Sun's Cradle
The elven heart of Twilight Peak, crowned by a grand palace, from which the core of fire was once carried away at a terrible price.
- Before the Invasion
- Between the Ages
- Dark Times
Description
Sun's Cradle lies at the heart of Twilight Peak, crowned by a grand palace and, by Aurelius's words, surrounded by a city. Outsiders were rarely invited there; Abigail held that they could never understand how the elves honour justice and the world.
Historical context
It was out of Sun's Cradle that the elves once carried the core of fire, at the cost of many elven lives, in the deed that opened the Rend. Abigail, an elf of Sun's Cradle, invoked that disaster in the war of the dead when she warned against meddling with the core again. In the Dark Times Umbra held the palace, dark crystals from the Umbral Plane grew in its halls, and there the stranger's road through the Primeweald came to its end.
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LocationTwilight Peak
The elven seat of power: a mountain split in two, with a city, catacombs and prisons carved deep within, taken over by Umbra in the Dark Times.Ancient days · Between · Dark Times
LocationThe Rend
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CharacterAbigail
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FactionThe Elves of Twilight Peak
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History