Elves

[SECRET]

In the far west is where the Elven race used to reside, until a great disaster ocurred, once again an arrogant group of magic users with support from various governments attempted to access Paradise, like it had been attempted before in Otasa 4000 years ago. The result of this attempt was failure, a gigantic heatwave eminated in an istant from the ritual sitr as soon and the mages had made their attempt, the first heatwave was simply a powerful gust of very hot air, then a second heatwave was emitted from the ritual site and this one completely incenerated the mages and all life in a 30 kilometer diameter, this flash of heat and fire was seen far beyond the horizon, these heatwaves slowly it continued to burn away everything, of course the mages had known failure might occur, but due to their hubris they had overestimated their confidence, for one in their mits had failed, and Paradise had come forth to take what they tried to take from it.

Slowly, from teh center of the western continent the newly called Scorched Lands expanded ever further, many elves fled eastward toward the coast. It took a total of 150 years for the fires to burn down the entire continent, not one living thing was spared by Paradise, such is the toll for attempting to access it.

[Elven Culture]

In the post migration Elven culture three vitrues arose, the first being "Integrity", the Elves swore to the people of Eiran to protect their lands in exchange for being allowed to stay, this has encouraged Elves to almost always uphold all promises they make. The second virtue is "Truth", this virtue is that of silence and secrecy and to NEVER reveal to any outsider what happened in the west, not even telling those elves who do not know. But it is still permitted to discuss this between eachother, but everyone has to never reveal anything new than what already has been in a conversation, the knowledge of what happened is supposed to die with those who saw it happen, if any Elf is curious enough to ask the only explanation that is given is this: "Iso Las Paradis", it is simply left as that. The third virtue is "Brotherhood/Sisterhood", to never harm another Elf if possible, enough harm has ocurred already. Though, not every elf must abide by these rules.

When greeting eachother elves may say "Integrity, Truth and Brotherhood" (replace "Brotherhood" with "Sisterhood" if the greeter is female and not manle), this is meant as a sort of promise to another Elf that the greeter upholds these virtuel, some nobles in Eiran have also taken up to saying this.