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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Green Adam" data-source="post: 3550695" data-attributes="member: 50821">The Green Adam's ElvesOK, I have permission from my ex-wife to give the low down on my Elves (necessary in my opinion since she was the catalyst for much of my development of that race in my world). Names have been changed to protect the copyright, lol...A Brief History of the ElvesAs a present to the Seelie King of Faerie, a noble Unseelie Lord assembled a group of explorers to map the newly discovered realm of Earth, the Mundane World. Intrigued by the idea, several of the great nobles of the Seelie assembled an expedition group and prepared to leave, returning with knowledge of the great beyond. The spell ritual to open the gate from Faerie to the Mundane World was powerful and difficult and required a mighty focus. That focus was the Seelie King's Crown. In a great farewell celebration, the King opened the gate to Earth and the explorers waved goodbye in glorious excitement. The just as the last traveler pasted through the breach, the Jester of the Court, son a of mad Seelie and an Unseelie hero, tapped the King's Crown off his head and it tumbled into the warp of dream and reality that rapidly closed.Now the beings who would be Elves were trapped on Earth and neither side could reopen the gate without the Crown, now lost somewhere in the cosmos.Stuck on Earth, the Elves quickly discovered it was not for them. Things aged and died.  Magic was weak and hard to control. The people were primitive and the weather unpredictable. Reality was so difficult to comprehend. So for the time they were exiled on Earth, each of the Elf Lords and Ladies decided on a different course of action. The Lady General of the Guard, sworn to protect the explorers, set up a fortress in the high mountains to defend the area where the gate had been.The Sage of Secrets, Master of Magics, worked night and day on finding a way to get back. The Lord of Crafts, Baron of Woods and Herbs and Beasts, decided if the Elves were staying for a time, they would need to learn to live off the land. They made the forests their homes and built things and spoke to the animals.The Lord of the Dark Places, Seeker of the Cold Night, searched the world for something of value to hide away. Something here had to be worth taking back home.The White Magican, Lord of Ash, Noblist of the Noble and leader of the expedition decided to travel to a bit and learn all he could about this place, it's magic and it's ways.The Lady General's son, a true explorer and knight of the open sea, set sail with several ships to explore the southern parts of the world. The Young Lady of Fish and Waves went with him.Times passed, the Elves never aged, never died, never felt right. The gate was gone and the creatures of the world developed and changed and spread. Their number increased and so did their power and the Elves remained stagnant. Until, one day, they began to fade. Literally fade away. Slowly at first, then within a few months there was less and less of them. Something needed to be done.</blockquote>

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