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South Elven Unrest and the Peace of Leteria

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The South Elven riots represented the greatest crisis of Eric II's reign. In the southern lands, resi…

Battle of South March

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…the most significant clash of the South Elven unrest during Erik II's reign. Here it became clear that the army reforms of Engelbre…

Magnursie — House of Renders

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The era of House Render began after the massacre of the Magnurs and the first imperial election. It was a time when the …

Alfred I the Victorious › Conquest of Waldoria, Lutharion and the first elven holdings

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…ater Lutharion and penetrated the first elven territories. It was not a single great victory, but a long chain of successes in whic…

Richard IV Friend of the elves › The elven princess and the new blood of the dynasty

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Richard's marriage to an elven princess was of fundamental importance. It wasn't just a diplomatic act. It was an ac…

Eric II Silent › Elven unrest and political marriage

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…f his reign was the unrest in the South Elven lands. Here, the Empire once again had to defend its authority as lingering tensions …

Jakob II Benevolent › Elven alliance and new knowledge

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…with the elves during the time when the elven lands were fighting against the southern desert goblin tribes. The Emperor sent two b…

The rise of the First Elven Empire and the war with the desert goblins › The world before the empire

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Before the rise of the First Elven Empire, the elves lived divided into many clan communities and smaller settlements, s…

The rise of the First Elven Empire and the war with the desert goblins › Rise of the Desert Goblins

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…gradually they began to reach deep into elven territories. Some residences were destroyed and entire areas destabilized. The elves …

The rise of the First Elven Empire and the war with the desert goblins › Uniting under Sylvar

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Repeated attacks gradually forced the elven clans to reconsider their way of existence. It was obvious that the independent defen…

The rise of the First Elven Empire and the war with the desert goblins › Elven victory at the Maple Grove

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…oblins launched another great raid into elven territories. They expected easy prey, as in the past, and had no idea that they were …

The rise of the First Elven Empire and the war with the desert goblins › Strengthening borders and a new order

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…k into their territory. Thus, the first elven empire became not only a military victory, but a stable political entity. Territorial…

The rise of the First Elven Empire and the war with the desert goblins › Legacy of conflict

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…owards the elves. The rise of the First Elven Empire thus represents one of the most fundamental milestones in the history of Ulven…

Elven suppression of the cult of Gharmoth

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The spread of Gharmoth's cult led to one of the first major religious conflicts on Ulvenor. Declaring the practice of bl…

Elven suppression of the cult of Gharmoth › The rise of dark religion

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After the death of Gharmoth, his teachings did not die out. On the contrary – it began to spread among humans and other …

Elven suppression of the cult of Gharmoth › Elven resistance

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To the elves, these practices represented an unacceptable disruption of the natural order. The cult was seen as a perver…

Elven suppression of the cult of Gharmoth › Escape to the east

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The remnants of the cult were forced to flee. The only direction they could go was east – into unexplored and isolated a…

South Elven Unrest and the Peace of Leteria › The South That Didn't Forget

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Although the former elven exodus left less of the elven population in the empire than in the past, the southern…

South Elven Unrest and the Peace of Leteria › Victory without glory

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Eric II he did not have the nature of a great conqueror, but he benefited from the army left to him by Engelbrekt. It wa…

South Elven Unrest and the Peace of Leteria › Leteria as the face of the truce

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… move. Erik was offered the hand of the elven princess Leteria. This marriage did not mean full reconciliation between the worlds, …

James II's Elven Alliance

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James II's Elven Alliance represented one of the most important diplomatic events of the Silver Age. T…

James II's Elven Alliance › Help the elves

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The elven lands were facing pressure from the southern desert goblin tribes at this time. Jakob…

James II's Elven Alliance › Knowledge instead of gold

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The elves didn't just reward their help with political favors. New knowledge of special herbs, healing, and ways of conj…

James II's Elven Alliance › Long term impact

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The Elven alliance was not just a one-time military aid. It created a bridge between the two tr…

Elven victory at the Maple Grove › The last big raid

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… launched another large-scale attack on elven territories. For generations their raids had been successful and yielded easy prey, s…

