Aerinyes

A basket arrives in Solace, attached to it is the letter that Queen Kyral had sent. On the back of the letter is scribbled a simple phrase, "Your god didn't help these three. This is the fate of those that violate Elandriel."

May you clarify that this is by Player (MCName) or Character? For example, may a player on one character attack a settlement, changename and skin, and then do it again the next day on another character?

Sythra points to 'Ash' as she leaves. That is what you call a 'Half Human' an elf that has coupled with one of humanity and has been tainted by their lies and their corruption. Let it be known that all elves that wish to return to Malinor will be welcome to do so and encouraged. They will be received as lost loved ones and family. However, those that wish to stay with their human masters will be shunned and treated the same as that 'half human'. Now is not a time for our people to be divided, we must unite against the threats that this world imposes upon us. Only united will our culture grow and thrive in this unrelenting and cruel world that surrounds us. In times past, diplomacy was our solution. There were many instances that mistakes and misjudgements were made by us. Never before did Oren take such vile measures against us. Instead they opened channels of talk and peaceful resolutions. This is no longer the case. The empire has shown that it does not wish diplomacy, only wanton violence and submission. Like the orcs and their slavers, humanity too wishes to enslave our people. But it is even worse then that. Instead of a few elves here or there for simple profits, they wish to subjugate all of our kind. This is why the half humans exist. They are the product of humanity's tampering with poor elves that fall into their slimy grasp. I ask everyone this, do you wish to remain free? Do you wish for your culture to survive and flourish without humanity's corruption? What of your children? We have long been cursed with very few to continue our lineage, each life being precious and each child being the finest treasure any elven parent could obtain. Do you wish to see Humanity take that away? I have long urged the High Council to be vigilant in their dealings with the humans. I knew even as your High Princess that humanity could be a danger in some form. Unfortunately we misgauged the threat they actually pose. Never did I think in their emperor's lifetime would I see such violence and depravity. It is not the fault of the High Council for these raids and destructive attacks on our sovereign territories. They were misled by the honorless humans spreading lies from the simple serf to the emperor himself. Not even an elven week ago was it that it was requested that an embassy be started again in their capital of Arethor. They used such a request as a ruse to mount a surprise attack on Normandor. As a response left by another said, "time is on our side." We must be prepared to weather this storm brought on by humanity. In time they will wither and perish to the passage of time while we remain vigorous. Perhaps the children's children of humanity will have greater wisdom than their fathers. But we must prepare for the consequences that they are not.

It is not a simple group or even a single nation that is a threat to our kind. But it is the whole of Humanity. Humanity is the reason why the lands in the west are in disarray, humanity is the reason behind much of the grief and sorrow you all see today. They crusade across the lands citing verses to a false god. They murder and they plunder all that is not like themselves. They are intolerant, volatile and harbor outright monsters such as the orcs, the White Roses, and the Syndicate. Let it be known that the humans of the Empire will no longer find safety or respite within the borders of the Holy Princedom. They will only find despair and ultimately death. And know that the Mali do not distinguish between serf, gentry, noble, or emperor in these proceedings. I advise all Sentinels to escort all humans not associated with the Holy Princedom to be escorted out. Those that resist be met with unceremonious death in accordance to our laws. These recent acts of brutality will not go unanswered.

By the way. The issue of a central RP area for the elves will be addressed in 3.0. I cannot go into specifics, but this is a concern on the minds of the build team.

Laurelin was actually much much larger than Normandor. The area you remember was the northern district. It was added on after Laurelin got larger. Also not all of the Princes and Princesses lived there. Sythra if you remember lived outside Sister City near a beach (which was actually wilds).

((Oh no, I earned my freedom :mrgreen: )) ((She lives far from the affected areas, they'll be sure to look into it.))

Keep in mind everyone that you will not be getting a prebuilt area just for your clan/house, or even the subrace in general. If the dark elves get their own city it will have to be decided after 3.0 is launched and done so through RP. There's been a few misconceptions here and there about that, I hope this clarifies things.

