Elves

Though mortal, elves are the most long-lived peoples. Born from the dreams of Protogons during the earliest ages of history, the first elves ruled western Valerna from their fabled Ellari Kingdoms, enchanted realms where wizard-lords wrote reality as they saw fit through their ancient art of Dreamshaping. For millennia these realms withstood dragon incursions, human invasions, and monster attacks, until a magical cataclysm known as the Dreambleed destroyed the ancient world and elven civilization with it.

After the Dreambleed, many elves escaped Valerna by sea, or by the dark paths of the Depths, and were lost to history. The few surviving ellari kingdoms were forced to strike a truce with their human neighbors, founding the states that would become the Kingdom of Allaria. Today, no large-scale elven nations remain on Valerna outside of Allaria in the Westerlands, ruled by half-elves, and the Arkane Dominion of mutated blue elves in the North Sea, but elves can be found everywhere as artisans, explorers, scholars, and mighty wizards.