Athel Kellar

Nearly three thousand years ago, the elves of Eladri landed on the eastern shores of Damasia, and what they found was a land torn by millenia of empires rising and falling, and still recovering from the ravages of the Age of Shadow. Humanity was still in its infancy, with tribes just beginning to form along the Austurian and Aquilan regions, the dwarves were still suffering from the cataclysm that had destroyed their empire, and the gnomes who had won the land back from the clutches of the Betrayer burrowed deep into the roots of the northern mountains as their technology crumbled. This left the land without stewards, a perfect environment for the elves to flourish.

The largest of these groups, and one of the first pioneers of this new land, were led by the Sidhe Lady Elizerain, an Eladrin Elder who had led her people to Damasia after experiencing visions of a world in turmoil and in dire need of guidance. The elves settled first into the plains and lightly forested lands along the Gulf of Eamon, sowing the first seeds and saplings that would grow into the great forests of Damasia. As small communities of Elves began to take shape in the land that would one day become the City States of Ea, Elizerain continued her journey northwest, there a great forest once stood, burned and clear-cut by hordes of Drow and Goblins during the age of Shadow. Elizerain wept at the anguished cries of the tortured and dead trees, and so decided it would be here she would focus her efforts in regrowing this wounded land.

At the heart of the devastation, Elizerain planted a cutting of the World Tree Eladrassil, and her followers set to singing the trees back to life. From this sapling, grew a great oak from which the spirits of the elves and forest would be united. The Great Oak of Eternity grew to full height in the course of ten years, its mystical seeds spreading throughout the land, many of which becoming the hearts of the Great Glades.