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Nation Name:
Eduum Forests Alliance

Races of the Nation: 17
Dryads 3
Treemen 6
Eldar 3
Dark Elves 3
Wild Elves 3
Nation History: The Forests of Eduum were first claimed by the Treemen along with the Dryads. Although the Wild Elves slowly crept in and claimed some parts of the forest it was large enough that the Treemen and Dryads could keep hidden.

The Eldar fleeing a now unknown enemy came to the forest and quickly carved out a city much to the anger of the forest-kind. A war broke out among the two the Eldar employing fire magic to tame the forests. Golodiloth led his people to war learning magics never before utilized by the Treemen.

Arkamina’al’dalid a Dryad of the Willow went to the Wild elves and asked for their help in the war, many refused feeling a loyalty to the kin, but some few volunteered to fight and they taught their archery skills to Arkamina who became the first Dryad to fight in the war.

The Eldar seeking allies of their own went to the Wild elves too but they were refused, the wild elves remaining were the ones who had not wished to spill the blood of the Eldar. They definitely did not wish to fight their own kind. The Eldar High Lord Asildar Lasril sought help in a unlikely place, he had heard of a Dark Elf clan living deep beneath the forests. He sent his best diplomats and warriors knowing the Dark Elves would respect strength first and words second.

Meanwhile the war raged on and the Treemen and Wild elves learnt to fight together and the Eldar began failing being unable to field the numbers they needed to keep up the fight. Asildar held on to the hopes that his diplomats would return with the Dark elves aid. He and the few remaining Eldar had no where left to run these forests were suppose to be a safe haven but they brought nothing but more fighting and death which the Eldar couldn't afford.
They retreated to their city and the Treemen and allies besieged the city kept back by the Eldar magics. Unable to get closer due to the Eldar's fire magic and catapults on the walls.
The eldest treeman known as Falenghorn the First Tree stepped forth into the no man's land between the city and offered the city peace if they promised to keep only the land they had taken and no more.

Lord Asildar and his council after long deliberation took the offer and a treaty was drawn and the war ended. The Wild elves went back to their settlements and told their people what had occurred. They too asked the Treemen for permisson to live in the forests and were given much more freedom than the Eldar, due to their aid in the war and the fact of they had little impact on the forest and respected it.

And so the Eduum Alliance was formed and they enjoyed peace for a few years. Things were looking up for the Alliance as the forest recovered and the races settled into life together.

Until the diplomats and warriors Asildar had sent returned with a Dark elven army at their backs. The Treemen saw this and at first thought they had been betrayed by the Eldar and prepared for war again. Asildar met with Falenghorn and told him how he had sent his people beneath the forests for help and how he had thought them to be dead.
The Alliance prepared to meet the Dark Elves outside the city standing together where before their was only blood and fire. Treemen standing above everything, arms ladened with rocks, Eldar with blades and magic at hand, Wild elves armed with bows and quivers bristling with arrows, the Dryad forces armed with clubs of spiked wood.

Having called on them the Dark Elves were unlikely to go back under quietly. When the diplomats were told what had occurred since their absence they tried to explain what had happened to the Dark Elves but were met with anger and were all killed. The Dark Elves emerged from the forest around the city many astride spiders armed with swords and bows. Their leaders first asked to speak with the Eldar lord who had called them. Asildar refused only wishing to speak as part of the Alliance. A war council was formed a member from each race. Arkamina’al’dalid the Dryad, Golodiloth the Treemage (as he now styled himself having learnt much from the Eldar Archmages), Armendrel Akinoth a leader of the Wild elves.

The council met with the Dark Elves a guard at their back weapons at the ready. They offered single combat to the one who would step forth as the champion of the Dark Elves. None did. The disparate Dark elves had no clear leader and no idea whom the Alliance would pick to fight. Arkamina’al’dalid speaking for the war council said "that is our strength, we have many people with many strengths and with wise leadership know how to fight any foe."
"Will you join us", the council asked hands still tense on their weapons ready for the truce to end. The dark elves conversed with each other sizing up the army gathered against them. They decided they hadn't a chance never before had they fought so many different races at once.

All at once the Dark elves lay down their weapons all except one small clan, named Eleros whom were the best warriors. Their mage used his magic to set alight Golodiloth not fathoming Golodiloth was also a mage he did not run unlike his brothers he directed the fire upon the mage disintegrating him and leaving only smoking bones and a scorchmark.
The allied forces quickly dispatched most of the Eleros. The remaining dark elf army did not pick up their weapons but accepted the treaty like the other races before them respecting the strength of the Alliance and seeing a chance in it for themselves.

Since the war and subsequent encounter with the dark elves the Forest has grown, both itself and its peoples. They have developed a new culture entirely a mix of magic and love for nature. Tempered with a dislike of outsiders, all having been witness to what happened when others moved in. They built fortresses and castles to guard from outsiders and trained their armies ceasely learning to work together like few other nations could.

Dates are referred to as AT (After Treaty), (Pre-Eldar) and FY (Fire Years) as established by the Eldar, as Treemen have no need for time. Date is currently 233 AT.

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