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Cultures

The Teled Elves have over the millennia divided into Cultures much like the Ailor have, with customs and traditions that transcend nationhood. While once most if not all resided within the (old) Allorn Empire, these Cultures express different ways to play a traditional Elf. Below are depicted various Cultures of Teled, hover your cursor over the text to read more about them. You should choose one dominant culture for your Character.

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  Neo-Allorn - Imperialist Elves
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  Amontaar - Diplomatic Elves
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  Finul - Maritime Elves
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  Bel Hammon - Scholar Elves
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  Minoor - Communal Elves
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  Solvaan - Warden Elves
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  Llasada - Cutthroat Elves
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  Pelyon - Knightly Elves
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  Presenna - Priestly Elves
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  Lanlath - Avenger Elves

Expanded Lore

Teled Cities

This section showcases the geography of the new Allorn Empire (Val Allornavaal), and various other Elf-inhabited States. This section will also give a very brief oversight of the Teled-Elven states, and what they are in relation to each other, but for more detail, the Geography pages should be consulted.

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• Val Allornavaal: is the new Allorn Empire, including its direct subject states of Selv'ird, Irdaal, Sonolas, and the other lesser important provinces. The Allorn Empire is an imperialist state that constantly chafes with all its neighbors as it tries to reclaim lost lands that it still claims as rightfully theirs. The Neo-Allorn Teled work to restore this Empire to greatness, or at least give it back its rightful lands and then isolate it from the wider world, thus preventing conflict with the Regalian Empire.
• Amontaar is the homeland of the Amontaar Teled, and a wide mixture of Teled Cultures due to its habit of being the nexus of west-to-east diplomacy. When any diplomacy happens between Regalia and the Allorn Empire, it happens in "neutral" Amontaar. Amontaar is far from neutral, as it is chiefly inspired to ensure its own independence, by playing Empires against each other and then benefiting from the chaos this inspires. Amontaar is also an immensely wealthy city, controlling the only trade entry in and out of the Allorn Empire, the only safe naval passage into the Allorn Empire, and lucrative ware transit between the various Elven realms and the Regalian Empire.
• Bel Faiaal: is the homeland of the Finul, once part of the Allorn Empire, but now fiercely independent. The Finul manage to maintain their independence by tacitly allying with the Allorn Empire, their vast navies are used in the wars against the Kathar and Suvial Elves, but the Allorn Empire lacks formal fleets, so the Finul can demand their independence in exchange for the service of their fleets. Bel Faiaal is one of the few places still open to foreign visitors where one can taste the Allorn Empire's presence, without being inside it, though one should never confuse the Prince of Bel Faiaal as Pro-Allorn, he is primarily pro-Bel Faiaal.
• Osc'Ird: is a proud homeland of the Osc'ird Kathar, that nonetheless has been a relentless battlefield and graveyard between Empires. While Orc'ird has some Teled inhabitants, it is mostly inhabited by Kathar who did agree to join the Allorn Empire, but are now repeatedly being invaded by the Suvial and Kathar as the frontline of their fight against the Allorn Empire's resurgence.
• Bel Sin Silaan & Bel Hammon: Both Bel Sin Silaan and Bel Hammon are nations founded by their respective Archmages, Sin Silaan and Hammon. Both nations have vast magical shields that make crossing into them from the ground impossible, and strong magical defenses that make approach from the sky highly unlikely. The world at large can only speculate what vile magics and experimentation occurs within, with Bel Hammon Teled routinely abducting people from outside their hermit kingdom and taking them inside, only for them to never return.
