"Everyone, if there is no problem with the judgment that the leader of the caravan is an elf, then look at the mission background introduction given by Broken Starry Sky. Don't you find it a bit strange?" Qin Lun added with a smile. The apostle re-examined the mission background and fell into deep thought.
Compared with other plot races, the apostles of Devil's Horn are very familiar with elves, and the five major management races of this apostle city must have the moon night elves.
Although elves have many races, most elves love nature and advocate a self-sufficient jungle life. They are not used to opening their cities and daily life to other races, and they are somewhat closed off compared to humans.
The trade between elves and humans is usually initiated by humans. Human caravans enter the forest and bring tea, porcelain, silk, spices and other daily necessities and luxury goods in exchange for elf handicrafts and precious medicinal materials.
This kind of transaction is often of great benefit, but it is not easy to achieve. The elves have always been very wary of human greed and cunning, not to mention that most elves are indifferent and do not pursue fame and fortune like humans. The forest allows them to be self-sufficient, and the items provided by humans are not considered necessities.
Based on this, it is hard to imagine that elves in a certain forest would form a caravan and take the initiative to leave the forest to seek trade with humans. In particular, the elves of this forest are still sworn enemies with the human kingdom outside the forest.
Usually, when giving a guide mission or a main mission, Shattered Starry Sky will give some brief introductions to the relevant mission background. Some aspects of it will not be so detailed, and the apostles need to inquire according to their own needs.
Of course, according to the degree of exploration of the mission world by Broken Starry Sky, these materials will also be quite incomplete. The lower the original exploration degree, the more general the information, and vice versa, the more detailed it will be.
The current degree of exploration in the world of Toril is still very low. Therefore, Starry Sky's introduction to the mission plot is also very general, basically only giving a rough world background. However, for the current main storyline, some historical data of the Jondal Forest area are still given.
The Jondal Forest area is located in the south of the continent of Faerun. The north is the human kingdom Jondas and the Vihon sea area. The west is the Mesopotamia. The Filstep Mountains of Dragon Legend, and to the east are the Meswatches and Viper Peak.
The Jondal elves belong to the Keldomir elves. 23100-17100 B.C., the valley was in the first prosperous period of the great elf civilization. A joint team of moon elves, green elves, and dark elves who have survived the curse of the daybreak, in order to stay away from the elves' national war provoked by the golden elves, fought in the Great Forest of Keldormor (including the entire Tethyr, Amn, and Calimshan). , Jondal region) established a large settlement.
These settlements later formed the three main elven kingdoms, with bases in Ankh and Theopia in Jondal, Thontar in the Thornwood, and Eilur in the Winterwood. These forest settlements are so large that they almost cover one-fifth of the entire continent of Faerûn.
The current Thorn Forest, Anker, Winter Forest and Jondal Forest were all part of the Great Forest of Keldormor at that time. Later, due to many wars, especially the two dragon wars, and the elves' five crown wars, the Keldom Forest was destroyed by fire, splitting the Jackie Chan Forest, Darter Forest and Tethyr Forest.
The Dattle Forest was later divided into many forests such as Virdas, Silminster and Mir, and the Tethyr Forest was divided into Anker, Thorn, Winter Forest and Jondal Forest.
In fact, the name Tethyr is derived from the Lord of Keldomir, the Elven King who was the first recorded elven dragonslayer and ranger-lord. He used the dragon-slaying arrow to kill two ancient red dragons on the mountain, saving the lives of many compatriots.
After the Great Forest of Keldormor split, its largest forest was named Tethyr Forest after him. The valor of the Elven-King won the Elf the respect of the Dragon, who had looked down on the Elves before, and regarded them only as food and ignorant two-legged beasts.
In 17,500 B.C., the independent three forest elf kingdoms of Sental, Eilul and Seopia began to discuss the establishment of a unified kingdom in order to fight against the golden elf country "Arivanda" in the north, which called themselves the sun elves. , and the dark elf country "Irisri" that believes in the goddess Rose.
Unfortunately, their unification plan this time was destroyed by "Irisri". The dark elves sent spies and assassins to kill the leaders of the three kingdoms who supported the unification, and supported the rival heirs, pushing the three elf kingdoms into a multilateral melee , the conspiracy was not discovered by accident until centuries later.
From 17,100 BC to 16,800 BC, this melee, which lasted for three centuries, is called the Sanye War. For the first time, the peaceful Green Elves and Moon Elves are finally drawn into an elven civil war like their kin, the Gold and Dark Elves.
Compared with other war periods in the elf age, the Three Leaf War lasted for three centuries, but it was still more like a play. After all, the green elves and the moon elves are peaceful and peace-loving. The war between them did not bring much damage, especially after they penetrated the conspiracy of the dark elves "Irisri", the war ended .
However, the reason why the Three Leaf War will be remembered by all the elves is because with the end of this war, the first prosperous period of the Great Elf civilization also ended.
Then, with the establishment of the Waxingen Tower Empire by the Waxingen tribe of the "Airifanda" golden elves, and the successive rise of the "Irisri" dark elves, the elves began their second period of prosperity.
If the theme of the first prosperous period of the elves was survival and reproduction, then during the second prosperous period, the elves civilization attracted a real big development, and the theme was art and magic.
Because it is located in the geographical center of the elf kingdoms in the north and south, the "Maiye Lita" elf kingdom has gradually become the center of art and advanced magic for all Faerun elves by virtue of its geographical advantages and trade exchanges.
At the same time, this also made the "Arivanda" gold elves, who claim to be the leaders of the elves, very unhappy. They established the first elf empire - the Vasingen Tower Empire, and called their forest the Supreme Forest. The future war with Maiye Lita laid the groundwork.