Elven victory at the Maple Grove › Sylvar and the Elven Rangers

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Sylvar led the united elven forces personally, relying on her elite units - the elven rangers. These cloaked arch…

Elven victory at the Maple Grove › Destruction of the goblin tribes

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…was weakened and disorganized, the main elven forces attacked. What followed was not an even battle but a systematic defeat. Accust…

Elven victory at the Maple Grove › Consequences of victory

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…ve confirmed the strength of the united elven empire. It showed that their new political order is not just a reaction to the crisis…

Battle of the Hultwin River › Elven supremacy

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The elves chose the battlefield carefully. The more open space around the river allowed for the deployment of fast caval…

Magnursie — The First Decline of the Empire › The Southern Blows and the Elven Exodus

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…fully manifested. Discrimination of the elven population, long unrest and harsh interventions by the imperial administration led to…

Magnursie — House of Renders › Southern Elven Unrest

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…estion opened again to Tiche. The South Elven unrest showed that the wounds inflicted during the previous centuries had not been he…

First Elven Empire › Historical Events and Periods

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An ancient empire of the elves.

Elven Blood in the Dynasty › Dynasties and Bloodlines

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The presence of elven descent in an imperial or royal line.

Great Elven Empire › First Empire of Ulvenor

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The Great Elven Empire arose in the year -25000 of the imperial calendar and is considered the first …

Great Elven Empire › Sylvar and the Unification of the Elves

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…of the forest. Thanks to this more-than-elven power she was able to persuade several old elven tribes, who had lived in the souther…

Great Elven Empire › Colwurken, City of Trees and Crown

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…the land. Colwurken became the heart of elven rule, the place of coronations, of councils, of teaching, of art, and of the keeping …

Great Elven Empire › Victory at Maplewood

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…s at the Battle of Maplewood. There the elven rangers made such perfect use of the knowledge of the forest, of movement among the t…

Great Elven Empire › Strength and Shadow of the First Queen

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…d years, which is extraordinary even by elven measure. She could heal trees, sense the pain of the land, and understand beings whom…

Great Elven Empire › Trial of the First Queen and Exile of the Opponents

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… was to preserve the strongest possible elven race and to build a united empire in which all her people would live under the shelte…

Great Elven Empire › After Sylvar

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After Sylvar's death the empire was shaken, but it did not collapse. The elves chose a new monarch, King Handuil, and we…

Great Elven Empire › Landscape of the Elven Empire

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The Great Elven Empire is covered, for the most part, by forest. Roughly ninety percent of its countr…

Great Elven Empire › Life in the Empire

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The inhabitants of the Great Elven Empire are, for the most part, vegetarian. They grow herbs, fruit, vegetables, grains…

Great Elven Empire › Retreat of Borders and the Decline of Influence

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For a long age the Great Elven Empire was the greatest and mightiest realm of Ulvenor. Its influence stretched from …

Great Elven Empire › The Great War and the Question of the Future

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The greatest blow to the elven empire was the Great War with human Magnursia and the later Empire. This conflict all…

Great Elven Empire › Ancient Southern Forests

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…art of a wider balance. The forests and elven culture form a single whole. The elves do not dwell in them as foreigners in the land…

Great Elven Empire › Hultwin River

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…mportant historical battlefields of the elven world. It was here that Pender the Strong, the goblin unifier whose ambition could ha…

Great Elven Empire › Sickness of an Old Tree

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One of the trees in the Ancient Southern Forests, said by the elves to remember the time of Sylvar, has begun to blacken…

Richard IV Friend of the elves

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…identity of House Magnur. He married an elven princess and thus united the imperial family with the blood of one of the continent's…

John III Prolific

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…he had to face protracted unrest by the elven population, who felt aggrieved and discriminated against by the local administrators.…

Eric II Silent

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…ects. However, he had to face the South Elven riots, which he was able to successfully suppress thanks to a modernized army. He sub…

Jakob II Benevolent

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Jakob II succeeded following the decision of his father Theodore I, who preferred him over his paralyzed younger brother…

