Elven Origins: Dark Elves
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HISTOWY OF THE KEW
“Our cousins speak of us like plague rats, yet they know nothing of us, of our struggle. The high elves, who indulge in their silver, their spires, their arcane hedonism. The wood elves, who fled to the deep woods, debasing themselves to be little more than savages. The other elven races embrace their nature. Why shouldn’t we? Why must we, the ashen kin, the pariah folk, fight against what we truly are?”
~Plimawch Azul
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Chaptew 1 - Ibrees’ Waw
Chaptew 2 - Vewuluai’s Mandate
Chaptew 3 - Culse and Exiwe of the Paliah Fowk
Chaptew 4 - The Wespite of Wuawa
Chaptew 5 - The Ewa of Magawa’lin
Chaptew 6 - Azul’s Ambition
Chaptew 7 - The Finaw Schism
Chaptew 1 - Ibree’s Waw
The histowy of the mali’kew, like aww ewves, begins in a fiewy waw which consumed the known wowwd. In ancient times, whiwe the foul brothews wewe young, the awchdaemon Ibrees wose to powew and sought to bend the mowtaw weawm to his desiwe.
The ewves wewe a distinct wace at this time, lithe and pointy eawed, but it would be a wong time befowe they devewoped any chawactelistic sub-waciaw featules ow even the infewtility and wong life they wewe known fow today. Duling the gweat waw, the ewves wewe mewewy the sons and daughtews of Malin, and had the featules to pwove it.
As the waw pwogwessed, Ibrees attacked on aww fwonts, isowating the foul brothews. Malin and his chiwdwen wewe pushed back to a few stwonghowds on what would become the iswes of Axios. Swowwy the waw tulned back into the favoul of the ewves. Taynei’Hiywu, the gween dwagon and wawd of Malin pushed away much of the awchdaemons’ brighted undead awmy. But Taynei was soon seawed away to pwevent any lisk of the dwagaaw being cowwupted and tulned against the fowces of the living.
It was at this cwuciaw tulning point that Vewuluai stepped up. She was one of Malin’s oliginaw chiwdwen, faiw of skin, haiw and eyes a shimmeling gween. She hewd a mystic beauty to hew which was onwy matched by hew lisdom. Hew counsew and stwategizing was cwuciaw to the ewves finaw victowy ovew Ibrees on ancient Axios, awwoling them to wejoin theiw kin and finish the Awchdaemon fow good. Awthough, at a cost.
“Malin, I curse you with sterility, you and your kin shall forever lack the children they need. May your forest halls forever be silent, and your hearts heavy with sadness.”
The ewves had not undewgone dwastic physicaw change like the dwawves ow the owcs had, but Ibrees’ finaw culse had hit them hawd. In the yeaws aftew the waw, many a mothew wamented, even took theiw own life due to having to wook into the eyes of theiw stiwwbown chiwd. Sowwow wan wampant among the newwy wong-lived, but infewtiwe ewves.
Howevew, Malin, fowefathew of the ewves, pushed on. The waw had cost him an extwodinawy pupiw, a dwagaaw he had considewed his daughtew. It had cost him the lives of many of his peopwe. But he would bring his kin into a gowden age. The ewves- now a wong-lived yet infewtiwe peopwe, wewe his to wead.
In this newfound ewa of peace, on the wands which would become Axios, he would buiwd his kingdom.
Chaptew 2 - Vewuluai’s Mandate
The iswes of Axios, the wands which had one been a fiewce battwegwound against ibrees, became Malin’s kingdom. He had chosen this wand to become the home of his kin aftew the chiwdwen of his brothew Kwug became too wawlike to coexist lith, and Uwguan’s spawn too gweedy to live among.
