Chapter 12: Origins
When it comes to the dark elves, there are many stories that can be traced, from their origins to their current situation, in fact, their history is the history of the Redstone Continent, the recorded part of history.
This history begins 10,000 years ago, and begins with the race now known as the elves. The earliest race that appeared on the Redstone Continent (according to the definition of the concept of race by the current Mages of the Redstone Continent, only the race is the race that has wisdom and formed a social system), that is, the elves who now live in "tranquility", and they are sometimes called ground elves in order to distinguish them from the dark elves. At that time, the elves were the most intelligent race on the Redstone Continent, they were the first wise people to realize themselves and the environment, when they began the social division of labor and formed a social hierarchy, there were no other races on the Redstone Road, and now humans, orcs, etc., at that time, there was no technology, no society, and even could not realize their own existence, and the evolution process of the elves far exceeded these races. At that time, the territory of the elves was much larger than it is now, covering almost all continents, and the scale was larger than the current human sphere of influence.
Because of this, the elves have witnessed the origin and development of other races. In the long process of evolutionary preparation for thousands of years, the elves accompanied these low-level races to evolve together, and when the elves began to take shape, they began to observe these neighbors around them, and also recorded their changes, plus their understanding of the original co-evolution, completed the evolutionary history of other races:
Australopithecus, which was widely active in the western part of the continent, originally had thick long arms and agile lower limbs, living in dense forests, with the fading of the forest, their range of activity gradually narrowed, and the living environment in some areas has been completely changed. The lower limbs stretched, they fell from the tree to the ground, they began to walk upright, their hair was shortened and fell out, in order to fight for more food, they began to eat meat, and learned to use tools, and finally formed the rudiments of human beings;
At the easternmost end of the redstone, there is a herd of protocattle, which are huge in size, with two straight horns on their heads, and as the number of predators increases, their originally relaxed living environment becomes more and more dangerous, forcing their limbs to become strong, and their lower bodies need to be stronger and more powerful to support their whole body, and the protocattle, which cannot adapt to it, are devoured by predators, and the remaining protocatenal cattle partially migrate and partly evolve into tall minotaurs. Today, the minotaurs can still be found in the shadows of their ancestors, tall and burly bodies, unruly bones, and vertical horns unique to their race;
Of the many predators of the original cattle, most of them no longer exist. With the evolution of the original cattle, these predators did not have enough food sources to sustain, and the communities that could not adapt died out one by one, and one of the creatures began to migrate on a large scale in order to adapt to this environment, they had strong fangs, fast movements, aggressive nature, and a leopard-like body, which were called swift beasts by the elves, and they were called swift beasts by the elves in the long process of coming from the east to the west, the original extended fangs became short, the limbs were elongated, and the fierce and bloodthirsty habits were continued in their veins, and they became them, orcs;
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When the races began to flourish, and at first the elves were happy about it, they were no longer a lonely being, and the desire to have a neighbor was so strong that the elves began to help them, teaching them to use tools, to build houses, to use rudimentary magic, and at that time, the elves mixed with other races. One of the most benefits to the elves is humans, since the birth of human beings between the two races have been in harmony, human beings rely on elf technology in many technologies, and the elves are also very friendly to humans.
With the passage of time, the mixing of elves with other races led to a new trend in the division of labor, where elves were responsible for the higher work, while the lower ones were done by other races, and some of the elves began to get used to this life, their minds shifted from the primitive noble goals, and they began to enslave the lower races.
At this point, two kinds of antagonistic consciousness have developed among the elves, the kind elves keep that noble heart, thinking that they should obey the choice of the lord of nature, and the race chosen by nature has its own meaning of existence, and they choose to help other races develop, while the violent elves think that this is a development of themselves. The best time to enslave other creatures, these two consciousnesses fiercely refute each other, and both sides soon find that language cannot solve this conflict, and finally the earliest war since recorded history inevitably occurred, the storm of war swept the entire Redstone Continent, as long as there are elves, there is the breath of war. This war is now called "Origin", and it is related to the future of all races, and it is the www.biquge.info of the various civilizations on the Redstone Continent.
At the beginning of the war, the two elven forces were inseparable, and as the war spread, other races were also involved, and they chose the camp of the kind elves, and the balance of the war instantly tilted to the coalition army, and the violent elves began to retreat one after another, and were driven to the current "Tingwu Mountain", which is a huge mountain at the junction of Tranquility, Comoher, and Serenso.
In the canyon at the foot of Mount Tinwald there is a deep natural cavern caused by a subsidence caused by a major earthquake, which is believed to lead to the underground world. Those defeated elves were unwilling to accept defeat and ventured into this big hole, which was the last time they would see these elves, white-skinned elves. The elves of the ground did not continue the pursuit of their brothers, the war had caused great trauma to the earth, the magic of the elves came from the gift of nature, and they used the power of this bounty to destroy nature, it was an unforgivable disaster, the elves discussed and stationed a guard force in the Tingwu Mountain, while the other elves began to help the earth to regain life.
