History of the Drow

After many years of withstanding the whispers and corruption of the forces of chaos, the iron will of the darkelves breaks. The power of chaos corrupts important leading nobles in the darkelven aristocracy and makes them gear up for a war against their brothers and sisters over the Pale Tree with the promise to rule over Alendia once they possess the two important sources of power, the Mahlstrom, and the Pale Tree. Due to the lack of controls, the darkelves manage to prepare and gear up for the war without their enemies noticing it. After over 400 years of peace, in 14732 b BF, the great war erupts, a war so persistent and exhausting like none else.

With help of the dark executioners and due to the uncoordinated forces of the elves, the darkelves conquer the Pale Tree and hold it until the death of Ariil.

After the fall of Harg Garrond, the Mahlstrom unleashed a dreadful beast. A giant silvern fire-breathing flying griffon. Consumed by the forces of chaos, the griffon devastated the cities and forests around the Mahlstrom. With the help of the dark executioners, the darkelves managed to withstand the griffon, yet they couldn't defeat it. Withdrawing more and more forces from the war against the elves, they quickly lost territories and control over the Pale Tree. The griffon destroyed all twelve cities of Ariil, which resulted in an enormous overload of energy and a massive explosion. A big landmass of eastern Durarin was completely destroyed, along with a lot of cities, villages around the Mahlstrom and thousands of lives. The explosion created the Dragon-Island, which the griffon used as a hide-out. Only many years later, a mighty wizard managed to defeat the creature and freed the darkelves from it's curse.

Blaming the oracle for Ariil's defeat, Duri orders to assault and destroy it. Since this place was considered sacred, it had little to no guards. The four oracles were slaughtered in the "Duri's Night". Once more the darkelves express their cruelty and aggression, showing they have no respect for anything but themself.

A slave named Moriol was plotting an escape from the slave stables with about 50 other slaves. Being on the run from guards they submerged into the Underdark, ambushed multiple slave stables and transport and increased their number bit by bit. It took 21 years until Moriol and the major part of the movement was caught by the darkelven forces. They all have been tortured to death in 10113 b. BF.

Discovering the Mitractulum being a potential gateway to the Pandemonium or even hell itself, the dark elves start a trade agreement with Tieflings and tritons, exchanging money and weapons for monsters like Manticores, harpies, hell hounds and many more with the goal to domesticate them and use them as mounts and weapons, never been seen before, in the war against elves.

The Matriarch Velmys corrupted from chaos like none before plans to go all out on the elves. She orders to poison and corrupt the waters, the river leading to the lake around the pale tree, not with the goal to conquer, but to destroy it, leaving the Mahlstrom as the only source of power in the world of Alendia. With that order, she oversteps an unwritten boundary and for the first time, the wrath of the Pale Tree hit the darkelves. All rivers, lakes and even the water of the ocean around the darkelven territory were poisoned with just the same deadly toxin, which Velmys planned to poison the Pale Tree with. The Pale Tree sent a vision to all of her dark children, that the curse will only be taken off of Durarin, if Velmys is given the punishment she deserves.

Over more than 10000 years, the Skuttles learn to organize themselves with the help of the darkelves. Some outstanding individuals take over leadership over swarms with hundreds or thousands of Skuttle-workers. But soon those leaders realize, that they were not working for themself but for the darkelves and attempt to break the chains of slavery, using the sheer mass of individuals they had. The darkelves quickly cut down that attempt especially with the help of the dark executioners and make an example in Thala Vandar, slaughtering thousands of Skuttles, including intelligent leaders to ensure their loyalty.

Despite the construction of large undercities in the Underdark, the darkelves started to lack space for workers, slaves and soldiers. The war with the elves came to a standstill and they weren't able to conquer more territory. Therefore they attacked the human colonies in Lusitania with the result of the humans stopping the slave-trading agreement, just as any other kind of alliance with them. The darkelves conquered the Mootland just as parts of Rauland, but lost control over it to the influence of the lingering Yuan-Ti just a few years later.