The Elven Dragonlords

Era of Elves / ~950 thousand years ago
After the world was devastated and the Avatars left in the Exodus the surviving young races began reforming small tribes and fought one another in the power vacuum left by the ancient dragons. The elves were no different. However, they were the most numerous of the remaining young races, and among them were a number of powerful and influential slave-lieutenants to the wyrms that for whatever reason stayed behind (or were left behind). These elves used draconic artifacts to assert influence over a number of younger dragons, that they then used in battle. With the strength of these dragons they conquered the weaker elven tribes and eventually formed a small number of competing great armies. These general-kings became known as the Dragonlords.

The Dragonlords and their armies clashed across the world for centuries, but eventually established a sort of power balance between them. While never having true peace, the battles among them became smaller conflicts as a quasi-peaceful state emerged that allowed a true elven civilization to grow. This period of growth lasted for over a thousand years centered on the continent named then as Valdemar; meanwhile, the machinations of the Dragonlord's continued. They created dynasties where they passed on their dragon controlling artifacts to their children. After preparing during this period of calm, the most powerful of the Dragonlords finally unleashed his plan of conquest. Having schemed and manipulated the other factions against one another, or else to join him, this Conqueror marched on the opposing armies which could not manage to ally against his forces. Legions of elves and dragons marched across the lands and finally united all of elven kind under one great empire, and the Conqueror became known as the first elven Emperor.

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