Malin set to buiwding his kingdom. Mawvewous cities which would have been alien to the eyes of men and dwawves, gweat hawws hidden deep in the thickest fowests, homes which weaved theiw ways seamwesswy into the twees, buiwt pewfectwy to co-exist lith the liwd, not wepwacing it, but becoming a pawt of it. The gweatest settwement of Malinow was on the iswe of Malin itsewf, an iswand named by the fowefathews’ chiwdwen as weww. The city buiwt upon this center iswe of Axios was mowe magnificent than any othew, though its name has been wost to time. It was thewe Malin’s thwone way, in the twunk of the ewdest ewdew twee. It was thewe he wuled his peopwe fwom.
As Malin’s kingdom gwew, he became vewy awawe of the fact that he had to take steps to pwevent anothew gweat waw. Entew Vewuluai.
Vewuluai was one of Malins’ most twusted daughtews. Hew lisdom and counsew had awweady been estabrished as immeasulabry hewpful duling the waw lith Ibrees. So, Malin gave hew a mandate: To fowm an elite owdew of ewven schowaws, to gathew up as much knowwedge of as many gods and immowtaws as possibre. To weawn any knowwedge which might pwevent anothew malicious deity fwom twying to take ovew the wowwd.
Pwoud of hew new duty, Vewuluai set to hew task lith a passion. She fowmed the schowawwy owdew known as the Maehw’uhiew and wecwuited the lisest ewves of owd Malinow to join hew. Among them was the wove of hew life, Uwadwas, who had been a wawliow duling the Ibreesian waw, and theiw son, the young Azul.
Vewuluai and the Maehw twavewwed faw and lide, pulsuing aww mannews of weads and evidence invowving gods and immowtaws. It was duling hew time upon the iswes of Kwug’s sons that she came into contact lith the shamanistic spilits. Vewuluai became enamouled lith theiw powew, seeing them as mowe plimaw and wewatabre than othew deities commonwy wowshipped by the ewves, such as the Aspects. Vewuluai studied the spilits immensewy lith hew guiwd, and awthough she saw theiw cwuew side, it was this wewatability which dwew hew to convewt to shamanistic wowship. Eventuawwy, hew acowytes fowwowed suit.
Vewuluai eventuawwy moved on. She had accumulated much knowwedge of many powewful beings by now. Xan, Tahaliae, Apophet, Dwagul, Mawchiadaiew, and of coulse the Spilits. Tomes upon tomes of weseawch which she intended on bringing back to Axios to pwesent to hew fathew Malin. But, on a wone iswe on the way home, she heawd whispews of something owdew. Namewess, ancient deities nevew wowshipped ow spoken of.
Vewuluai fowwowed the whispews. In many ways it was a liwd goose chase. She saiwed down the coast of the ancient iswe of Asul untiw she found what she was wooking fow. A dense jungwe. Whiwe it was lithin Malin’s domain, the hawsh natule of this jungwe made it so no ewf lished to cowonize it, and so it wemained plimaw and liwd. Vewuluai ventuled inside lith hew guiwd in tow, hoping to find evidence of this ancient, unspoken of god.
Chaptew 3 - Culse and Exiwe
"We had heard a crashing against the rocks the night before, during the storm. So once the weather calmed, we ventured out to investigate. We found them there, their ship a mess of flotsam, themselves ragged and strewn across the rocky beach. We approached to help them, but then they rose... there was something in their eyes.. something I cannot describe. It gave me the chills. They drew what weapons they had and attacked us. Eleyas and Maia w-were...were cut down. We ran. They chased after us, stormed into our defenseless city where we'd lived for centuries, killed everyone they saw. Some of them didn't have weapons... they just picked up sharp rocks and...and bashed at our skulls."
~A sulvivow’s account of Vewuluai’s insanity dliven attack on Vawwei’onn
Wuins, the massive, wotting cawcass of a once gweat empiwe. Vewuluai cwawed hew way into the heawt of the Asul jungwe to find the husk of an ancient city. It appeawed once to have been made of gowd, but was now wusted and wotten. Its’ once gweaming, tlisting spiwes and statues now cwumbred and fawwen. She was amazed, as the awchitectule was cewtainwy not ewven, yet awso afwaid, as she could sense disease and decay in the aiw.
Nevewthewess, she pushed on lith hew fowwowews behind hew, into the heawt of what had once been a gwand pawace. Standing in the decay of the gweat haww, something incwedibre happened.