Edward I. Banished

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Edward I succeeded his father Oled I, but his reign was fraught with suspicion from the start that his entire line was b…

Sylvar

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…er who was able to unite the fragmented elven nations and create the First Elven Empire. Her rule changed the history of Ulvenor an…

Enhih

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Enhih was an elven warrior who defeated Pender the Strong at the decisive moment and ended the first gob…

Letteria

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Leteria was an elven princess who became the second wife of Emperor Eric II. Her marriage to the Emperor f…

The rise of the First Elven Empire and the war with the desert goblins

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…he desert goblins forced the fragmented elven nations to join forces for the first time in history. Under the leadership of the Syl…

Elven victory at the Maple Grove

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The decisive clash between the First Elven Empire and the Desert Goblins. At the Battle of Maplewood, Sylvar and her elite range…

Adventurers Guild

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The most widespread and approachable guild in Ulvenor, which serves as the first stop for novice adventurers, travelers,…

Magnursie — House of Youlenders

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The Youlender House Era is the longest late period of the Magnursar Empire. It began after the Third Imperial Diet and b…

Age of the First Empires

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…Sylvar laid the foundation of the First Elven Empire. The dwarves in the mountain halls formed an underground kingdom and establish…

Interracial Laws › Laws, Reforms, and Institutions

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Laws governing relations between races.

First cultures and kingdoms

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After the long events of the biological division of the races, there was a period on Ulvenor in which the main role was …

Elves and the First Kingdom of Ulvenor

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The Elves were the first race to go beyond a purely tribal society to form a true kingdom with a dynasty, territorial ad…

Unknown Western Continent

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The Unknown Western Continent is one of Oia's greatest mysteries. It lies far beyond the Green Sea, and Ulvenor has almo…

Unknown Western Continent › Elven Song of the Western Light

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An old elven text contains verses that may suggest Sylvar came across the sea. The elves reject th…

Division of the Empire of Magnursar

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…rld fell. In the south the empire meets elven memory, former kingdoms, old forests, and territories that may appear on imperial map…

Division of the Empire of Magnursar › Southern Hold

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… human administration touches the older elven world, forest borders, former Waldoria, and the territory of Lutharion. The southernm…

Heartlands of Magnur

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The Heartlands of Magnur form the immediate core around the capital and represent the oldest territorial foundation of M…

Heartlands of Magnur › Southern March

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The Southern March was always the most agricultural part of the Heartlands of Magnur. Its fields, granaries, and market …

Free Kingdom

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The Free Kingdom arose in the year 294 of the imperial calendar as the result of a southeastern uprising against the Emp…

Free Kingdom › Yellow Plains

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The Yellow Plains, historically named the Golden Plains, form the southeasternmost region of the Free Kingdom. They are …

Great Elven Empire

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The Great Elven Empire arose in the year -25000 of the imperial calendar as the first true kingdom or…

Great Elven Empire › Maplewood

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…mportant historical places of the Great Elven Empire. It was here that it was decided whether the new state of Sylvar would become …

Magnus III Young › Family, marriage and branching of the family

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…olitically extraordinary union with the elven princess Morthara gave birth to Konrad, who eventually became the ruler of the elven …

Philip I. The Thinker › Children and the opening of the world

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…already thinking. Alfred studied in the elven lands and after his return became one of the most important advisers of the court. Al…

Magnus IV Merciless › Spring coup and the fall of the tyrant

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… died. Norsak's second wife fled to the elven lands and married an elven prince there. This also closes the circle of Magnus' life.…

Otto III Weak › A regent who became a king

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…orc tribes were pushing the nomads, the elven territories were under pressure from the desert goblins, and the old balance was slow…

Richard III Sword of Magnursia › The elves enter the war

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In -109, the Great Elven Empire entered the conflict. This changed the war forever. For the first time Magnurs…

John I. Fiery › Battle in Hell

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…ame in -85 near the town of Jiskra. The elven warlord Cuilother, one of the most skilled commanders of his time, decided to strike …

Alfred I the Victorious › Power Limits and Forest War

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… most clearly shown during campaigns in elven lands. Elves abandoned the open conflict model and switched to a guerilla style of wa…