The War of Shattered Souls
The Conflict
Prelude
After the elves were cast out of the city of Arvandor in the year 4,963 BCW, they settled into the lands of Ossin building up homes and civilizations of great stature and beauty. The greatest of the Elvin cities were built around the four Portals of Arcane Energy of Ossin. In the northern arctic of Pomarch was the Thelascia Tribe of high elves, they were a cold and unfeeling group not unlike their sister tribe not too far south of them. The city they built was grand and beautiful with the portal found in its center. In the southern arctic the Linowensea tribe; sea elves that had built a city both above and below the sea surrounding the portal in the area. In the jungles of the Inyavas territory on the continent of Belorien the Hilothlond tribe of wood elves wove strong vines and trees into a haven for the fellow wood elven tribes. They saw the portal as the heart of their territory; treating it as a gift from the gods themselves. The final elemental portal was on the opposite side of the globe, found in what is now the southern coast of Almelar Island. Before the war, the island was much larger, with the Redwyrm Islands being a part of it. Both sea elves and high elves had settled on the island on opposite ends, building up their own defenses and cities each making a claim to the portal.
The four portals were connected to one another through the Ley Lines of the world. The arcane energy that emanated out of them provided the elves who lived near them a deeper and more intense link to the world itself. The elves were able to share knowledge, language, and ideas through the portals, and thanks to this the art of Lymrah was developed between the four portal cities. It was through the sharing that the elves split into far more distinct sub-races of High Elves, Wood Elves, and Sea Elves; languages solidified too between the three and cultures became whole. Corellon had grown proud of his creations, watching them go far and wide around the world. The four cities stood as beacons for their fellows who lived outside of them, as a guide for what their sub-race could be.
The elves that were becoming the High Elves of Thialascian had grown territorial over the portal in their area. They had been speaking with their sister tribe Thelascia for years on how they should be the one to watch over the portal on the island and that only High Elves should have access to the intense magic that they offered. Small battles were fought between them and the Sea Elves on Almelar known as the Mani Tribe, with the High Elves getting increasingly closer and eventually walling up the portal from the Sea Elves. Having lost access to the portal the Mani Tribe sent word to the closest sister tribe, the Maenor Tribe of Wood Elves in the Maestyn Mountains asking for help in restoring balance to the island and with that the war began.
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