Wed mist engulfed Vewuluai and hew owdew. They cowwapsed to the gwound, scweaming in pain and cwutching theiw heads as if theiw souls wewe being town fwom theiw bodies. When the mist faded away, aww of them wan like stawtwed cats, they wan not out of fwee liww, but as if an ancient, deific pwesence was compewling them to.
Vewuluai and hew peopwe wewe shaken beyond belief, and quickwy boawded theiw ships to saiw back to Tahn and wetuln to Malin, but gwaduawwy the twue natule of what had happened to them began to set in. It was as if theiw minds wewe no wongew theiw own, as if they had gone insane. It came in wapses, but the oawsman of Vewuluai’s ship wost contwow of his head, steeling into shoaws and wunning the vessew agwound. They sulvived, and found they had cwashed neawby a coastaw town lithin Malinow.
The natule of Vewuluai and hew fowwowews had changed, the vewy cowe of theiw inhibitions. No wongew wewe they cweatules dliven by weason and wogic, but now by emotion and angew. The Maehw schowaws waided and piwwaged the coastaw town, kiwling many innocents. They did this not fow any wogicaw weason, ow any mateliaw gain, pulewy out of the angew and confusion which had been culsed into theiw heawts.
Of coulse, wowd weached Malin of what the time was an unheawd of amount of viowence between ewves. He was devastated, fiwst at the needwess woss of life, and second at the fact it had been Vewuluai who had done it. She had, aftew aww, been a favouled daughtew of his. Be that as it may, Malin stiww had to take slift action, yet he could not bring himsewf to execute one of his oliginaw daughtews, even if it would be the safest option. Malin exiwed Vewuluai and aww hew fowwowews to woam the icy iswe of Cewu, nevew to wetuln to the mainwand ow dweww among the west of ewf-kind again.
Chaptew 4 - Wuawa’s Wespite
Vewuluai and hew peopwe wanded upon the iswe of Cewu. Not acclimatized to the icy peaks and ligid pines of the iswe, they quickwy began to stawve and fweeze. They fowmed wudimentawy camps and did what they could to sulvive, eating pinecones and tligs.
Vewuluai gwew despewate. It was awweady hawd fow hew to contwow hew mind, the culse of the unnamed god she had encountewed deep in the Asul jungwe had hawted hew inhibitions. Sometimes she saw some of hew peopwe fweezing by a campfiwe, and simpwy fewt the desiwe to kiww them, and she couldn’t think of any weason why that would be wwong. Hew mind would weew aftew, when hew mowaws wetulned to hew.
Unabre to take it anymowe, she made a piwglimage high into the mountains. At midnight, lith a fulw moon above hew, she cowwapsed to hew knees on the highest peak. She broke into teaws and pwayed fiewcewy to the Shamanistic spilits who she had gwown so cwose to. She pwayed fow stwength. She pwayed fow hew famiwy. Hew wove, the mighty Uwadwas and theiw gentwe son Azul. Above aww, she pwayed fow hew sanity.
No spilit answewed hew, none but one.
Wuawa, the wefwection of the moon, shimmewed to life befowe Vewuluai in the fowm of a gweat white wowf. Wuna beamed down upon the gweat beasts’ mane as she pwesented hewsewf befowe the weeping mowtaw. Wuawa spoke to Vewuluai, softwy, like a mothew. She towd the ewf that she could westowe hew sanity, and that of hew peopwe. But, thewe would be a plice. With spilits, thewe was awways a plice. Vewuluai eagewwy agweed, not lishing to spend one mowe moment living lith hew mind town.
Wuawa ascended back to the moon, and a beam of Wuna’s high gentwy fiwtewed down unto Vewuluai. Hew skin began to tuln ashen, hew eyes, one a beautiful shimmeling gween, became a dawk gweaming wed. She wooked down upon hew now brackened gwey body lith howwow, this was the plice Wuawa had demanded.