Now we can get to the point and tell the story of the dark elves, but one thing must be stated, after the dark elves fled underground, they lost all contact with the surface until they formed a new force underground, and all the stories during this period were occasionally obtained from the mouths of adventurers who came out alive underground or captured dark elf soldiers, so there may be some differences between the underground world and the real underground world, which is inevitable, and we will continue below.
Those defeated elves, after escaping to the underground did not be ruined by the cruel living environment underground, on the contrary, they survived with tenacious will, accustomed to the underground living environment, and thrived underground, after thousands of years of adaptation, their physical characteristics have changed dramatically, the original snow-white skin has become dark and rough, and the hair has changed from golden yellow to miserable white, which is the origin of the name "dark elf".
In order to survive underground, the dark elves must fight against the vicious underground natives, fighting all kinds of strange creatures that were unheard of before, their first life was spent in blood and death, but they have a whole army, compared to the races that are still in the rudimentary civilization, they are in a slight advantage, after getting used to fighting and plundering, the noble nature of the elves is soaked in killing and fighting, they become cruel and bloodthirsty, and war is no longer for survival, but for plundering.
The natives, because the mages on the ground did not have the opportunity to go down to investigate, but could only learn from the description of the dark elves themselves, that the scorpions and spiders were the most widespread and most threatening to them in the underground of Tingwu Mountain.
Without knowing the difference between underground and ground scorpions, the mages could only guess that the evolution of the former scorpion clan had become complete at that time. They are able to stand, have large, hard pincers, and scorpion tails that they hunt for. They also have a perfect social division of labor and intelligent products, there are strong nests they have built in many places underground, and the evolution of the scorpion tribe has helped them to remove their original disadvantages, they will not eat each other, there is no hibernation, they can adapt to the test of high and low temperatures.
Now, the once glorious scorpion clan is no longer there, after the dark elves came to the underground, there were countless wars between them, the building of the scorpion clan is the survival place that the dark elves urgently need, in order to snatch this resource, the dark elves fought everywhere, they soon discovered the Achilles heel of the scorpion clan, the scorpion clan has long been accustomed to the underground world, no resistance to light, using this, the dark elves slaughtered the scorpion tribe, and the remaining scorpion tribe also lost news in the escape. In the dangerous underworld, this means disappearing.
The defeat of the Scorpion Clan allowed the Dark Elves to take over all their territory. Adventurers returning from the underworld describe the architecture of the Dark Elves as a semi-circular building made of a mixture of rock fragments and dirt, like a half-sphere on the ground, and the entire city is made up of countless hemispheres, which is completely contrary to the architectural style of the Elves, and the mages believe that it is the architectural style of the Scorpion Clan, and after 10,000 years, the Dark Elves have adapted to this strange closed structure.
Spiders are also natives of the Underworld, and their evolution has made them one of the most dangerous killers in the Underworld, unlike the unevolved spiders, their original eight-legged function has changed, with six legs for standing and walking, and two legs of their forelimbs for other tasks. The spider tribes can weave silk webs that are barely visible to the naked eye, and hunt with tiny amounts of toxins that can completely render food unconscious, and they showed signs of unity and cooperation before 10,000 years. The Spider Clan's struggle with the Dark Elves is also inevitable, their range of activities covers most of the underground area, and poses a huge threat to the activities of the Dark Elves, for which the Dark Elves have launched several large-scale sweeps to completely drive this large group out of sight.
Compared to the Scorpions, the Spiders have benefited from the incompleteness of their social system, and they have not lost the ability to survive alone, allowing them to survive, although their evolutionary process has regressed by an incalculable number of years, and the descendants of the Spider Race can still be found in some isolated corners of the underground.
After destroying the two opponents of the Scorpion and the Spider, the Dark Elves can develop freely in a fairly wide area, and the city-state of the Scorpion Clan has given them the conditions for development, and the various hardships they have experienced have made their vitality stronger than before. The closest city-state to Mount Tinvort is called Gricher, and for a long time served as the center of the Dark Elves in the underworld, due to its proximity to the surface. The shame and hatred of being driven to the underground world after thousands of years of brewing, the dark elves became crazy, they began to plan to counterattack the elves on the ground from the moment they established the city-state, they formed an army, constantly probed the situation on the ground, and one night, the revenge force of the dark elves began a large-scale counterattack.
The ground elves didn't even know that their brothers were still alive underground, and they didn't even know that they had developed an army of this size, and that the guards stationed in Tingwu Mountain would all be wiped out in that sneak attack before they could make an effective resistance. Taking advantage of the sluggishness of the ground power, the dark elves occupied a large piece of land in the western part of the continent in a short period of time, and their people returned to the ground, for the land and rights they once had, and in order to satisfy their bloodthirsty madness of plundering, the second large-scale war in the Redstone Continent began.
