The Elves of Twilight Peak
Architects and artificers whose seat of power is Twilight Peak: a proud, private people whose devices outlast their crumbling towers.
- Before the Invasion
- Between the Ages
- Dark Times
Description
The elves hold Twilight Peak as their seat of power. Most Meliorans picture them as forest-loving druids, but Aurelius saw a people who excel at adapting any environment to their ways: intricate architects, carvers of cities and temples into living rock, and artificers whose devices keep working long after their towers have crumbled. They are proud and private, and outsiders were rarely invited to Sun's Cradle.
Historical context
Eons ago Twilight Peak was split so that its core of fire could be carried out of Sun's Cradle, and many elves burned for it. In the war of the dead the elves dreaded that their own dead would rise against them, and it was one of their own, Abigail, who helped end that war. Afterwards few returned to the forest; most, a troll recalled, went to the mountain and never rebuilt. Those whom Umbra claimed became the Unlit.
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LocationTwilight Peak
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CreatureThe Unlit
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