Tensions between elvish and human kinds have been rising - land has been taken, rights have been removed, and hatred is starting to take charge.
The elves and humans have always lived somewhat apart. The men stick to the open land, the elves stick to the woods or build cites on the water.
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Much of the hatred felt between the two races was caused because of a crossbreed (that is, half-human half-elfin animal) that happened between two lovers. The child was kept secret, and lived alone with her mother in the human world for much of her life - never knowing her father was an elf. However, she slowly began to realize she was different. At that time, elves and humans weren't allowed to live together - which is why her mother kept the secret. Her mother had long since died, and left the 19 year old girl all alone. She was sure she was different...there were things that couldn't be normal....so she began searching for clues about her father. All she knew was that her mother said he was a good man, but things couldn't work. Tonyi had never asked any other questions about him, and now it was too late. After a year of searching for clues about her father, she gave up. She had read about the powers of the elves...the powers to control nature....and wanted to know if she could too. So she had tried, and, little by little, she found she could do things.
However, once she knew she had the power, she was unable to control it. Now and then she would just make things happen without wanting to, which led to her being caught.
The humans called her an elf. They ordered that she be killed for "endangering our ways of life with powers unfit for this world". Humans were scared of magic, and who could blame them - they had seen what it had done in the past.
The elves, upon hearing this, demanded that she be released from the humans and join the elves.
The humans refused. Thus led to the first hostile action the elfin government ever took on the humans. They raided the jail; freeing Tonyi. Many humans were killed in the freeing of her, and this led to panic about the elves and what they would do.
The human people were so scared, they created new laws, aimed at completely shutting the elves out from their lives.
Elves are very strong, but there are far fewer of them, and soon the humans were demanding they give up their land. The elves fought back, but most of them didn't want the danger, and moved to islands outside the human empire where they wouldn't be in fear.
One elfin country didn't leave. They sent their finest armies to block the men from getting to them. This country is known as Varnali.
Since then, things cooled down. The humans settled, as did the elves. There was always hatred at the elves though, and often you would get an odd few attacking small elfin cites. Since the battle of Varnali, a little over 300 years have passed.
Then, later, humans started to increase their land and borders, and Varnali was attacked without warning. Little was lost, but the elves fear that a larger, much more powerful attack may be on the way. Since then, the High Elves (a powerful group of elves which live in the city of Mocandrana, capable of seeing small and random glances into the future) have been sending reports to every city, informing them of any impending danger...
And so, our story begins......
Comments? And yes, that is just the first draft of the story.