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The King of Elfland figure is a little different in my game. He is the Elven God-king of the third City-ship that slipped between worlds in the Wild.
The Wild is another plane of existence where nature dominates to a much larger degree than on Earth. It appears to be endless and frankly illogical. For instance the sun and the moon hold sway over large sections of the Wild and appear to not set. In the Summerlan Hold where the Elf King (sometimes) holds court the sun always shines and the elves have to journey down the Fall River to find the area where the night Queens Court holds sway under the stars and moon.
Time passes very strangely in the wild. At least once a powerful pc wizard journeyed there to find the answer to a very important question only to arrive back on earth with the secret in time to kill his own great grandfather (who was 16) and cause himself to vanish as if he had never been and a stranger to suddenly appear that everyone had instantly known for years.
As one of my players put it.
"F$%$ the Elves and the Wild, Every single time we mess with that stuff things just go sideways and flip end over end and we end up far more confused and unknowing than when we started.
The Godking is a tragic figure however. He has gone insane and although at times appears wise and Kingly, it is only fleeting. For most of the time he dances and sings and plays the flute for years at a time and if you hear it you to will dance and sing for joy and sorrow until the music stops. Mortals often dance to death and he has even been known to slip between worlds and ensnare entire villages in his wild cavorting. The trail of dead bodies and crushed souls he leaves in his wake are terrifying to behold but not as horrifying as his sudden bouts of motionlessness.
Once while in the mortal world he danced and sung his way into the middle of a vast battle and carried off all the men left alive but one who had been injured in the head and could no longer hear. The Elven God-King lead the men deep into the lost woods and suddenly stopped. Everyone following stopped as well. The Deaf Soldier tried to rouse them and get them away but none would move and he couldn't move them.
He left them there and went for help but it took him a week to find help and return.
When he did it was to find the Elven God-King gone but the soldiers and other followers were still there. Turned to stone, unmoving forever more.
The Forest of Stone Men is still there and several important battles for my pc's have occurred while fighting among the stone men.
I loved it!
I'll adopt that concept.
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After conquering the known world they fell into decline and after breaking the shackles of Law soon embraced Chaos and Sorcery. Now many centuries after their decline the elves now called The White, now hold only their original City from the stars.
These elves now live in the forests of the earth?