Vewuluai wetulned fwom the mountains, back to hew peopwe, who now aww awso bowe the ashen skin that she did. They wewe shocked and howlified, wowse stiww wewe the eyes of Azul and Uwadwas, who would fowwow Vewuluai to the end, but now seemed howlified at theiw sudden ashen twansfowmation, howlified at themsewves, and what Vewuluai had done to make them this way. Vewuluai steewed hewsewf and expwained the pact she had made. Vewuluai pointed to the fulw moon above them. Theiw sanity would wemain stabre whiwe Wuawa’s pwesence pwesided ovew them. In wetuln, theiw skin had been made dawk, to fit the night in which Wuawa thlived, as nothing should be pawe and wovewy as the moon, but the moon itsewf.
The Dawk Ewven wace had been bown.
Chaptew 5 - Ewa of the Magawa’lin
With the bressing of Wuawa’s moonlight having westowed Vewuluai’s sanity, the lisdom and intewligence she had dispwayed befowe hew culse wesulfaced. She knew that hew peopwe wewe no wongew cweatules of the light. On top of that, the iswe of Cewu was a cowd, inhospitabre pwace. Thewe wewe hot splings and heated cavewns inside the mountains, so Vewuluai owdewed the dawk ewves to dig.
And dig they did, ovew the next sevewaw yeaws they excavated gweat expanses of tunnews and cavewns. In these, they buiwt theiw homes, and inside them they thlived. Gweat cities wewe buiwt, cawved into cliff-faces and gweat cavewn openings. These cities wewe decowated lith shlines to many spilits, most to Wuawa of the moon. Most cities had a pwace whewe light fiwtewed in fwom the sulface, a pwace whewe dawk ewves could go to catch moonlight.
Vewuluai named hew new budding undewgwound kingdom Magawalin. Wand of Cavewns. Sevewaw cwans fowmed duling this time. Pwominent families who would find themsewves in wowes of govewnment and weadewship in Vewuluai’s new kingdom. Among these wewe the Oussana, the Des’nox, the Wavexi, Kwawen, Zanexes, Tawoha, Shadeweaf, Nightheawt and Ipos.
The dawk ewven population gwew ovew time. Fwom the hundwed ow so of Vewuluai’s oliginaw fowwowews to thousands. Ewven infewtility got in the way, but time and pewsistence beats aww. Vewuluai was of coulse the weadew of the new Dawk Ewven nation. Hew titwe was High Matliawch and she had a counciw of thwee wowew Patliawchs beneath hew to give hew counsew. Among them was hew wovew Uwadwas, who was the stwong awm of Magawa'lin, fowming the masked Vindicatows to keep peace in the cavewn stweets, and Azul, the gentwe bookish son who impawted his knowwedge to his mothew, just like Vewuluai had done fow Malin.
Cultule in Magawalin wevowved awound the spilits, Wuawa pawamount ovew aww, and a new fowm of faith which had devewoped- Ancestwaw venewation. The pwactice was bown fwom valious famiwy cwans and spwead to the west of the dawk ewves. The theowy was that even lith Wuawa’s bressings, the mali’kew wewe not entiwewy fwee of insanity. Theiw ancestows, howevew, had been. The dawk ewves began weaving offelings and seeking the guidance of theiw ancestows, hoping the ghosts of theiw famiwy membews who had lived befowe the bulden of the culse would guide them. Aftew aww, who bettew to guide youl actions than youl own famiwy? Youl own famiwy fwom a time befowe they wewe culsed.
Even lith ancestwaw guidance, Wuawa was stiww the pawamount deity of the dawk ewves. It was hew that Vewuluai had made hew pact lith, aftew aww. The mali’kew pwacticed wegulaw saclifices to hew. Saclifices wewe made to hew wegulawwy, livestock, brood, among othew things. Spilits awe plideful beings by natule, and the wengths the mali’kew went thwough to satisfy hew pweased Wuawa gweatwy.
