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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Angcuru" data-source="post: 1485029" data-attributes="member: 10948">Welll.....The Avariel were a key element in my (as of now discontinued) story hour, and I figured it went a little something like this.  The reason they dropped off the radar for 24,000 years was because they very much wanted to be forgotten (at least for a while).It seems logical to me that they largely lived nomadic, extremely xenophobic lives, moving from place to place constantly, staying in mountainous areas when possible.  This probably went on for a few millenia, until either the dragons who were hunting them thought them extinct and gave up the search, or the Avariel found a few really good isolated spots high up in the mountains where not even the airborne dragons were searching for them.  Eventually, stationary communities were formed, and the Avariel began to gather in these areas.  They likely kept their numbers low, initially, as fewer winged elves means less chance of being discovered.  As time went by, the communities would increase in size, and maybe one or two more would be colonized/founded as acceptable locales were discovered.  During this time, Aerdrie Faenya likely used her divine influence to shield them from prying eyes, further increasing their survivability.I personally think that the sudden appearance at the Aerie of Snow Eagles was a little-thought-through attempt to bring them back into the setting.  If you are including it at ALL, (which I did in mine, still don't know why) it would likely have been one of the later Avariel settlements, and because of it's fortifiable position it was greatly built upon and established as a 'last-retreat' fortress in case of another surge of dragon attacks.ANYway, that's the way I see it happening.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> As an aside, I think that the name Avariel was given to them by humans, as it there is litte elvish to it at all.  It just sounds really cool.  It was probably derived from the elvish for 'remote elves' Avahairedhel(ah-vah-high-reh-thel), which slow-tongued humans mistook for Avariel  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  The elvish equivalent of 'winged elves' is raamavoitedhel, which just doesn't look too good for a race name, hence its non-use.</blockquote>

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