of Astinus. After the land of Solamnia freed, one by one of the Dragonarmies's conquered lands freed. In the Battle of Neraka, the Dragonarmies were finally defeated, and War of the Lance ended. After the mistake made by the previous Speaker of the Stars, Lorac Caladon during infamous War of the Lance, the Silvanesti Elves works to remove all the remaining nightmarish creatures left in the land of Silvanesti. The process however took several years. They are led by the Speaker of the Sun of Qualinesti, Porthios. The Speaker of the Sun of Qualinesti nation married Alhanna Starbreeze, the daughter of Speaker of the Stars, and the two elven kingdoms was virtually joined together. However, this was not long. As the process of removing the last of the nightmarish creatures almost finished, Porthios was betrayed by General Konnal, the Householder of House Protector. He and Alhanna were forced to exile and declared dark elves. This was actually the work of the two most influence men in both countries, General Konnal himself of Silvanesti and Senator Rashas of Qualinesti. The Qualinesti's senator took over the throne from Porthios and gave it to Gilthas, the son of Tanis Half-elven and Laurana, and forced the teenage Speaker to rule Qualinesti as a puppet king. Several months before the terrible war of Chaos, the first son of the exiled couple was born in Solace and he was named Silvanoshei. With brilliant strategies and greater power, the Knights of Takhisis came to Qualinesti, and without any resistance they took over the elven land. But still they kept Gilthas ruled as a puppet king. At this point, Silvanesti was still free from the Dark Paladins. Soon the summer of Chaos arrived, and the War of Chaos started. All the inhabitants of Krynn united against the mighty armies of Chaos. Many fell and destroyed, but in the end, A group of Knights of Takhisis under the leadership of Steel Brighblade and a group of Knights of Solamnia charged Chaos himself in the Battle of the Rift. With a distraction by Palin Majere, a dagger wound by Tasslehoff Burrfoot, the kender, defeated Chaos. The defeat of Chaos brought also the grim consequences, the gods had to leave Krynn, including here are the gods of magic. Therefore the magic was disappeared from the surface of Krynn. Not long after the dreaded War of Chaos, the Age of Mortal arrived, and followed with the Dragon Purge, when all dragons fighting among themselves and devour the fallen victim to gain more power and strength. Qualinesti was soon overruled by a mighty Dragon Overlord, Beryllinthranox the Green. The elves of Qualinesti were almost wiped up by the Green Overlord. Ignoring the protests of Qualinesti's senators, Gilthas requested help from the mages of Tower of High Sorcery of Wayreth. Palin Majere with his new sorcerer power came to help the desperated elves. Together with Master of the Tower, and Shadow Sorcerer, he defeated Beryllinthranox. They could not destroy the powerful dragon, but the elves were saved. The Green Overlord, however, still conquered the forest of Qualinesti but the Qualinesti survived. On the other side of the world, the Silvanesti was threatened by the Black Dragon Overlord, Onysablet. In 11SC, by the suggestion of Rillion Dawnbringer, a mysterious elf from the House Woodshaper, Silvanesti Elves erected a magical barrier, known as Sylvan Veil. And no living thing can go in or out of the Silvanesti land. Recently Silvanesti Elves realized that this magical barrier actually draining their life energy. Land, Trees, and all living beings were drained by the magical barrier. It is rumored that the great Green Dragon, Cyan Bloodbane was also trapped inside the barrier, and now he started to terrorize the land. The same dragon that whispered a nightmare in the ears of Lorac Caladon that in the end corrupted the land. Some theory stated that Rillion Dawnbringer was actually an agent of Cyan Bloodbane. we are still waiting for the current news from Silvanesti and Qualinesti so please be ready.