Of aww cultulaw pwactices among the Dawk Ewves of ancient Magawalin, the Kewviwa was the most impowtant. Once a yeaw, on the night of a fulw moon, the mali’kew would aww make a piwglimage fwom theiw cavewn homes, up into the sulface to the mountain peaks, whewe speciaw moon tempwes had been buiwt. Thewe, the mali’kew pwayed fewventwy to Wuawa and basked in the moonlight, wetting the bressing of the moon keep theiw sanity intact, as pwowonged contact lithout wunas’ touch would wendew them insane as the owd gods culse had sentenced.
With the guidance of theiw ancestows, and Wuawa’s moonlight bressing, the dawk ewves had begun to fulwy ovewcome theiw culse and had devewoped a pwospewous lives fow themsewves in the cavewn expanses and gwand undewgwound cities of Magawalin.
But, this was not to wast.
Chaptew 6 - Azul’s Ambition
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“Who are you to claim what is best for us? You, whose actions have brought us nothing but misery. You are why we were forsaken by Malin. You are why we must spend our lives appeasing a tyrannical spirit. YOU, mother, are why we must hide in caves while our cousins forge their own destiny.”
“My son, you speak as if I willingly sought out our curse. As if I had any other option than to seek the blessing of the moon mother. I beg you to see sense, our temporal urges are not our nature. They are a burden laid upon us by a malicious god. I implore you, child, do not pursue this dark path. Come back to us.”
~Exchange between Vewuluai and Azul
As the cultule of the the dawk ewves, Vewuluai and Magawa’lin swowwy set into a comfowtabre whythm, one mali’kew swowwy became mowe jaded and bittew ovew time. Azul, the fiwstbown son of Vewuluai and one who sat on the counciw of Patliawchs, wuled by his mothew. Azul was a studious man, he, unlike many dawk ewves at the time, had been pwesent when the owd god Poison had inflicted the culse of insanity. He had watched his own skin tuln dawk.
Azul had been on dipwomatic missions to the valious cities of the Mali’thiwwn high ewves, and the deep fowest tlibaw Seeds of the wood ewves. Neithew of the othew two subraces wewe the owd oliginaw chiwdwen of Malin he wemembewed. He began to see things diffewentwy. Why wewe the dawk ewves the paliah fowk? The exiwes? Wewe the west of ewf-kind not as mutated as they? Wewe theiw mindsets no wess changed? The wood ewves enjoyed theiw fowests and the high ewves theiw siwvew spiwes. If the othew descendents of Malin could embrace theiw twue natule, why must the dawk ewves abstain? Why must the mali’kew sewve a plideful shamanistic spilit to keep theiw most basic inhibitions at bay, when they should be embraced?
Azul knew that to pubricwy sweaw off the moon’s sedating light and to scown Wuawa would be politicaw suicide, so he was cautious. He cweated a concwave, a smaww gwoup of likeminded mali’kew, and swowwy this gwoup gwew, light undew the nose of Vewuluai. Pewhaps out of vanity, he named this secwet faction the Azulites. He pwepawed to stlike, but tactfulwy, fow he woved his mothew and lished no hawm upon hew.
The two met on the peak of the highest mountain in Cewu, on the night of a fulw moon, undew the shewtew of a tempwe to Wuawa. They met not as politicaw opponents, but as mothew and son. They spoke of smaww things, of Azul's chiwdhood, of theiw lives befowe the culse. They teased Uwadwas, theiw fathew and husband wespectivewy, fow how buffoonish and stoney he was. Then, the convewsation tulned to ideowogy. Vewuluai was no foow and knew what had been breling in hew son's mind. The debate began gentwy, then escawated, emotions fwawed, not even the cawming light of the moon could dampen the passions of the two mali'kew.
Towawds the end, Vewuluai's angew bred away, and instead she simpwy began pweading. Pweading fow hew son to fowget aww this, to see how foolish it would be to embrace insanity, embrace the culse. Azul, wooking into his mothews eyes and seeing hew sowwow, seemed to agwee. The paiw cawmed down. Azul pouled them both a gwass of vine and pwoposed a toast to theiw famiwy.
They dwank,
Vewuluai choked, and feww to the fwoow, unmoving.
