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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 496839" data-attributes="member: 8530">Silvanost HistoryThe Knights of Silvanost convened a meeting to chose their next ruler.    They chose one from among their group who was unrelated to Serrilan and Laretinor.  Their selection was Gealdor, the grandson of Elendros, one of the other knights who had accompanied Correlon.   This choice was not without its own controversy, as the majority population had supported the choice of Atrelrathor, son of Engwahilien, another of the original knights and a cousin of Laretinor.   Following this selection the family of Engwahilien also left Silvanost, joining their fellow elves in Brondani. The selection of Gealdor provided to be a poor one.   He had never been trained to be anything more than a Knight, and soon became weary of the responsibilities thrust upon him.   He ruled for a short 300 year span.   At that point an opportunity presented itself to him, where he chose to leave the world itself, and travel off with a race that journeyed through the night skies.  Leaving behind his family and all worldly possessions, Gealdor departed from the world, and was never heard from again.Gealdor’s second wife, Queen Liriel, was a natural leader and had actually been ruling through her husband for the prior century.   She persuaded the Knights to name Gealdor’s young son from his first marriage as the next King.   King Elufin was named the 4th Ruler of Silvanost.  With the assistance of his stepmother, his rule was a great and prosperous one, and his reign lasted for over 2,000 years.    Elufin’s rule was marred by one major incident, which occurred approximately half-way through his reign.   Silvanost received word that the missing Elf Stone of Llyr had been found, and that it was in the possession of the Mengale elves.   Furthermore, the exact location of this was revealed to be in a relatively unguarded location of Mengale.  The Silvanost Knights mounted an expedition to Mengale to reclaim this stone.    Unfortunately, this proved to be untrue, and simultaneous to this the Mengale elves heard the same rumors, of the stone being in an unguarded section of Silvanost.  They too sent an expedition to reclaim the stone.   Skirmishes occurred at both locations, and there were elvan casualties on both sides.   Killing a pure-blooded elf was always regarded as the most serious of all crimes by both communities.  King Elufin was astute enough to realize that both groups had been tricked into a near war, and was able to negotiate a truce with the nine High Lords and High Ladies of Mengale (the Mengale equivalent to the Knights).  In the only recorded episode of cooperation between the two Kingdoms, a parallel investigation was launched, which revealed the instigator to be the elvan mages of Brondani led by Llyr’s daughter Llyretra.   Both Silvanost and Mengale demanded that Llyretra be given to them for trial.  The leaders of the elvan houses in Brondani refused to give her up, feeling that she had been framed by the same culprits who had initiated the original rumors about the stone.   As a result, both Silvanost and Mengale decided to permanently sever all ties with Brondani as well as to ban the mention of the name, writings and music of all twelve of the elvan houses in Brondani.  Silvanost declared that any member of the Llyr family to ever set foot in Silvanost was subject to arrest and trial for Llyreta’s actions.    Mengale took this even further, declaring that anyone from Brondani who attempted to enter their Kingdom would be imprisoned for life.   Mengale also banned the singing of any songs, from Llyr or any other bard, from that day forward.</blockquote>

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