Glendar

home of the elves, where the entire series begins. It is the largest and most ancient forest in all Terra. While there is some grassland near the coast and occasional clearings scattered throughout, it is the forest home to both high and wild elves. This is the place many refer to when they speak of the Great Forest.

The elven nation makes up nearly ninety percent of the southern border of Iskenderun, while only a small portion if its western border is shared with the dwarven nation along the southern run of the Demon’s Run Mountains. This is where many elven princes have served for decades in the Titans’ Guard before returning to the palace to learn to rule the nation.

While most mock the elves and often refer to them as sprites, faeries, or other such unflattering terms, most are skilled warriors, trained for nearly a half century before allowed to join the elven army. Longbow and either a single long sword, or combination of long and short sword, are the prefered weapons of these lithe and lethal fighters. Still, many chose to atune themselves more keenly with the land. As a result, they are revered as rangers or druid who guard and defend the natural world.

For generations beyond remembering, the elven monarchy was led by the first pureblood son of the reigning elf king. Only when King Darlyn Zephyr took the throne and named his first born, bastard, son prince of the blood, did things begin to change. That is what sparks the civil war that opens the series.

Elves are seldom inclined toward elaborate and ornate attire. Most tend to wear simple, natural, and effective garb in browns and greens. Only for the most special of occasions do they adorn themselves with any sort of jewelry.

While they celebrate the winter and summer solstice, and the fall and spring equinox, the elves also rever every other celestial event. They can often be found dancing beneath the moon and stars on the nights of meteor showers and full moons, as well as when significant constelations apear. Elves rever the stars as their great memory-keepers.

*Spoiler Alert*

Once home to hundreds of colonies of faeries and fae kind, the ignorance of humans saw their numbers vastly depleted. Thanks, however, to King Tarak Zephyr and his rescue of the faerie queen in his youth, they have begun to flourish once again. It will take, at the least, the span of an elven generation to return to the vastness of ancient times, but things look bright for the elfkin.