Opal

"We have to change our way for the better, we need to set a different example, no matter the obstacles in our way. It's what she would have wanted." - Ollah Kalibra, Sestenne of Opal

Opal is a town located along the Askalan Mountain Range southwest of Shalm, and Northeast of Coalhollow.
Founded in year 206 2V by Elven refugees from the Valkirath Forest Opal is the final point of the Larunath Seiul . The Elves that live here use their magical prowess to help elves across the twin continents escape persecution and danger, and try to make it to more peaceful lives.

History

War of the Wildwood

In the year 146 2V, the elves of the Valkirath Covenant were under siege. The western gnolls had formed a pack so large that food became almost impossible to find for them to the west, any shred of civilization on the coast had been completely destroyed. The gnollish legion swelled to the point where it marched with a number of somewhere between six to eight hundred thousand gnolls.
Having run out of food, a powerful Flind, Ubshok the Malignant killed the petty pack leaders and feasted on them, marching all the Gnolls unified through the mountains to the east. In the year 149 2V, after the bloody initial battles of the War of the Wildwood The elves were becoming restless. The gnoll threat was in their very homes, and dozens of settlements on the bottom level of the Valkirath went completely dark, leading to the Drow Half Elf Opal Moonshadow forming the first version of the Larunath Seiul, an underground railroad for drow leaving the lower level of the Valkirath forest to try and find safety on the upper levels. This led to infighting and subterfuge between the Drow and the High Elf governance on the highest level of the canopy.

Opal Moonshadow

Opal Moonshadow was born in the detritus that was the Elven bottom of society, she grew up in the City of Aenalais at the bottom level, in the dark where there is no light, to a Drow Mother, and a Human Folk Father. And was never able to see the upper levels of the Valkirath forest due to the Caste system of the Elves. She gathered a civil rights following and left the forest along with her followers, and established a lasting network of relief stations for Elves and Half Elves looking for safety before her assassination at the hands of the Azure Rose

Foundation of the Village

After the death of Opal Moonshadow one of her confidants and closest friends, Ollah Kalibra, took charge of the Larunath Seiul in the year 205 2V. She had found a safe haven on the southern edge of Khovaesha where they could live, far enough from the Forest that they would not be pursued by those of the Valkirath Covenant and also escape from the mass persecution and subjugation that Elves faced from the Human nations of Evesair .
Ollah Kalibra named herself the Sestenne of this new village and named it after her fallen friend. Now the Larunath Seiul is operated out of the village of opal by a guild of Arcane Tricksters and Shadow Monks known as the Moonshadows. They teach many who arrive at Opal how to never be seen long enough to face persecution again.

Important Information

Type

Village

DEMOGRAPHICS Drow 35% Wood Elves 20% High Elves 15% Half Elves 15% Other 15%
POPULATION 247 (Apparent) 6000 (Actual)
IMPORTANT PEOPLE Sestenne Ollah Kalibra