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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ralts Bloodthorne" data-source="post: 2928440" data-attributes="member: 6390">Avellerum EmpireAccording to legend and elvish claims, this is the spot where Eden once stood, and they guard the gates to thier paradise (False) from all who would dare desecrate it. The elves claim that the Empire is over 10,000 years old (true) and was the first civilization on the face of the world. (False)1,200 years ago, drow from Wee-Jas arrived on ships and torched, burned, looted, and murdered across the shore for approximately 250 years. WIth Corellon not answering thier prayers, they attempted to convince a sea god to protect thier shore, by sacrificing several hundred mermen to him.Posidean grew angry and ravaged the coast with hurricane after hurricane, destroying trees, causing the rivers to flow backwards, and tearing apart the elven cities. For 100 years any elf who came near the shore was devoured by a sea predator, no matter how unlikely. (A travelling halfling merchant once saw a Great White Shark leap out of a mudpuddle, snap an elf in half, and disappear into a gutter. Stirring the gutter with a stick produced no shark, and the halfling swore off alcohol and pipe weed for the remainder of his life.)Elves claim that the sea air chaps and damages thier skin. (False, but Posidean takes malicious glee in sending elven sailors on strange voyages)500 years ago, humans crossed the mountains, and the elves watched as the humans moved into the lands that Posidean's wrath had destroyed. The storms lessened and stopped, and the land was liveable again, much to the elves jealousy.After 450 years, a son was born to a woman who claimed to have been visited by Pelor in the night, repeatedly, for over a month (true) and this babe grew rapidly from infancy to full adult within a week (False, it was actually 5 years) This person, Machevel the First, combined the settlements under his banner, and took war to the elves who were supposedly raping human women. (False, it was Corellon, who would get drunk at a local tavern in human guise, pick up a woman, and, well, you know)Within 20 years, the forest had been burned back to the present levels, and many thousands of elves were slaughtered. Human steel had proven the equal of elven magic again, and reluctantly, the elves had to adopt steel.That was within a generation, so many of the older elves still stew bitterly about the fact that some trumped up mortal who didn't even live 100 years crushed thier military so thoroughly, and many plot to destabalize the human kingdoms around them.Non-elves are scorned and looked down upon by the elves of this land. Despite the fires and axes of the human armies, the elves of this Empire still live in tree cities.The Empire is ruled by the Emporer, who comes from the Imperial Family. The nobles are all elected on the basis of wealth donated to the church of Corellon every 50 years, ensuring that only the wealthy and powerful have wealth and power.With the example of human kingdoms, many of the younger, and even middle aged, elves of the Empire are leaving to see what they can make of themselves. Recently (20 years ago), the Emporer decreed that any elf gone longer than 20 years is no longer a citizen of the Empire. This decision was highly unpopular.Currently the Emporer plans on having himself declared a God.Relations with Machevel are strained at best, with the embargo of wood to that nation irritating the God-King to no end.This kingdom uses Japanese Architecture in thier tree cities, and dress in the style of the late Incans.Elven is the only language allowed to be spoken by people within the Empire. Those that speak anything else, as per a law passed some 15 years ago, are imprisoned and eventually ejected across the border.</blockquote>

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