#peridon

Long Ago the Sindar ruled Kingdoms in the Countries known today as Oberon and Peridon. Both were collective-Kingdom countries originally, with the Sindar in Oberon ruling in their kingdom of Caladiel in tandem with the Dwarf Lords and the Sindar in Peridon ruling their kingdom of Aduial-Amon collectively with the Dwarves, Halflings, and Silven Elves. These collections were held together by trade and monthly councils where the rulers (or in the case of the Silven of Peridon, whichever representative the Grand Druid who ruled the clan decided to send).

In Oberon, the trade was simple, the Dwarves provided armor, ore, and blank runes for enchanting, while the Sindar provided bards, elder wine, grand parties, and large discounts on items that they enchanted for the Dwarves. It was actually the Dwarves that nicknamed the Sindar as “Grey Elves” due to their grey skin and silvery hair. During the attacks from the Duregar, the Dwarf Sindar alliance strengthened, as had their alliance with the Moror Elves that came to learn and study under the Sidarian enchanters and clerics as the three races banded together to protect the county. Eventually they gained the aid of Gnomes, both the forest and rock Gnomes that inhabited the upper lands, and the Deep Gnomes from the Underdark, promising the Dwarven Kingdoms in the mountains to hold the Duregar at bay in the Deep of the Underdark. Trouble still ensued for thousand of ears though.

In Oberon, the Sindarian Bards were largely promised to the Halflings, providing entertainment during festivals as well as elder wine in return for crops and the benefits of the halfling agriculture within their Shires. Some of the better off Shires even offered their top chefs to the Aduial-Amon, and extended these offers to the Dwarven Kingdoms where they traded crops for iron commodities and jewelry. The Silven provided all communities with medicinal herbs, leather armor,  and wooden weapons and shields, trading for crops, Sindarian elder wine, and iron commodities from the Dwarves. This worked for a while, though there were tensions between the different cultures. Especially with the Matriarchal Sindarian society sending two representatives at a time (Both their King/Queen and High Priestess of Selune), and in the ruling of King Durenar having a Moror Elf accompanying the High Priestess while the Dwarves had one (an elected King meant to represent all 3 Dwarven Kingdoms) and the Halflings and Silven switched representatives often.

Eventually a select few Silven and the Moror journeyed to the West due to a odd calling to somewhere past the sea, most Silvan deciding to stay with their Clans and the Sindarian seeing no reason to leave. Before this journey though the Moror had helped to build several temples to the Elven gods of Selune (goddess of the moon, magic, and strength in fragility), Rhoxar (God of the sun, warriors, and loyalty in strength), Silvanus (God/goddess of the forests, nature, and freedom), and Targayn (Harbringer/ruler of death, unknown gender so commonly referred to as god or goddess depending on who you speak to). The Earth Goddess Ellerisa, mother to the previous 4, was  worshiped strictly through respect of the earth and no temples were ever built. The largest and most elaborate temple was the Moonfall Temple, built for the goddess Selune behind a waterfall and with the main chamber, holding the Ithilfea stone which was sacred to the Sindarian.

Roughly 200 years past during the absence of the Moror and select Silvan had left, and some of the Sindar began making trouble within the kingdoms. King Durenar of Aduial-Amon had been an iron fist ruler, and opted to ban the priestess and several wrong-doing Sindar from the kingdoms and to the mountains, far from Selune’s moonlight, as punishment. This caused tensions with the Dwarves as these troublemakers began stealing and murdering within the Dwarven Kingdoms, causing the Dwarves to drive them further into the dark, accidentally causing a rift between their world and the Underdark. The banished, and other banished later on, Sindarian made homes for themselves in this Deep realm and did not re-emerge until thousands of years later.

Due to the lack of help Durenar offered the Dwarves for the prisoners and wrong-doers he’d sent to the kingdom, the treaties and the trades between he two stopped as the Dwarven King was furious. Taking note of the outcome, Durenar’s sister Ithilina convinced her husband, the King of Caladiel, to convince the Dwarves to agree to making an entrance directly to the Underdark by way of their crafting and Sindarian magic. The King sent his Bards to convince them, all but admitting that he enchanted them into agreeing, a decision that later on destroyed the relationship between the Dwarves and Sindar of Oberon. The entrance was built though, and Sindarian wrongdoers were sent to the Under dark, the Dwarves refusing to give such a harsh punishment to their own. These elves still have yet to emerge from the Deep.

When the Moror finally came back, they referred to themselves as “High Elves” and claimed superiority over the Sindar, believing that they had “met Selune upon the water and were graced with her wisdom and Arcane Knowledge.” Under this excuse, they went to war with Adruial-Amon, the leader of the attack being the High Priestess Eluwin the previous protege of the Sindarian Priestess Sanya. These two faced off within the Moonfall temple, breaking Ithilfea in the process, only for the shards to be spirited away by Sanya in an escape. the Priestess gave a shard to each of her proteges, sending them away with different surviving families of Sindarian to escape Arudial-Amon, as the Moror and their companions, a group of Silvan that were elevated to “Wood Elves”, were too strong to fight off. Their Silva brethren were unlucky and did not escape when the Wood Elves turned their eyes upon them and attacked, deeming the Silvan as close to animals and subjugating them to grunt warriors and herbalists under the Wood Elf rule. The Silvan dubbed these elves as the Eregor, or “Thorn Elves” to separate themselves. Due to their crimes of sending criminals to their Kingdoms, the Dwarf Lords withheld any help.