Austin is making a good move here. He probably could have worded it differently, but at the end of the day, he is trying to improve things. Its very easy to explain why a elf lives in Malinor, a Human lives in Oren, and a Dwarf lives in Karik. Its logical to assume the same thing with Orcs in the War Ugz. Now with that said, things do change. However its very unlikely that a server application would allow a whitewash orc. They do (to my knowledge) filter out orc characters that wish to be different (and if they don't they really should consider it). Therefore when a player makes a whitewash, its usually after the whitelist. This is what Austin is trying to figure out. Did these orc characters start in his nation and then become whitewashes? If this is so, why? Its his job as a nation leader to figure out why someone would leave his nation, not someone personally persay, but why people in general would want to leave. If many are leaving for the same reasons, it gives him a base to work with to make changes as needed. What the concern is, people just wishing to play with other races. Perhaps they like the culture better. Maybe they have friends there. My advice is to reroll that particular race. Alot of the time, people roll a character then end up making a new character that is an orc and just chooses arbitrarily to be a whitewash. That is where many of the concerns are. I'm sure Austin would like to know why people are doing this. Why they would wish to play an orc outside orc culture. He also wants them to make sure that they understand the consequences of their actions. IC actions have IC consequences after all. Unfortunately he is only giving the consequences that comes from other orcs, and neglected to say what other races might do. I'll speak for the general leadership of Malinor. Whitewashes are quite simply hated more than regular orcs. They are seen as one of two things. Spies from the War Ugz, or a Psychopath. To the elves, the war is a political endeavor, they do not hate the orcs on a cultural level (even if they say speeches and such that contradict that). They see the whitewashes as exiles from a culture. Psychopaths who resist their own kind and their beliefs. There is only a few reasons they would do this. 1. they are simply crazy which makes them dangerous, 2. they have done something despicable, so vile that the orcs even hate them, such as undead/Iblees worship, and 3. they are fugitives, criminals and traitors to their own kind, we see them as if they would betray their own kind, they have no problem doing so to anyone else. I'm sure the dwarves would have similar feelings. Hiebe can probably comment more on that if he wishes. Humans are probably a little more accepting, but who knows? They are a religious people and may consider them vile monsters too, but that is up to their leaderships. Playing a whitewash means playing a general exile. Going to need to more than likely live in the wilds. That is if the nations are playing the game properly too. Perhaps a movement to get them on the ball too will help the issue. This isn't to harp on or punish the ones playing whitewashes. The lore is there and the lore should be followed. Lore supports there being whitewashes, but it is a hard life, one that the player should consider carefully before engaging into it.

Sythra looks puzzled at Seth's comment. I fail to see how elves would see our kind as 'evil' especially when it was our Mali'Ame and Mali'Aheral cousins that placed Khel in his position in the Sentinels. In Malinor, the Mali'ker have always been welcome. I am very close with many of the council and many others that are not Mali'ker themselves. I don't believe what you are saying will come to pass. Unless of course you are speaking of Haelun'or but their opinions mean very little if anything here. They are not part of the Princedom.

The reason we sought a peaceful resolution over war with the Mori was because they could meet with us in a civil manner. The orcs have never proven to do so. Even in peaceful talks, they use veiled threats. In Aegis we never had peace with the warborn. They had an agreement with the Wardens which had their own leadership that wasn't subservient to a prince. And even then, the warnation used them as a tool in their little conquests, an abuse that was put to rest by the former Prince Lafthi. But even during these agreements and alliances, orcs still disrespected elven culture and violated Princedom laws and customs when visiting. Peace and friendship were never really there. Fighting our strongest enemy proves our capabilities to the world of Asulon. It shows that Malinor is strong and united. And by showing we fight to protect our loved ones, rather than to conquer shows our compassion and wisdom. Normandor is not a permanent residence. We must be patient as we begin to move settlements ((OOC note, this is NOT in reference to 3.0)). It is a process that I initiated as High Princess, but a task as large as that takes time. For now we have pressing matters. Matters of unity that will spread our prosperity across all if we stay together. And yes.. the application process dates back to even before I was ascended to a Princess in Aegis. This process was placed by High Prince Native and continued until my reign in which I suspended it. I didn't see it as a useful tool during that time, but High Prince Bravepaw decided to use it, as is his choice.