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<blockquote data-quote="Gilladian" data-source="post: 9435024" data-attributes="member: 2093">I'm looking for help/ideas to build a small elven Kingdom in my campaign world. The PCs will probably end up visiting there in a not-too-future campaign. Right now, the full text of what I know is as follows: AVENVOLE: an almost exclusively elvish holding. Avenvole is an ancient land that has mysterious legends connected with it. Outsiders rarely see beyond the outermost areas.Population is 117,000, with fewer than 1,000 being non-elvish.Avenvole is ruled by consensus. There are few laws and the only organized force is the Airraneth - the guard, which keeps the valley relatively secure. It numbers 10,000 approximately with the ability to triple in times of need. Avenvole is tied to Irgirth-Cove (This is a realm of halflings, aquatic elves and grippli (frog folk)). Greenvale elves tend to have close familial ties or friendly loyalties to Avenvole. (Greenvale is the kingdom my PCs are from, a month's river-travel to the east). Relations between Avenvole and Greenvale are cordial but distant. As time goes by and human presence grows stronger, Avenvole will probably withdraw more and more into its own resources. Note that the presence of Avenvole on the &quot;material plane&quot; reflects a much larger elvish population and presence on the &quot;fey side&quot;.Other notes that may help: Elves in my world are tied to their home plane - the Feyshadow, which was badly damaged aeons ago in a war between the Fey and &quot;somewhere else&quot;. The Fey &quot;won&quot; but their world was corrupted and is only slowly healing. They require a connection to the material plane for this healing to continue. This kingdom is one of their healing anchors.The Greenvale Expedition that the PCs are to be part of is just &quot;passing through&quot; and while they want to be diplomatic, will not be staying in Avenvole long - they're using the river as a route for exploration, kind of &quot;Lewis and Clark&quot; like. I'm interested in having the elves of Avenvole demand some sort of &quot;deed&quot; from the Expedition to pass through. What would this elven community look like, given what I've got above, and what deed would they likely require from a group of mostly human or half-elven adventurer-types who randomly appear on their border?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gilladian, post: 9435024, member: 2093"] I'm looking for help/ideas to build a small elven Kingdom in my campaign world. The PCs will probably end up visiting there in a not-too-future campaign. Right now, the full text of what I know is as follows: AVENVOLE: an almost exclusively elvish holding. Avenvole is an ancient land that has mysterious legends connected with it. Outsiders rarely see beyond the outermost areas.Population is 117,000, with fewer than 1,000 being non-elvish.Avenvole is ruled by consensus. There are few laws and the only organized force is the Airraneth - the guard, which keeps the valley relatively secure. It numbers 10,000 approximately with the ability to triple in times of need. Avenvole is tied to Irgirth-Cove [I](This is a realm of halflings, aquatic elves and grippli (frog folk)).[/I] Greenvale elves tend to have close familial ties or friendly loyalties to Avenvole. [I](Greenvale is the kingdom my PCs are from, a month's river-travel to the east)[/I]. Relations between Avenvole and Greenvale are cordial but distant. As time goes by and human presence grows stronger, Avenvole will probably withdraw more and more into its own resources. [I]Note that the presence of Avenvole on the "material plane" reflects a much larger elvish population and presence on the "fey side".[/I] Other notes that may help: Elves in my world are tied to their home plane - the Feyshadow, which was badly damaged aeons ago in a war between the Fey and "somewhere else". The Fey "won" but their world was corrupted and is only slowly healing. They require a connection to the material plane for this healing to continue. This kingdom is one of their healing anchors. The Greenvale Expedition that the PCs are to be part of is just "passing through" and while they want to be diplomatic, will not be staying in Avenvole long - they're using the river as a route for exploration, kind of "Lewis and Clark" like. I'm interested in having the elves of Avenvole demand some sort of "deed" from the Expedition to pass through. What would this elven community look like, given what I've got above, and what deed would they likely require from a group of mostly human or half-elven adventurer-types who randomly appear on their border? [/QUOTE]

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