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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nephtys" data-source="post: 3788045" data-attributes="member: 31780">Cel-Candon and its sister-fortress/city Aeil-Candon are located in the north-eastern corner of Ijainvaa, in mountainous and inaccessable terrain. The two cities were both important elven strong-points before the fall and had been for thousands of years.For about half a millennia in the Age of Desolation (the time following the Godswar) Cel-Candon was the heart of a global elven empire and its people (according to their own and their allies histories) took a leading role in the healing of the world.Mystic+Canthan:[sblock]You have both heard of a somewhat darker version of that history. According to those tales, massively suppressed by the elven government, the elven arch-mages and -clerics used sacrificial magics on an unprecedented scale, wiping out several intelligent races to accomplish their miraculous feat. That those races once existed and became extinct in that period is known, but the conventional history explains their extinction with environmental destruction combined with several race-wars between those lesser races for ever decreasing natural resources. The truth may be somewhere in between.[/sblock]During the Fall (the invasion of the world by Lord Xileg) Cel-Candon was perhaps the most formidable enemy of the invaders and only trough overwhelming force and the strategic genious of Yangava was the fortress taken. The Citadel of Cel Candon is one of those rare places where Outsiders are unable to go (for reasons you don't yet know) so She had to use a combination of mortal (mostly fiendish Humans and Slave-soldiers but also early versions of the Fleshcrafted) and undead troops to gain her victory. To honour her victory Lord Xileg added the honorific The Ravager of Cel-Candon to her titles. You know, from Yangava's own lips, that the undead can no longer enter Cel-Candon, but you don't know why. Canthan+ Ysande[sblock]You have heard a few tales of General Mokninchel and his deeds in the Abyss, but nothing of his activities since the Fall. Apparently is quite a powerful Balor, but somehow crippled or twisted and therefore despised by his kin. As a result he's become one of the most hateful enemies of Ingarr (so called Lord of Balors, and Lord of the powerful domain Ramengres north of Ijainvaa) and consequently perhaps the most loyal servant of Yangava. That he is in charge of the operations in Cel-Candon says something about the importance of your mission.You know nothing specific about the reliquaries of Cel-Candon, besides the fanciful tales told to local children, but you do know that it was probably the most important seat of power in the ancient world (see above).[/sblock]</blockquote>

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