Portals between the Feywild and the Material Plane began to spontaneously appear, especially near the lairs of dragons. Fey creatures began to cross over into the Material Plane, initially only a few curious and adventurous individuals.
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Elven history
This is the history of the ancient elven empires.
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291900 PrC
280000 PrC
First Portals to the Feywild
Population Migration / Travel -
274900 PrC
274400 PrC
Eladrin Invasion
Population Migration / TravelAn alliance of several eladrin nobility decided to send a large host to conquer a portion of the Material Plane, and promptly fell into infighting and splintered into separate clans. These eladrin eventually became the high elves.
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271900 PrC
271700 PrC
First Material Components
Discovery, ScientificSome High elves discovered that certain spells could be cast with the assistance of common objects, and began casting spells with material components. The trick gradually spread.
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263500 PrC
263000 PrC
Dragon-Run Mining Camps
Diplomatic actionWith the discovery of and obsession with collecting gemstones, many dragons discovered that humanoids, especially Dwarves, were quite useful for extracting gemstones. Red Dragons and Blue Dragons especially made extensive use of humanoid slaves to mine rubies and sapphires and all kinds of precious gemstones.
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263000 PrC
262500 PrC
Rebellion Against the Dragons
RevolutionTired of being forced to mine gemstones, an alliance of dwarves, high elves, yuan-ti and other enslaved people rebelled, using the magic they'd learnt to fight their overlords. Many dragons were killed by their minions, others gave up on holding their slaves.
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262900 PrC
262000 PrC
Three-Way War
Military actionAfter overthrowing the dragons, the Dwarves, Yuan-Ti and High elves almost immediately began to war with each other for supremacy over the land.
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47593 PrC
Elven Invention of Writing
Discovery, ScientificElven writing evolved from artistic expression that became codified to carry specific symbolic meanings. Not only did the shapes of the symbols make a difference to the meaning - the colors and types of inks used were also extremely important.
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47093 PrC
First Wizards
Discovery, ScientificA group of elven scholars started trying to write/draw sorcerous spellcasting, and in the process learned a method to duplicate arcane spellcasting without the innate abilities that sorcerers were born with.
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6000 PrC
The Harrowing
An il'yana commander loosed vrocks that devastated the southern provinces of the elven empire.
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5500 PrC
Elven-Tabaxi War
Military actionThe Elven Empire invaded the Tabaxi Jungle, taking over a large portion of it.
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0 PrC
100 PoC
The Curse
Disaster / DestructionA group of mortal arcane spellcasters warped reality and the nature of arcane magic in an epic ritual.
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0 PrC
The Night of Blood
Era beginning/endPart of the Curse that created arcane necromancy, the night of blood was the night the Cult of the Arcane ritually sacrificed any divine spellcaster serving a death god that they could find, to steal their divine necromantic power to fuel the ritual. Specifically, they targeted followers of Paeris, Ilyrana and Inia.
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2 PoC
20 PoC
Spreading Corruption
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200 PoC
300 PoC
Age of Wolves
Military actionUnited hobgoblin tribes came pouring from the Dragon Swamps to conquer the elven empire, founding the Hobgoblin Empire in its ashes.
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