Since the occupation of the Dragonlords was broken, King Aeoneth has ruled the Latari from Caelcira palace in the hidden city of Lithilin. King Aeoneth presides over the mightiest of the Elven nations and is the custodian of those Tears of Latariana left by the nations that were lost. At his side sits the controversial Maegan Cyndewin, a half-elven sorceress and the remaining soul with a rightful claim to the Shadow Tear, the Ynfetaar. Aeoneth has a strong reputation as a benevolent and well-loved ruler.
Amongst the charred cinders of the Lithelin Gate after the Third Darkness, Aeoneth had taken up his dead brother Aanir's crown. He set to work rallying an ancient and tired people driven to the brink of total destruction by the very creatures the First had named their wardens.
Though their kingdom and capital had been scorched, the Latari had not been razed, and King Aeoneth proved to be as wise and capable as his brother. Slowly and methodically he restored the Aymhelin, healing the wounds that Dragonlord Baalesh had wrought on his forest and his people. He tried to heal the rifts that had divided the Eolam and the Verdelam Elves, renewing their bonds as fellow members of the Latari Tribe. The Leonx Riders, once considered savages by their city-dwelling kin, earned names for themselves as couriers of important messages and hunters of any remaining dragon hybrids beneath the boughs of the Aymhelin.
In the early years of the 1600s, Aeoneth finally judged that it was time for his people to take interest in the outside world once more. At the urging of the sorcerer Maegan Cyndewin, he dispatched scouts into the lands of Terrinoth and beyond to see what had become of the other races.
Prince Faolan, protector of the northern borders and son of the late King Aanir, opposed this move vehemently. Nevertheless, the scouts rode forth to find the lands slowly rebuilding themselves. The scouts also established ties with those Elves who had emigrated to the Free Cities so long ago, and some even chose to settle with their cousins rather than return to the Aymhelin. Much of the Elves’ involvement (or as some might say, “interference”) in foreign affairs can be traced to this point in history.
Now, unnamed things stir once more at the borders of the Aymhelin. King Aeoneth has not forgotten the occupation of the Dragonlords and the shame of their exile from the Empyrean drives the Latari to oppose the Ynfernael in all things, and so the armies of the Latari Elves ride forth again. They will oppose the growing darkness, and in so doing expunge some portion of the shame of their fall, and perhaps prove themselves worthy to return to the Empyrean.
References
- Rune Age
- Realms of Terrinoth