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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 494977" data-attributes="member: 8530">Silvanost HistoryWith Laretinor’s passing the mantle of leadership passed to his granddaughter Serrilan.  She rules for nearly 1,200 years, but her reign was filled with strife and dissention.    During the time since Silvanost’s founding a significant number of humans and non-Silvanost elves had found their way to the community.    Near the end of Queen Serrilan’s reign the human population of Silvanost nearly equaled that of the elves, and many of the elvan bloodlines were now being diluted with blood of shorter-lived elves, half-elves and humans.   Serrilan felt that all were welcome to live in Silvanost, regardless of race, as long as they dedicated themselves to the elvan god. A charismatic elvan priest by the name of Ilgathius Geritar declared that the humans were destroying that which Correlon Lerihian had given the elves, and that they should be expelled from the community.   Many of those of the pure blood agreed, but a large number of others did not, as these others had been with the community now for centuries and in many cases were now blood relatives.    Even the Knights were divided by this schism.   Four of the Knights agreed the priest, while four others supported the dictates of their queen.   This division was moderated by the Ninth Knight, an enigmatic Bard by the name of Llyr.   Llyr supported the Queen, but also provided council and support to Geritar to keep the racial debate at a cordial and intellectual level rather to keep it from becoming emotional and violent. This however, ended shortly after Silvanost began its fourth millennia, with the assassination of Llyr.   A group of demons had attempted to enter the elvan lands, and many of the Knights and fighters of Silvanost took to the forests to defend their land.   During the confusion of these battles, a small contingent of assassins breached the defenses of Silvanost’s capital city of Belierin.  A number of elves were assassinated, including Llyr, some of his apprentices, and the son and heir of another of the Knights, who was also the Queen’s cousin.  Each of those killed was either at or beyond the human equivalent of middle-age, which meant that they could not be resurrected, as Correlon’s blessing of a longer life only applied to a single lifespan.  To resurrect one who died, it would be as if their lives had always had the lifespan of a normal elf, so they would come back much older or not at all from such an attempt.    With Llyr gone the tensions rose in the community, and Ilgathius Geritar’s influence increased.  Rumors began on both sides in the conflict, quietly accusing the other for being responsible for the deaths.  Furthermore, Llyr’s stone was now missing, having vanished at the time of the assassination.   When the land was on the verge of a civil war Queen Serrilan finally relented, granting Ilgathious and his followers permission to leave the Kingdom and establish their own home.   The priest left, taking nearly 40% of the full-elvan populace with him, including four of the Knights and their Elf Stones.    They traveled 800 miles to the west, settling in the deep forests at a place which they named Mengale.  Llyr’s daughter Llyretra. and many of the bard’s other apprentices, were highly critical of this decision of the Queen.   For the next half-century they blamed her for not thoroughly investigating the death of Llyr, which they blamed on the priest and his followers.   They were also highly critical of the establishment and selection of five new Knights to bring the total back to nine, although only four of the original Elf Stones remained.     The elvan Queen finally became exasperated by this condemnation, and declared that the music and words of Llyr and his followers was to be banned.    This brought about outcries from several noble families, but to no avail.    Within a few years the Llyr family, and ten other prominent and wealthy elvan houses, decided that they too had to leave Silvanost and the oppression of the Queen.   They were invited to settle land alongside the human city of Brondani, situated on the southern coastline, approximately 900 miles southwest of Silvanost.   As these hundreds of elves departed many of the remaining families also began to criticize the Queen, which caused her to enact further bans.  This growing dissent grew for the next several decades, as the community began to deeply feel the loss of those who had left and the unique skill sets that they had taken with them.  The once great cities began to fall into disrepair, and an aura of despair began to take hold.   Finally, the Queen was confronted by the Knights to resolve this.   They appealed to her to lift the restrictions and to contact the elves of Brondani, and perhaps even the less fanatical ones at Mengale, and invite them back..    The Queen’s reaction to this plead was to accuse the Knights of being a group of disloyal traitors, and banish them from the royal estate.    Three days later Serrilan formally resigned as Queen, spending the remainder of her days in seclusion.</blockquote>

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