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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joanne" data-source="post: 586013" data-attributes="member: 4900">The shards are artefacts in their own right, they do lose their power when spells are cast, but regain it over time. Also, the size of the shard dictates how much power it contains. They can also combine. So if you have two fire shards they can meld together to form a more powerful shard. Thus, it would be possible to combine all of the shard in existance to reform the ancient stones the elves used, but most of the pieces lie at the bottom of the ocean. The largest shard in existance is a semi-sentient artefact called the heartstone and it is in the hands of the royal family of a small, isolated island near a the world's largest kingdom.Elven beliefs stated that the 5 moon represents the five aspects of life, so the stones were named after the moons, but they were forged out of pure magic, collecting the magical weave/whatever that surrounded the world, which is why normal magic no longer worlds on the planet, only priests and elements (if the mage controls on the shards)The elves did survive, but that is an interesting story. There were actually three different sorts of elves, according to the ancient elves. 1st were the High Elves, the ones responsible for forging the stones. Then the common elves (half-elves) and then the humans (who the elves considered part of their race, admittedly a much lower form of life).After the cataclysm, the home of the high elves was gone, and only a few scattered settlements survived. Common elves and humans were spread across the continent, so they survived and have florished. The high elves (what few survive) have retreated to a small island half a world away and are trying to forget what happened. Other race, such as dwarves, goblins, a couple of unique races, arrived on the world during, or shortly after the cataclysm and also carve out empires for themselves.</blockquote>

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