"Well, okay!" Elistin frowned and thought about it, and suddenly his eyes lit up, looking at Qin Lun with a tinge of joy, "Perhaps in your capacity, you can influence the thoughts of the tribal elders!"
In my capacity? What's the meaning? Qin Lun raised his eyebrows slightly, but he didn't intervene, and waited quietly for Elisten to continue.
A lot of things seemed to have been held in Elisteen's mind for a long time, and Qin Lun might have just reached a certain overflow point, and the elf druid vented out all at once.
Listening to Elistine's narration, Qin Lun began to understand the current situation of the Jondal elves and the current predicament faced by the Magic Cup Court. Since Broken Starry Sky doesn't have a high degree of exploration of this world, the background introduction it can give is also very general.
In fact, the Jondal elves at this time are already different from the Jondal elves before the valley history, and their racial composition is not the same.
During the period of the great elf civilization, the Jondal elves belonged to a branch of the Keldomo elves, and their inheritance can be traced back to the kingdom of the Seopia elves. Originally, the three elven kingdoms of Seopia, Sentar, and Eilul, which were located in the southeast of the Great Forest of Keldom, had a chance to unify, but they were destroyed by the dark elves of Irisri, and the three major kingdoms took place. The "Three Leaf War" between the elf courts.
Later, during the Second Dragon War, the Great Forest of Keldormer split into the Dragon Forest, Darter Forest, and Tethyr Forest. The Dragon Forest and Darter Forest belong to the northwest of the original Keldom Forest, and there are two elf kingdoms, Ilfaran and Aulishar. Among them, the Aulishar elves gradually disappeared in the war, and the elves have long been lost. court.
The Great Forest of Tethyr, where the kingdoms of Seopia and Thyntar are located, was split into Anker, Thorn, Winter Forest and Jondal Forest during the war between the Air Djinn and the Flame Djinn in the Skyfire Era. Among them, the Winter Forest belongs to the inheritance of the Sental elves, while the Anker and Jondal forests are the inheritance of the Seopia elves.
The actions of the Seopia elves will be divided into two parts, each living in the Anker and Jondal forests. The specific reasons for this have not been verified, but it may be related to the royal succession at that time.
Although the Seopia elves are divided into two major parts, as one of the two most complete elf courts (the other is the Ilfaran elf court currently living in Mir Forest), their strength has no essential difference. damaged.
Compared with the sun elves who suffered heavy losses in the highest forest, lost their ancient inheritance, and migrated to the Comanthor forest in the northeast of the mainland, the moon elves and green elves in Seopia did have reasons to claim their legitimacy.
Whether it is the Seopia elves who settled in the Anker forest or the Jondal forest, the main tribes are composed of moon elves and green elves. The moon elves occupy the main dominant position, while the green elves are relatively weaker. The seats of the two in the Elf Elder Council are roughly three to one, and the elves are kings of the moon elves.
This tradition has continued to this day in the Anker Forest, but not in the Jondal Forest. In 255 BC, the Jondal elves encountered an unprecedented challenge.
At that time, the human kingdom Jondas in the north of the Jondal Forest was rising day by day, and gradually expanded its power to the south, cutting down trees in the Jondal Forest and establishing human settlements.
After several fruitless negotiations between the Jondal elves, the war between the two clans finally broke out. At the beginning of the war, due to their weak military strength, the Jondal elves could only defend the forest, unable to threaten the human cities in the northern plains.
In this case, in order to avoid the final destruction of Jondal Forest, the Elven Court activated a devastating ancient forbidden spell. At the cost of the death of the Elf King and most of the Elf Elders, most of the land of the Jondas Kingdom was turned into a vast ocean. This is the Weihong Sea Area connected to the Sea of Fallen Stars today.
This war caused the Jondals human kingdom to fall from the pinnacle power of the mainland to a third-rate country, and the Jondal elves were also hit hard. Especially among the moon elves, there was no elf who could take on the heavy responsibility of the elf king, and finally had to let a green elf become the successor elf king.
The king of the green elves is called Noyen Greenleaf, and he is the grandfather of the current king of elves, King Testyr.
Although Noyen Greenleaf got the rightful position and did not obtain the throne through conspiracy and tricks, the green elves whose status has been greatly improved are unwilling to be subordinate to the moon elves whose power has been greatly reduced. Suppress.
The two elf kings after Noyen Greenleaf also continued the policy of suppressing the moon elves, and the situation was not alleviated until King Testir came to the throne. However, after three generations of elf kings' suppression, the moon elves in Jondal Forest could no longer bear it. Most of the moon elves moved out of the elf court and established a semi-independent moon elf tribe outside the forest.
In these months, the Elf tribe has established its own joint meeting of tribal elders, which is actually equivalent to independence. If this were in human society, then such independence would not be tolerated by any ruler.
