- Elvenkind once lived north of the Boundary Mountains, but were driven south almost 5,000 years ago by some tragedy known only as the Great Sorrow.
- The elves brought their goblin and gnome servants with them south of the Boundary Mountains.
- To this day elves are forbidden to venture north of the Mountains.
- The new lands were largely wild, inhabited only by stone giants, lizardfolk, merfolk, and primitive humans led by the Druids, a caste of shape-changing priests.
- The exiled elves founded the kingdom of Norumbega in these new lands.
- The stone giants laid the foundations of the five great elf halls: Norumbega the Shining, Wintervale, Highfalls, Deepwood, and the Fair Spires.
- The goblins mined and worked metals, while the gnomes mined for gems and worked with wood. Hobgoblins formed the core of the Elvish armies.
- Nearly 1,600 years ago Norumbega reached the height of its power. The hobgoblin armies guarded the land from all trespassers.
- The goblins and hobgoblins rose up in a bloody revolution against the elves some 500 years ago. Wintervale, Highfalls, and Deepwood were destroyed; Norumbega vanished from the earth.
- Today the Fair Spires, ruled by the Elf Queen, is the last standing citadel from old Norumbega. The Spires are home to high elves, and located on a island in the Sundering Sea.
- The survivors from Wintervale, Highfalls, and Deepwood are wood elves and have their own, much diminished kingdoms.
- Most living elves were born after Southrons began pushing into the north, and many were born before the Southrons destroyed the hobgoblin empire.
- The oldest elves in the North can remember Norumbega at its height. Most communities have at least one elf who remembers the goblin uprising.
Friday, March 24, 2017
What Every Elf Knows
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