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Ancient Races: High Elven Empire

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This mod adds the High Elven Empire, an ancient, powerful, and optionally playable civilization that can send caravans, sieges, and visitors to your fortress.



Powerful ranged attack magic that allows the high elves to attack their enemies from a safe distance, and even turns unarmed elves into potent warriors.

Has access to a variety of spells, with each high elf getting one randomly granted at birth.

Can tame most animals including exotic animals and good animals, bring them at embark, and find them in high elven caravans.

At peace with nature, so most wildlife will not be hostile, but can still chop trees and use wood products, as these high elves lack the strange moral sensibilities of their more primitive elven brethren.

Unique projectile graphic for the attack magic.



Long ago in our world, there existed three mighty realms: the High Elven Empire with their mastery over magic, the Dwarves of the Deep with their great physical prowess, and The Midnight Aristocracy with their ruling class of vampires, human chaff, and potent summoning spells.

For as long as anyone can remember, these three races have always been at war with each other in what is now known as the War in Heaven.

With their advanced technology and powerful magic, they fought in countless bloody battles against each other in what would seem to be an endless conflict. Eventually, they grew desperate to break the stalemate and forged costly pacts with the gods that unleashed angelic divine beings with terrifying power upon the world, which would later become their biggest mistake.

While loyal at first, for some mysterious reason, the divine beings eventually turned against their masters, directly leading to their downfall. Forced to fight on multiple fronts, with angelic beasts rampaging through their cities, and besieged by enemy armies on all sides, the three empires grew more and more desperate.

By unleashing group attack magic capable of mass destruction, massive mechanical war machines, and berserk divine beings, the War in Heaven turned vast swathes of land into uninhabitable wastelands for centuries, forcing the last of the ancients to abandon their realms and retreat into hiding.



Despite their best efforts, the High Elven Empire was unable to win the war. And as the final battle approached, the high elves knew their defeat was inevitable. In a last ditch effort to save themselves, the remaining elves retreated into the savage forests, hoping to find refuge and rebuild their civilization.

But the forests were not as safe as they had hoped. They found themselves faced with terrifying beasts of nature, giant and mutated creatures they had never seen before, who were hostile to their presence. The high elves, who had always lived in the cities, had no skills to survive in the wild. They had to learn fast, how to forage, how to build forest retreats, and how to defend themselves against the wild beasts.

As they struggled to survive in the forests, the elves began to realize that they were not the only intelligent beings on the planet. They discovered that the beasts they were fighting were intelligent as well, and they began to communicate with them. Over time, they learned to coexist with these creatures, who they had once feared. They even managed to tame some of the beasts and trained them to be their allies in the wild.

The elves may not have had the superior technology or physical strength of the dwarves, or the mastery over life and death of the humans, but they had potent attack magic which varied in destructive power and effect, which let the elves fight their foes from a distance.

A long time has passed since the fall of the High Elven Empire, but driven by the awakening of their ancient enemies, the war drums sound and a great council has been convened, to gather all elf-kind to unite against the coming threat. It is time for the elves to leave the forests and reclaim the world once more, as its rightful rulers.

A new era is about to begin.



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