The Weeping War

Military action

Millennia ago, the elves of Amnestria who resided on the northwestern shores of the continent of Andeir waged war against the human nations to the south. Attempting to drive the men of the west from Andeir would not go according to plan, and the Weeping War would decimate all people.

Millennia ago, the sun elves of Elladrel who resided on the northwestern shores of the continent of Andeir went to war against the human nations to the south. As human populations began to settle into territory belonging to the elves, the elves, at first, responded by leaving those contested lands and retreating to the north. This was a tactic that the long lived races had used in the past. Their thought was to outlive the human expansion and return to the south far in the future.   Their plan did not unfold the way they anticipated. Humankind thrived and expanded. They developed roads, settled in new areas and developed new technologies and weapons of war. The Sunari elves beseeched the Numara elves, feeding their fears of subjugation by the lesser races and enlisted them to the machine of war. The Nandari elves in the neighboring forests also joined the cause of their kin.   War came swift and terrible to the humans. Although they outnumbered the elven attackers ten to one, they were no match for the skill with sword and sorcery that the elves possessed. As the settlements were razed and the humans slaughtered, other races were pulled into the great war. A few dwarven settlements, fearing the elves would not stop at the edge of mountains, joined with the humans. Halfling and gnomes, both peaceful by nature were forced into the conflict as the Sunari purged the continent of any non-elf. Many of the small folk settlements were razed as well, and their inhabitants forced to fight or flee to the southeast.   Eventually the war atrocities committed on both sides grew so severe that the Nandari elves could not justify participating any longer. Fearing reprisal from their Sunari kin, they fled far to the south, beyond places the war touched or sailed to the lands in the east. Even with the Nandari desertion, the remaining elves were more than a match for the combined armies of human, dwarf and other free folk, such was their mastery of magic.   During the last decades of the war, the great might of the Dwarven nations rose up, the stout dwarves finally roused into battle. The neighboring the nation of Ravosa sent their massive naval fleet to aid the people of the west. Loses were catastrophic on both sides, but eventually the Numara elves abandoned the ideas of war and planned to surrender. Upon hearing this plan, the Sunari elves turned on their kin and fought onward, almost to the extinction of their people.   The Weeping War officially ended when the Numara signed a treaty at Loreidell, agreeing to end all hostilities and allow the humans and dwarves to construct and man outposts along the elven borders. In exchange, the Sunari would become wards of their kin, the Numara, and would possess no army or machines of war. The people to the east, despite entering the war late, suffered terrible loses as well. The men of the west agreed to pay reparations to ease their suffering and allow them to rebuild their nation.   Corwynth and surrounding other nations formed a great alliance known as the Coridell Union, and began settling once more across the continent of Andeir. As a provision of the treaty, they did not settle within 200 miles of the elven nation of Amnestria. Those lands, with the exception of the manned outposts near the Amnestrian borders, would remain unsettled.