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Message: <blockquote data-quote="silentspace" data-source="post: 1201446" data-attributes="member: 14316">Manzanita Sparrow -Although Shillen does have many grey elves amongst its population, Manzanita’s band of grey elves <insert name here> are not native to Shillen.  They moved here centuries ago, from the Jangis Empire.  The Jangis Empire once ruled most of the World, but had been in slow decline for millennia.  Slow for the shorter-lived races that is.  For the grey elves, it was only too apparent that civilization was falling.  Then the Kingdom of Shillen arose in the northeast, and Manzanita’s band was excited by the possibilities.  The grey elf elders were thrilled about the inclusive culture and society that was being built in Shillen, where humans, gnomes, halflings, dwarves, and other elves lived in harmony.  Manzanita’s ancestors were anxious to build better lives for themselves there, in harmony with the other races.  Shillen seemed like an oasis of peace and civilization in a world increasingly falling to barbarism.They never did quite mix in though.  Perhaps because of their cultural differences, being immigrants from a far-away place, they chose in the end to create their own small settlement in the Severin Forest (around an ancient Manzanita tree?).  They were by no means reclusive, though.  They interacted freely and often with all of their neighbors, but since they had different customs, dishes and songs, it just seemed natural that they lived separately.  They knew that in a few generations their children would mix with the rest of Shillen society, but a few generations for grey elves is a very long time.As the invasions from Goruka and Pachen got worse, <the elf band> decided to take action.  Almost all of the able-bodied elves took arms, and marched.  They joined with Shillen’s armies, and headed north to help defend Shillen.  There were only a few dozen of her people left in the Severin Forest, and a few dozen more children.  Manzanita stayed behind, since she was still a student.  When the attack came, only Manzanita managed to flee, out of the forest to a small farming hamlet.  She got a job helping out at a dwarven family’s mill, and managed to blend into the community.  That was five years ago.  She has been in Rogan ever since, working at the mill, lacking the means to avenge her peoples' deaths.Edit - sorry about all the edits - I misread part of your background and edited it to match  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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