The second war is even more difficult for the ground creatures, the dark elves have long been prepared and have made a complete surprise plan, their army is like a hurricane to destroy the continent unscrupulously, and the army of the ground forces has developed a passive and sluggish habit in peace, and is inferior to the opponent in combat effectiveness and reflexes, and the situation of the war is very critical. It was also at that time that the new spells studied by the mages of the elves played a role in saving the world, and a new magic system appeared on the Redstone Continent, summoning magic and summoning minions from the Otherworld to help in the battle.
As for summoning magic, it is difficult to explain it even if it takes a long time, so I will not repeat it here, but briefly explain it. Summoning magic uses magical energy to tear open the rift in space, and the mages have confirmed that in addition to the redstone continent, in other distant places, or distant continents, there are also other creatures, and the summoning magic is to open the rift in the space in those places, and capture the creatures there to the redstone world. According to the summoning mage's energy, it determines the time when the summoned creature is charged and stored in the Redstone Continent, and also determines the ability of the summoned creature. Originally, summoning magic was only used to summon native monsters, but to this day, there are many mages who study summoning magic, and the creatures they summon are also strange.
In the second elven war, summoning magic played a huge role in impetusing, and the ground elves summoned a large number of creatures to gain a slight advantage in strength, and with the help of the power of the alien allies, the invading dark elves were driven back to the area of Tingwu Mountain.
This time the war cost both sides dearly, and the dark elves chose to retreat strategically after a few months of stubborn resistance, and all returned to the underground world, and the elves regained control of the surface world.
After this lesson, the leaders of the terrestrial creatures met in Tinvorshan to address the potential hidden danger of the Dark Elves, and they decided to take advantage of the war to enter the underground world and complete the work that should have been done a thousand years ago. As promised, they gathered the rest of their forces and fought their way into the underworld.
Perhaps the Lord of Nature chose the Dark Elves, and although the Allies attacked Grecher, the Dark Elves used the dark environment and underground creatures to resist and successfully repelled the Allies, and both warriors were lost.
After that war, the surface and the underworld were changed.
The ground elves regretted the depravity of their race, the dark elves caused deep disasters to the earth again and again, but the ground elves could not do anything, in order to make up for their mistakes, the entire race began to migrate westward, concentrated in the southwest end of the redstone continent, from the current redstone geography, surrounded by the Komoch Empire, the Serenso Empire, and the wilderness where the orcs gathered, the area of Tingwo Mountain, the elves called an area of Tingwo Mountain "Quiet Land" The elves have lived in tranquility for generations since then, and they do this to prevent the dark elves from making a comeback from under the Tinwo Mountains again, and it is also their self-redemption for their own mistakes.
Since the elves began to move westward on a large scale, most of their territory has been taken over by humans, which is why the field of human activity is now the largest.
In the Underworld, the Dark Elves realized that Grecher was too close to the surface world, and that their center would be the first to be affected if the war resumed, so they moved their center from Grecher to the current capital of the Dark Elves, Uneken.
After that, I don't know if it was a long, long time ago or now, because the war between the ground elves and the dark elves has never stopped. At the entrance of the big cave leading to the underground of Tingwu Mountain, the dark elves and the ground elves stationed at the entrance of the cave continued to fight, this battle was maintained intermittently, and no one knew how many years it had been, but it continued.
At first, the Dark Elves had gathered an army to attack, but they were all repelled by the Ground Elves, and they found that the Ground Elves had all migrated to their only exit, and the battle between them began almost continuously, and the Dark Elves were killed like locusts from the ground, and were destroyed, and then killed, and then destroyed, and the cycle repeatedly, and the world above and below was accustomed to it.
In addition to the war, the current environment in which the dark elves live has also begun to become harsh, the races of the underground world have entered the post-evolutionary era, and the two spheres of influence of the spirit sucking monsters and eye demons that they didn't know about before are getting bigger and bigger, they are all natural killers, and preying on the dark elves is a bare effort, and the strict zhòng inhibits the development of the dark elves in the underground space.
According to the adventurer's recollections, there are four main races that exist underground, the Dark Elves, the Spirit Suckers, the Eye Demons, and the Gray Dwarves, among which the Dark Elves and Gray Dwarves are the most numerous. The gray dwarves have been in the underground world for a long time, and it is not certain whether they settled underground before the dark elves, if it weren't for the accidental exploration of the gray dwarf city-state that has been quite large-scale, maybe the gray dwarves will still be happy to dig underground treasures, but now, they are mainly slaves of the dark elves, and many wandering dwarves have been captured as coolies, and only some dwarves still stick to the original city-state to resist the attack of the dark elves.
Psicoccus and Beholders are rivals and have been hunting each other since the beginning of their evolution, and neither the surface world nor the Grey Elves are helpless against them, no one knows where they evolved or their history, but everyone acknowledges that either of them can bring new disasters to Redstone if it weren't for the mutual restraint of the two sides, and that the Dark Elves and Grey Dwarves between them are just useless lower races in the eyes of both of them.
This qiē constitutes the history of the dark elves, and the current state of the dark elves.