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Elvandar is a fictional nation on Midkemia, a world created by a fantasy role-pl
aying group and popularized by Raymond E. Feist. It is home to most of the elves
remaining on Midkemia. It is located north of the Duchy of Crydee in the Kingdo
m of the Isles. The entire nation is one great forest. This nation is ruled by Q
ueen Aglaranna and Prince Consort Tomas with their advisors.
History[edit]
Before the Chaos Wars, the elves were one race, as slaves under the Dragon Lords
. The elves who tended the fields and forests were the precursors to the modern-
day eledhel, while the elves who served their masters were the ancestors to the
moredhel. The Eldar, wisest and most powerful of the elves, served as loremaster
s and keepers of treasures plundered by the Dragon Lords. They were presumed to
have perished with their masters.
There are few differences between eledhel and the moredhel. They are most distin
ct in their ways of thinking. On the rare occasion that a moredhel turns away fr
om his ways, an event known as Returning, and reaches the eledhel he is consider
ed one of them. For an outsider, from that moment on the moredhel is eledhel.
When the Dragon Lords were defeated by the new gods of Midkemia, Ashen-Shugar fr
eed the elves from their slavery and bid them to pursue their own destiny amidst
the new races, humans and dwarves, which came to Midkemia during the Chaos Wars
. The eledhel removed themselves to the forest-city of Elvandar seeking to forge
their own destiny with the lesser races. The moredhel, long influenced by their
masters' aggression, sought to regain the former grandeur of their masters by c
ollecting relics and weapons of the Dragon Lords. The glamredhel, much like the
eledhel, also aimed to control their own fate, though in a more warlike manner.
To that end they constructed two mighty city-fortresses, Sar-Isbandia (called Ar
mengar by the humans) and Sar-Sargoth. The glamredhel were later driven to near
extinction in a massive genocidal war by the moredhel, who took their city-fortr
esses.
When a rift was established between Midkemia and Kelewan, it was found that the
Eldar had survived the Chaos Wars and lived under the frozen ice of Kelewan in a
nother forest-city. The Eldar returned to Midkemia and now live in Elvandar unde
r Queen Aglaranna's rule.
During the Great Uprising of the moredhel, the last of the glamredhel were found
living in the Edder forest. The glamredhel were told of Elvandar, and they trav
elled there to join with their eledhel kin. Their king, Earanorn, now is one of
Queen Aglaranna's advisors. He has named Aglaranna's son, Calin, as his heir to
bring both races of elves under one ruler in the future.
The ocedhel are elves who originally lived on Novindus. During the SerpentWar, m
ost of them were killed; however a few survived and came to live in Elvandar. Th
e one characteristic that separates them from other elves is the fact that they
had forgotten the elven language.
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