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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 499291" data-attributes="member: 8530">Silvanost HistoryKing Elufin’s reign ended 215 years ago, at the Battle of Tulisar.   This decisive battle pitted the Elves of Silvanost and their human allies from the northern Kingdom of Alloria against a combined army of orcs and ogres led by a quartet of evil wizards.    Despite his advanced age, Elufin was still a great fighter, and believed it his duty to lead the Silvanost troops into battle as he had always done before.  Although slain in the battle, Elufin’s death served as a rallying cry for the Silvanost elves, who did not want their King’s sacrifice to be in vain.   The elves and humans won the day, with the wizards retreating, taking with them fewer than half of their forces.Despite the victory at the Battle of Tulisar, the war continued.  Silvanost’s army commander, General Maelfellinor, declared martial law.  The General would not permit the Knights to begin deliberations to choose the next ruler, stating that a military leader was currently needed to address the immediate threat of the war.   Under Maelfellinor's rule, many victories followed, with the elves retaking territory that had been held by the enemy.   After two more years of war the enemies were vanquished.   The Knights then approached Maelfellinor to lift the martial law and return to civilian rule. The General refused, citing that danger still existed and that this was not the time for change.The General’s repudiation of any change including retaining control of the Kingdom of Tauralda, the land immediately west of Silvanost.   The enemy had occupied that land during the war, and when the Silvanost troops forced them out the General then put his own occupying army there to help restore the peace.   However, after peace and order had been reestablished in Tauralda General Maelfellinor refused to remove his army, declaring that Tauralda was to be annexed as an expanded region of Silvanost.    To say that the General’s proclamation did not go over well with the residents of Tauralda would be an understatement.    While this Kingdom had a large elvan population, and had always maintained cordial relationships with the neighbors, their culture was one that revolved around the worship of human deities.    The General declared that from that day forward only Correllon Larethian was to be worshipped in Tauralda, and had all other places of worship boarded up and sealed.   The General immediately found himself to be the most hated man in the new kingdom, which only caused this stubborn man to spend more time in that territory, in his attempt to force the population to accept him and his dictates.  He established the Tauralda King’s Palace in the capital city of Weyeth as his new headquarters.The General’s decrees were particularly hardest on Weyeth.  Over two millennia earlier the apprentices of the bard Llyr had been forced to leave Silvanost in order to continue the practice of their music.   While many of these students had gone to Brondani, some had settled instead in Weyeth, in order to be closer to their family and friends in Silvanost.    During the passage of time since then the Llyr College of Music had grown in size and prominence, becoming the top bardic college on this region of the continent.    General Maelfellinor issued a proclamation that Silvanost’s ban on all music of Llyr was to strictly enforced in Tauralda, and all written works of the bard were to be burned.    The college closed, and most of the faculty and students fled north to Alloria, reestablishing the college there.  The Headmaster of the college, an elderly elf named Quevarin, refused to leave.  Quevarin was the last surviving apprentice that had worked with the great Llyr, and said that it was his duty to stand up to injustice.    During the General’s next grand parade through the streets of Weyeth, which all of the population were required to attend, the elderly bard made his way to the center of the street and stood directly in the path of the approaching General.   The General commanded Quevarin to move aside, to which the defiant bard began singing one of Llyr’s songs instead.    The infuriated General had been brandishing his sword during the parade and his immediate reaction was to plunge it into Quevarin’s chest, instantly killing the older elf.   Shocked at the murder of their most beloved citizen, the populace started to riot.  They began throwing things at the General and his troops, who had to make a hasty retreat towards to the palace.   The riots continued for several days, during which time a number of elves were injured.  Peace was finally restored only after the General had two battalions of troops brought in from Silvanost.    The General next ordered the population out to witness another grand parade.   What happened that day was officially declared an accident.    The General and his entourage were approaching a large crowd along the main street of the city as a young boy moved towards the edge of the curb to get a better view of them.   The boy had in his hand a bag with over 100 marbles; each made from the same type of stone as the cobblestone street.   The bottom of the boy’s cloth bag was frayed, and as the boy held the bag tight it ripped, the marbles rolling out onto the street.   The General did not see the small round objects that blended in with the street, and stepped upon them.  He immediately fell backwards onto the street, releasing the sword had been waving as he fell. The Sword of Sharpness sailed high into the air and then fell back to earth, landing directly through Maelfellinor's neck, killing him.    While rumors persisted that claimed to have overheard an incantation or two being said during this accident, nothing was ever proven.</blockquote>

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