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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 848654" data-attributes="member: 2020">The elves were not satisfied with the near destruction of Toril.  In the end, the elves of Realmspace - the elves of the Imperial Elven Navy - assembled a massive fleet to sterilize the planet.  They called these fleets the Fleets of Retribution.  They did this because they saw that the people of Toril blamed the elves for the cataclysms that had occurred there, blamed the elves for their own demise, and hailed Forrester and his humanoids as heroes, allies, and even friends (the humanoids had grown greatly by that time.  Now, they were a civilized people, neutral and not evil, brighter than average humans, and with massive technomancy at their disposal.)  This was unacceptable to the elitist and vengeful minded elves of the Imperial Navy, so they did what they did.  It is worth noting that at this point no elves remained on Toril or anywhere in Realmspace, except in Aglarond, Luruar, Shadowdale, a rebuilt Waterdeep (the Nations of the Chosen of Mystra), and in hiding on asteroids and in remote locales.  All the others were dead or expelled.  Dead, if the humanoids or scro had caught them.  Expelled, if in the Technomancy or Eternal Union or other nations.  Obviously, the people of Toril had not been reasonable in their treatment of the elves.  That is a given.  Hate begets hate, and one retribution led to another, each bigger than the one before it.  The Elven Fleets of Retribution were the final blow, meant to end the atrocity once and for all ... with a final atrocity of complete extermination.  Although it's rather ghastly, I can see the elves - the gold elves in particular - engaging in a grudge match of this sort.  These are the elves who condemned the humanoids to exile on Winter in Winterspace, a terrible and nearly uninhabitable world where they were left to starve by the millions.  Now, of course, the scro pulled the same atrocities - but you'd EXPECT the scro to pull atrocities.  The elves should have been better than that (they are chaotic good, no?)</blockquote>

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