However, this is an elf society, and elves are still a race that advocates a peaceful and free life. For the green elves, the bottom line is to exclude the moon elves from the elf court, and it is impossible to mutilate their compatriots for this. Although the moon elves were unhappy about being excluded from the elf court by the green elves, they also never thought about using violent means to regain their dominance.
After three generations of elves recuperating, the existing moon elves in Jondal Forest have recovered their vitality, and a large number of high-level elf rangers and druids have been born, among which Elistine is an outstanding leader among the younger generation.
The blood of the original moon elf royal family flows through Elistine, in other words, she belongs to the original line of the moon elf royal family. Because elves live longer, and some elves are born from the fruit of the world tree, they don't pay much attention to blood relationship. The way they recognize the blood of the royal family is very simple, which is to compare the purity of blood.
Hearing this, Qin Lun finally realized suddenly. Why did Elistine treat Qin Lun kindly after testing his blood? Why did King Testir go out of his way to win over him, an elf mercenary from a small forest tribe
Because the blood of the high moon elves is an extremely pure blood of the moon elves, they regarded Qin Lun as a descendant of the royal family of the moon elves.
King Testir's previous invitation might just be a stepping stone. Since King Testir intends to unite with the moon elves again and incorporate them into the ruling system of the Jondal elves, it is absolutely impossible to pay only one place for the royal guard.
If Qin Lun had agreed to it at the time, under the current situation where the Elven Court was in trouble, King Testier would most likely arrange for him a low-risk but extremely important plot mission.
In other words, it is to gild him, so that he can continue to raise Qin Lun's status later, and through his "royal bloodline", slowly win over the hearts of the Moon Elf clan and change the semi-independent status of the Moon Elf tribe.
After realizing this, Qin Lun felt slightly regretful. If there is no such thing as the fortress team, perhaps he might get the most "safe" plot mission since he entered the Broken Starry Sky. Even if the mission reward is not high, he can still get great gains from the Elven King.
The current king of Testir may be the most pious king after Jondal Forest split from Tethyr Forest. Since his ascension to the throne more than thirty years ago, he has been trying to bridge the rift between the moon elves and the green elves.
If one or two hundred years were given to him, the Jondal elves would definitely be able to regain their glory, but in fact, he didn't have so much time. Excluding the increasingly powerful human forces on the mainland, the Jondal Forest is currently in a huge internal crisis.
As the cornerstone of the Magic Cup Court and the source of inheritance of the Jondal elves, their world tree is about to die. In fact, except for the extinct grandfather's tree, the first-generation world tree where the sun elves originally lived in the highest forest, the second-generation world trees scattered in the forests of various continents are dying one after another.
In order to cope with this crisis, the Sun Elves of Comanthor are undergoing a great migration. They will transfer most of their people to Yongju Island, where the third generation of World Tree has been successfully planted.
In fact, this is also a helpless move. The world tree has strong vitality, but the survival rate of the young species is very low, which requires the inheritance of the ancient secret method of the elves. Although the Comanthori elves rank first in the mainland in terms of forest area and population, they lost their ancient inheritance in the five crown wars, and now they can only rely on the special environment of Yongju Island to cultivate the third generation of World Tree.
Correspondingly, the descendants of the Anker Forest Seopia elves whose ancient inheritance is relatively intact, the Ilfaran elf descendants of the Mir Forest, and the joint descendants of Maierita and Santa Osriel in the eastern part of the Highest Forest are also The third generation of World Tree was born one after another.
The Thorn Forest, which also lacks the secret inheritance of the World Tree, and the descendants of the Thorntal elves in the Winter Forest did not survive the third-generation World Tree, and each is trying to survive this inheritance crisis.
As for the descendants of the Serpia elves in the Jondal Forest, they are self-inflicted. When the three generations of green elf kings pushed out the moon elves, they did not consider the unique status of the Jondal moon elves in the inheritance of the secret method of the World Tree. As a result, the second generation of the World Tree All the young species left behind failed to survive.
In fact, the elven caravan that Qin Lun was in was the elven envoy sent by King Testir for help. Their destination is Mir Forest, where they seek help from the descendants of the Ilfaran elves in order to regain the world tree seed.
"Why don't you ask for help from the closer Anke Forest?" Qin Lun couldn't help asking strangely when he heard this.
Both the Ankh elves and Jondal elves belong to the descendants of the Seopia elves, which are much closer than the descendants of the Ilfaran elves in the Mir Forest. Although the two split in the second dragon war and the war between the flame djinn and the air djinn, that was more than seven thousand years ago.
"Because the Ank Elf Court is recruiting the Jondal Moon Elf family, the condition for them to help King Testir is that the Magic Cup Court cannot prevent the Jondal Moon Elf from joining the Ank Forest in any way!" Elistin wryly smiled Said.
I see! Although there are still some inside information that is not clear, to Qin Lun, it is not important anymore. Based on the secrets mentioned by Elistine, he has basically been able to deduce several major plot lines of the Devil's Cup Court.
At the same time, a reminder sounded in the death list at the right time, and he triggered a certain mission plot!