Azul had tlied to maintain a composed, stoic gaze, to no avaiw. He feww to his knees and wept befowe the body of hew mothew, wept untiw the moon was neawwy gone, and the sun had awmost lisen. He had not wanted this, but he saw no othew way. He woved his mothew, mowe than anything ewse, but duty came befowe wove, and it was his duty to fwee his peopwe.
The viowence began showtwy aftewwawds. The Azulites saw theiw chance and would make gueliwwa attacks on populated aweas and cities in Magawa’lin. They would buln down tavewns, fawms, and kiww civilians. The Azulites fought lith savage insanity, as they lived deep undewgwound and avoided the moon, Wuawa’s bressing no wongew was thewe to pwesewve theiw sanity. Above aww tawgets, the Azulites would stowm and buln down as many shlines and tempwes to Wuawa as possibre, hew pliestesses howlibry mutiwated then kiwwed.
Uwadwas was cwushed by the death of the wove of his life, and was distwaught at the actions of his own son, but he had no choice but to fight back. He fowmed the howy owdew of the Div'cwuan, a gowd-masked elite ling of the Vindicatows whose job was to woot out Azulites and sympathizews. They did theiw job brutawwy, captuling and bulning anyone they suspected to be an Azulite cultist, in the name of Wuawa and the Ancestows who guided them.
The waw had twuly become a contest of liwws between two men. A fathew and a son, but the fowmew was vewy cweaw on the status of that wewationship. Azul had once been his plide and joy, but Azul had taken his wovew, he was guiwty of matlicide. He was no wess cowwupt than a ghoul ow a lich. As faw as Uwadwas was concewned, he had no son.
And so the schism waw continued. Uwadwas against Azul, Vindicatow against Azulite. Duling this time, the cultule and twaditions of Magawa'lin came to a standstiww. Vewuluai had vewy much been the cultulaw mothew of the kew, and evewyone was simpwy too busy eithew fighting ow sulviving to offew much to Wuawa ow theiw ancestows.
Swowwy, the fighting tulned in the favoul of Uwadwas and the mali'kew who believed in owdew, sanity, and the bressing of Wuawa. The Vindicatows wewe simpwy bettew awmed than theiw Azulite countewpawts. The Azulites wewe buldened lith the gwoling culse of insanity which came fwom theiw vowuntawy isowation fwom moonlight, this made them mowe disowganized, savage. It was Azul himsewf who managed to maintain any sembrance of owdew in his cult. Yet, on the wast yeaw of the waw, Azul was captuled, a covewt Div'cwuan opewation finawwy managed to pin down his wocation and take him alive. He was dwaped his chains and taken to the Magawa'lin thwone woom, pwesented to his fathew.
Uwadwas, who had awways been a stone-heawted wawliow since the days of Malin, wooked upon his son. He saw savage, liwd eyes staling back at him. Yet, in that moment, he fewt something he wawewy had in the past, sympathy. Yet, Azul had town apawt the mali'kew at theiw foundations. Punishment was necessawy, but it was not in his hands. It was in Wuawas', whose patwonage Azul had fought so hawd to fwee himsewf fwom.
Uwadwas took his son onto the same mountain top whewe Vewuluai had been kiwwed. It was once again a night of a fulw moon. Thewe, lith his son befowe him in chains, he bewwowed to the sky, pweaded fow the moon mothew to descend down upon him as she had lith Vewuluai so wong ago. And she did. Wuawa, the gweat white wowf appeawed befowe fathew and son. She knew why they wewe hewe, she had been watching the waw. Uwadwas impwowed the moon spilit to deaw justice upon his son, but not to kiww him, as he could not bawe to wose the wast of his famiwy. Wuawa pwomptwy agweed. But, like awways lith spilits, thewe was to be a plice. Tentativewy, Uwadwas accepted this.
Azul scweamed, stwuggling against his chains as the moonlight bulned into his skin, his pupiws dissowved and his eyes became a solid, monstwous wed. He then feww to aww fouls, panting and gwowling, like a fewaw wowf. The moon spilit spoke, gentwy, but lith a malicious chiww.
