The Sylphs of Marypaz

The Sylphs hail from Meliora's outstretched left hand where it used to reach into the elemental plane of air. During The Fight Between Wilderness And Light however The Strom King sided with the Wilderness. In return the Light withdrew its creational powers and the area became hostile. When Meliora got moving not much later, a good portion of the sylphs and other wind spirits used their unique ability to move on the outside of Meliora and took the opportunity of the arm coming down for the first time to take the jump and entered Meliora's right leg through a small slit in the Pyrecall Territory - more precisely: An opening between the outside and the Blood Stone mines that due to the winds coming in now were inaccessible to most anyone that wasn't some kind of air spirit.

The Pyrecaller weren't too happy about the unannounced arrivals that now also were the only people with access to the only blood stone source in all of Meliora, the stone of wind and rain and one of the strongest magical catalysts out there, now-formerly the biggest trade good of Pyrecall. Marypaz, the chief of the sylphs, saw another opportunity, promising to have the wind right at the slit controlled in a way that would make the mines accessible again, in exchange for a patch of land for the sylphs to call their own.

Begrudgingly Krista Pyrecaller I

agreed but there was always tension between Marypaz and Pyrecaller. The latter wouldn't show any appreciation for the sylphs endless work at the slit as it took a lot of people to keep the mines save at all times and Marypaz wanted to rule over her own people again and not abide by the strangers laws. Eventually a descendent of Marypaz' had his people stop the work at the slit, killing most of the Pyrecaller workers in the mine, and thus war broke loose. The Marypaz claimed the territory on top of the mountain range that houses the blood stones and the mines and with it all its other inhabitants. And soon enough the mines too. They'd open up small portions of the mine and send their orcan miners in to get some of the blood stone out and then they would climb out the slit and secretly give it for trade to Heaven and The Seven Cities, earning themselves more than what they needed to push further inland, threatening Pyrecaller, who had lost their main income, more and more.

In the end both parties came to an agreement, splitting the land roughly in half and the mines went to Marypaz.