Joerg said:
>Speaking of the EWF, it appears that Greatway was at least an EWF ally,
>and the elves started out as members as well.
Well you're half right..
"The Votanki king Hargaard Silverfist was the envoy who returned the treasure to the Empire of the Wyrms Friends in Dragon Pass in the year 720. His trip's profit surprised him, and he returned with tales of great wealth and splendor. Few were distressed when envoys from the empire came to the lands and solicited support. Hargaard consented and so did the local elves. These two forces, with Imperial dragonewt aid, suppressed the dwarves and drove the trolls back over their mountain, and then entered a period of relative peace. The trolls sacked the city and shallower tunnels of Greatway about this time, probably in the year 747, and also burned the forests covering the land now called Dangerground." Griffin Mountain p. 7
It's kind of hard to be allies with someone who has "suppressed" you. They might have ended up as allies but they sure didn't start out as allies.
According to the same source the elves of the Elder Wilds seceded from the EWF around 890 over their refusal to worship the leaders of the EWF as gods.
Oliver
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