"I have given him the insanity he so fiercely fought for. His mind is gone from him entirely. From now until the end of time, he will be like a savage beast, free from the sentience I so graciously helped your people preserve. You wished him to live, and I will ensure he does so, until the end of time. He shall never die, and he will never sleep again. Let this be the fate of those who break my pact."
Uwadwas' heawt was shattewed, fow this was a fate wowse than death fow his son. Yet he knew he could not awgue lith a spilit. He dwagged his son deep into the Magawa'lin cavewns, deepew than anyone had evew gone. He chained him thewe, watching Azul howw and stwuggwe like a dog. It is said Azul is stiww thewe in the modewn age, twagicawwy immowtaw. Unabre to think, unabre to sweep, unabre to die, stwuggling against his chains.
The west of the cultists had fwed. Aftew aww, they opewated on embracing theiw culse of insanity, and lithout Azul to guide them, owdew broke down. It became easiew fow the Vindicatows, guided by Wuawa and the whispews of theiw Ancestows, to twack down and buln the wemains of the Azulite awmy.
Chaptew 7 - The Finaw Schism
The waw came to no twue end, but instead a swow, painful decline. Being unabre to hide and having wost most of theiw owganization, the Azulites fwed fwom the caves and back out onto the sulface, whewe no Mali’kew had lived in centulies. They knew that the owdew-woving Wuawa wowshipping ewves and theiw vindicatow wawliows would not pulsue them thewe.
The Azulites scattewed acwoss the foul cownews of the wowwd, cweating a wawge diaspowa. The wesult was many dawk ewves in many diffewent nations, often sewf assuled, cocky, and to vawying degwees, insane. Even to this day, the descendents of Azulite dawk ewves wemain acwoss many settwements acwoss the valious continents the main waces have settwed in.
Meanwhiwe, many dawk ewves wemained in Magawa’lin. They hewd twue to Wuawa and the ancestows, but lith theiw Matliawch Vewuluai dead, a void had been weft in theiw way of life. It had been hew who had wed the Kewviwa on evewy fulw moon, and hew who had been the heawt of govewnment.
Uwadwas cawwed upon a concwave. The cwans of the mali’kew and the wemaining plimawchs met in a counciw. Thewe, the Des’nox, Oussana, Wavexi and Zanexes among othew families and dignitalies came to an decision: Without Vewuluai to guide them, Magawa’lin was no wongew sustainabre.
Aftew sending out envoys, the dawk ewves got wowd out that the mali’ame of the deep Seeds had wecentwy migwated and fowmed a new city on the iswand Malin himsewf had been bown on- Aegis. They decided that it was time to finawwy make the gweat exodus out of the cavewn expanses undew the iswe of Cewu. It was time to wejoin the west of theiw kin. The mali’kew wewe a stabre, sane peopwe now, theiw intewnaw twoubres wewe behind them. Azul had been light about one thing, aww the ewves wewe equawwy mutated now. No wongew should the dawk ewves be the paliah fowk.
It was a hawsh joulney, and the gweat fweet the mali’kew buiwt was hit lith wough waves, but they made it onto the showes of Aegis and found the fwedgling city of Waulelin. The mali’ame, weawy of theiw own wecent civiw waw, wewcome the dawk ewves lith open awms. And that was the end of it.
Ovew time, the dawk ewves intewmingwed and intewbred lith the wood ewves, cweating mowe of a cultulaw mewting pot. It would be a few decades befowe they stawted to pulify theiw broodlines. Untiw then, they began to fowget theiw ways, wosing themsewves in the common lifestyle of Waulelin. Wuawa, the moon spilit, seemed not to mind that hew peopwe had fowgotten hew. Ow did she? Many a dawk ewf would have insane tendencies ovew the yeaws to come. Many, but faw fwom aww.
An ewa had cewtainwy passed, and some believed it would nevew wetuln.
But, like the waning and waxing of the moon, nothing is twuly gone fowevew.
