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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 3580081" data-attributes="member: 2020">The post-Solistari War situation in Delrune was not conducive to a long and happy life for anyone.  The shedding of so much blood might as well have been the fall of celestial acid onto the gutrock of the Flanaess.  The gutrock shattered, volcanoes exploded, lands cracked apart, some lands rose, and other lands fell.  Delrune had been an area of hills with a cold temperate climate.  Now it gradually sank into badlands and sordid pools, and the climate turned subarctic in the east, and subtropical in the west.  Volcanic fumes and ashfalls were common in the west.  No food imports were available.  The elves had to relearn how to produce food, with limited soil to work with, and forests tainted and poisoned.  The elves had to recover from the shock of losing their capital city and half their people in a single blow, in those numbers an equal number of civilians and soldiers alike.  Meanwhile, raiders from the wastes about struck at Delrune, Chautosbergen could not give aid (it was under attack from the illithid), and the drow struck gleefully at their weakened surface brethren.  And all the while, the threat from the Solistarim in the north, efreeti and salamander and several red dragons from the west, Acererak to the east, and a nascent illithid nation to the south (where Furyondy had been) had to be dealt with.  Further help from elven Varnaith was not possible, because Zingia and Erypt had both invaded it simultaneously, and the Scarlet Brotherhood had joined in the fun.  Nippon remained neutral, and Varnaith - as powerful as it was - was beset.  Help from Greyspace did not come.  The elven spelljamming fleet was engaged in war with the scro, and helping Varnaith as they could.  Help from other planes was summoned, as much as the elven wizards remaining in Delrune (Miralea still stood) could manage it.  But elves in other worlds had their own troubles, and generally would not send armies to help (although individuals came.)  Instead, they invited the elves of Delrune to migrate as refugees to their lands on those other worlds.  A great number of the elves of Delrune took this out, and left Oerth permanently for other worlds.  More fled on foot, travelled the wastes to Keoland, and sought shelter in the south.  Some fled to Chautosbergen, were accepted by the kindly dwarves there, and a mixed people arose there.  The remainder, eking out an existence in the ruined hills of Delrune, became militant, paranoid, and most turned from the Seldarine to the darkness for power.    Lolth appeared amongst them and offered her alliance, and the alliance of the drow, if the elves would embrace her.  Some elves - so traumatized by their situation as to be out of their minds - accepted, and some were seduced.  Eventually these elves dominated over all the others, the drow came to the surface in Delrune, and the alliance of the two races saw the rise of a Corrupted People.  Now militarily strong again, these Corrupted People fortified and entrenched, ensured their own short term survival, and - like the drow themselves - lived a generally miserable existence.  When the elves embraced the darkness, the Faerie left Delrune.  The elves, in accepting dark power, threw away their greatest remaining ally and hope.  Most of them considered it a case of good riddance.  Such was the misguided nature of these Corrupted Elves.  But that was not the end of their evolution.  Other events were yet to come.</blockquote>

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