• Minoor Leria: Minoor Leria is the homeland of the Minoor, once settlers of a relatively infertile rainforest. When Cataclysm created the Sundered Lands which they are part of, the climates shifted and fertility improved, allowing the Minoor to establish a communal agrarian paradise that rejected Empires. Their independence is purely a byproduct of the Llasada thinking they have nothing of value, and the independence of Bel Hammon and Bel Sin Silaan ensures that the Allorn Empire does not (yet) come knocking to absorb them back and re-introduce the concept of taxation.
• Llasada: Llasada is a pirate haven for the Llasada Teled and the land-based homeland of worship of the Deep Ones. There are no formal cities, only coastal enclaves filled with vast statues of the dark horrors of the deep oceans and the ocean Gods.
• Callamar & Unified Vasaal Cities: Callamar and the Vasaal Cities are wealthy places somewhat aligned with Amontaar, and bartering their political credit to Amontaar in favor of Amontaar ensuring their independence. These lands are mostly inhabited by a mixture of Amontaar and Neo-Allorn inhabitants, and it remains up for debate whether Amontaar actually helps them remain independent, or whether the Selvath Elves are actually responsible.
• Presenna: Presenna is the heartland of Estelley worship, all the greatest temples and ecclesiastic colleges and academies are based in Presenna. Nearly every Estelley priest has training either acquired directly from Presenna or from a religious mentor who came directly from Presenna. Without Presenna, there is no organized Estelley Religion, yet the somewhat democratic nation is constantly under attack from all neighbors, Bel Hammon experiments, Llasada Pirates, Asha Corsairs, and Regalian Imperialists. The Presenna are largely defenseless, drawing the attention of the Lanlath, Pelyon, and Solvaan Teled to protect them.
• Val Methen & Bel Teledd: Are Teled microstates with varying populations that have entirely surrendered their politics to Amontaar. These nations might as well be subjects of Amontaar in all but name, though they fancy themselves as glorious nations and the true inheritors of the eastern kingdoms of the old Allorn Empire, even if they barely control a fifth of its original landmass.
• Aioránia: Aioránia is a post-colonial confederation of city-states that are part of the Regalian Empire, but have a great deal of autonomy, and are also resilient to rule from Regalia. Aioránia has a very large Teled population of varying cultures, because it was once part of the Allorn Empire before the Ailor population invaded and colonized it.
• Perrionne: Perionne is a fragmented ducal land that is under direct rule from Regalia, but has a great deal of local autonomy as the dukes continue to wage petty wars with one another and send their mercenary armies to bloody the fields of lavender. Perrionne is a typical feudal Elven society where the Elves have largely adopted Ailor cultural practices, but where the sizeable Pelyon Teled population keeps some traditions alive.
• Grand Couronne d'Ithanie: is one of the strongest states in the Elven hemisphere, a successor state to a strong northern Allorn kingdom called Ithicalon, which during the collapse of the Allorn Empire had its princes come together, and choose a different path than destruction. While other ex-Allorn kingdoms and princedoms perished in the chaos, the Ithicalon Teled princes started cooperating with their minorities. They even acknowledged them as majorities in government (the Ailor in particular), which quickly stabilized the realm, though made it dominated by Ailor politics. The Queendom of Ithania as it came to be known, would eventually be conquered by the Regalian Empire in a bloodless war, though the very large Teled population of varying cultures continues to comprise a large part of its politics, and continue Estelley worship in a Unionist Queendom.
• Solacil is one of the few Regalian subject states with a mostly Teled population, mixed with Neo-Allorn and Finul people. Solacil is both a wine country of peace, where wealthy Regalian nobles go to vacation, and a political hotbed for so-called "Allorn Realism", a Neo-Allorn philosophy that dictates that the Regalian Empire and the Allorn Empire need not be enemies and that they have much in common, but that they must first resolve the "Aioránia Question". The Allorn Empire claims this land, but Regalian also claims it as their own. Allorn Realists believe that the Allorn Empire and Regalia have an equal right to exist, but that conflict should be averted by handing Aioránia to the Allorn Empire, and force-move the whole population to the Silerian chain or Lusits. This is obviously a controversial stance, but it shows that it is possible to be Neo-Allorn, and still be vaguely pro-Regalia. Most Neo-Allorn Teled who reside in Regalia, in fact, subscribe to this belief, and are not so much anti-Regalia, as much as they are anti-Tierravera Ailor.