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The Eldest Brother: A History of Malinor

Volume I: The First Sky

by Ebs Telrunya, Former Fourth Prince of Malinor ((VonEbs))


 

      Malinor as we know it began after the Collapse, an obscure event which lead to the collapse of any civilization that may have existed before 1300. When one of the symptoms of the Collapse, the erasing of the collective memory of all who survived the Collapse, wore off, High Prince Native banded together what was left of a wood elven colony, as well as the dark elves and high elves in the region surrounding Laurelin. He set about consolidating his position in Laurelin, assisting many elves in setting up lives in the capital. Very few elves are left from this time almost all having gone missing at some point during Aegis, so accounts of the early days are secondhand at best, many times having been passed from pointed ear to pointed ear until reaching the writer. By most accounts, Native picked an array of Princes to help him govern the growing elven population, some notable ones being Prince Toren the Farmer, Prince Flefal the Engineer, Princess Arianna, and Prince Lafthi the Diplomat. The mining paradise of Ravenhold was founded, home to such notable elves as Khel Oussana, Haelphon Adecchio, and future Prince Ebs Telrunya.

 

     After the initial years in Laurelin, most of the High Council, including High Prince Native, were barely ever seen in Laurelin, and the Malinor suffered. The Gauntlet, an obstacle course that offered a large minas reward, was opened rarely, and almost every elf immediately entered the Wardens or the Druidic Order upon entry into Malinor. The only functioning part of Malinor's government were indeed the Wardens, the elite defenders of the forests of Malinor. Lead at first by the ruthless Blackthorn, they protected the forests while the High Council squandered away the Princedom. Native's only notable action during this time was nearly destroying Ravenhold when he caused the mine to collapse.

 

     When Kal'Bryst was destroyed during the onset of the Undead invasion, the High Council's reaction was nonexistent. During the great northern wars, in which the humans struggled for survival against the undead invaders, the elves hid in the south, with very few participating in the defense of Alstion. The Wardens instead focused on removing Wrath from Wrath's Clutch, an Undead citadel in the South that threatened to cut off Alras and Al'Khazar from Laurelin and Kal'Urguan. Countless wardens and other elves perished in attacks on Wrath's Clutch, which was repeatedly assaulted so that prisoners being held there, most notably Princess Indelwehn, could be freed. No matter how many time the walls were breached, the forces of the United Aegis Coalition (UAC) could not dislodge Wrath until very late in the war. Indelwehn became notable for leading the wardens in the defense of Sanjezel, leading the to the signing of the Malin-Krug pact, a long-lasting defensive treaty between the Holy Princedom and Krugmar, which was signed by Princess Indelwehn and Wargoth Mogroka'Gorkil.

Malinor had a token presence in the Verge, its official settlement, overseen by Princess Lirinya, lacking utility and security. More enterprising elves and a few humans united under Viscount Ebs, who founded the city of Fionn, which flourished for a time, until all but the mentally unstable abandoned the Verge during the massive slime and spider invasion. At this time, Laurelin abandoned its old Council Chambers to allow the Mages Guild to have a place to set up away from the unstable north.

 

     For a time, Malinor had a High Princess, Sorious, the wife of Native. After her death, the High Council passed a law stating that being the spouse of a Prince does not inherently make you a Prince. Native later fell in love with the owner of the Treetop Inn, which flourished in the trees North of Malinor. The owner, Lirinya, quickly rose to prominence in Malinor, gaining the title of Princess quite quickly. Her down to earth nature and her humbleness disguised that she was Undead. Gaining trust from a besmitten Native, she betrayed Malinor, destroying Ravenhold during the rule of High Princess Indelwehn.

 

     With the appointments of Princess Indelwehn and Prince Mylas, a new generation of Elven leaders took the helm of the nation, Ebs, a high elf, and Sythra, a dark elf, convinced High Prince Native to disband the corrupted Wardens, who were being used by the cruel Prince Quazar as an aggressive force, sparking conflict with the other nations. The Vanguard was formed, with Sythra in command. With the appointment of Prince Ebs as High Prince Native's final act, the High Council, guided by the still mostly absent Princes Toren and Lafthi elected High Princess Indelwehn to the highest position in Mainor. They then added then Treelord Haelphon and Sythra to the Council, and removed the Archdruids from the Council, as in that time, the druids grove was a pit of filth and crime, all but sanctioned, and most certainly indulged in by Respiren and Dusk. This was a Golden Age for the elves, as their international power and influence waxed to a point where it could have been argued, after the fall of Al'Khazar, that Malinor was the stablest and most powerful state in Aegis.

 

     Unknown at the time of her election was a deep taint hidden in the heart of Indelwehn, installed during one of her stays in Wrath's Clutch. Her second husband, Bircalin, and her friends watched in horror as she changed. It is still not clear if she was aware she was tainted, however, she broke the Malin-Krug pact, refusing to aid Krugmar in their war against Urguan and Oren, and made a series of disastrous mistakes. She attempted to have prince Ebs assassinated for questioning her, however he barely survived, and after a year recovering in Hanseti, he returned when Indelwehn was charged with the murder of a small child. The High Council attempted to cover up her crimes, but realized she had to go, and voted unanimously to remove her, revealing to the public only that she had resigned. In a near tie, Haelphon was elected High Prince, with Sythra losing by one vote. By this point, Prince Mylas had been killed during an Undead attack, and his body had been laid to rest outside the Sister City, a suburb of Laurelin. At this time, the High Council met in the Sister City, as it was too easy to Undead spies to listen in on proceedings in Laurelin.

 

     Malinor established good relations with the Kingdom of Renatus after it emerged from the Phoenix Rebellion, but the final days in Aegis were characterized by fear among the High Council. After the falls of both Al'Khazar and Alras, refugees flocked to Malinor. Prince Ebs set up the Alrasian refugee camp East of Laurelin, but the Alrasian officers and Vanguard struggled to keep order in the once peaceful city of Laurelin. During a magical experiment by the druids and mages, Arkelos, and Undead, destroyed the Gauntlet, spreading miasma around Laurelin. As elves prepared to flee the city, the druids managed to restore the air, however the damage was staggering. The High Council, despite the pleading of a few members, refused to build additional fortifications around Laurelin, instead opting to give Deltaro Black, an elf who thought he was much more competent that he actually was, permission to remodel the front entrance to make it more"naturey." Laurelin did not stand a chance in the final battle, and as the dragons leveled the once proud jewel of Laurelin, the elves fled for the Verge, man of which were openly weeping, where they were met by the chaotic conditions, as the elven government has fallen apart. Treelord Alan managed to build an elven ship, but the travel conditions were horrid, and many elves were lost in the voyage. And so the elves set out for Asulon, to brave a strange new world full of dangers they could not have possibly conceived as they left Laurelin.

 


--Ebs Telrunya, Former Fourth Prince of Malinor

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