With the escalation of the conflict of beliefs and conventional trade between "Arivanda" and "Mayerita", the second prosperous period of the Great Elf civilization finally ended in the spring of 12,000 BC, and the two countries broke out. Great magic war.
However, at that time, none of the elves could have expected that this war was just the beginning of a series of wars, and finally let the elves step down from the throne of ruling the mainland.
These wars include the "Mayerita" war of aggression launched by the golden elves of "Aryvantar"; the battle between giants and dragons in Keldomer (the first dragon war); The aggression of Fanta, the "fire attack war" against Seopia, the "war of mourning" when the Kerdomo coalition counterattacked Ilythri, the annexation war between Ilythri and Eilur, and so on.
These large and small wars are classified into five crown wars in chronological order. The two most influential events in the crown war are the dark disaster and the fall of the dark elves.
The Dark Plague utterly destroyed the elven kingdom of Maierita, leaving only the scorched land now known as the High Wilderness.
Perhaps because of the barbarism of the Crown Wars, or perhaps because of the belief in the goddess Lolth, the dark elves became depraved in this era. After many wars and cruel deeds, they were forced to migrate to the underground of this planet, Become an underground elf, the drow.
The five crown wars lasted for four generations of elves, equivalent to more than three thousand years. From 12,000 BC to 9,000 BC. Numerous wars have burned vast forests. The large forest covering the western part of the continent of Faerun was split into several small forests. Compared with the previous forests, these small forests are almost less than one-seventh of the original area.
In the last, and Fifth Crown War, the long all-out war finally came to an end with the utter defeat of the Vasinnta Imperial Army and the division of Aryvandar. Much of the High Forest was abandoned, leaving the forest free so that it could be brought back to life.
Then the elven colonization movement known as the Year of Miracles began, and the golden elves who were tired of the war in Arivanda began to move to the Great Forest of Comanthor in the east of the mainland. It's just that due to the destruction of the upper echelons of the Waxingenta Empire, the inheritance of the golden elves has been greatly damaged.
Although the surviving golden elves later immigrated to Yongju Island and transplanted the seeds of the original world tree to the center of Yongju Island, claiming that they are still the royal family of all elves, but in fact the completely preserved mainland elf civilization is Only Ilfranc and Keldomo remained.
The elves currently living in the eastern part of the Supreme Forest are the survivors of Santa Osriel, Maierita, Olichar, and Eilul, and basically have nothing to do with the Vasinnta Empire of the golden elves. It doesn't matter.
From then on, the golden elves, who originally belonged to the upper class nobles of the elves, could no longer exclusively enjoy the kingship of the elves in righteousness. The Keldomir and Ilfaran moon elves and green elves with complete inheritance are more qualified to claim their orthodoxy.
However, between 9000 BC and 8500 BC, a group of red dragons attacked the heart of the great forest of Keldormor, and their flames caused an unstoppable forest fire. The fire wiped out the entire population of 4 elven races, destroyed 11 giant settlements, killed at least 4 green dragons, and destroyed thousands of miles of forest.
This disaster is known as the Second Dragon War, to distinguish it from the battle of giants and dragons during the War of Crown. Due to the fire's division and other damage, Keldomore split into three forests: Dragon's Forest, Darter's Forest, and Tethyr Forest (named after the Elven King of Keldomir).
And in 6200 BC, the Tethyr elves ushered in the era of skyfire. The country "Kadom" founded by the Air Djinn and the country "Mainong" founded by the Fire Djinn began to fight in the Calimshan and Tethyr regions. The successive wars lasted for a hundred years, and the fire once again split the Tethyr Forest into four existing forests: Anker, Thorn, Winter Forest and Jondal.
Since this war was not an elf civil war, although the Keldomir elves suffered huge casualties, it did not affect the inheritance. With the help of other seeds of the World Tree, one of the Keldormo elves established the Magic Cup Elf Royal Court in the Jondal Forest, which is also the predecessor of the Jondal Elf.
The disaster of the elves is good news for another continental race. The burned forest turned into a plain and brought fertile soil. Humans began to rise and gradually replaced the elves as the new rulers of Faerun.
The remaining gas djinn and fire djinn were driven away by the coalition of humans and dwarves. Some humans rebuilt Calimport and Keerta in Calimshan, the original country of gas djinn, and formed the human kingdom of "Corranson" ( Later called the Kingdom of Callinson). The dwarves formed the Santana Alliance in Tethyr, the original country of the fire elves, and later split into many dwarf kingdoms.
And another part of humans established a kingdom named Zamdas in the north of the Jondal Forest, which is the predecessor of the current "Kingdom of Jondas", and fought with the Coranson Kingdom for control of the Steam Lake area. centuries.
Around 255 BC, out of dissatisfaction with the "Zamdas" logging industry, the war between the Jondal elves and Zamdas broke out. The human army that invaded the Jondal Forest was washed away by the huge waves created by the high-level magic of the elves, and the land of Zamdas in the north of the forest was washed away into the inner sea of the mainland—a part of the Sea of Falling Stars, forming today's Weihong Sea Area.
Since then, the Kingdom of Zamdas and the Jondal elves have become sworn enemies.
Although the successor of Zamdas, the "Jondas Kingdom", has weakened into a small country, and the Jondal elves are no longer what they used to be, and have reached a superficial harmony, but in fact, the relationship between the two is not the same at all. There was no relief.
This is why Qin Lun pointed out that the leader of the caravan is an elf! Given the deadly enemy relationship between the Jondas Kingdom and the Jondal elves, how could the elves come out of the forest on their own initiative to trade with the Jondals