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Locations/Elven Protectorate/Overview.txt

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+	The Elven Protectorate encompasses the entirety of the Civil 
+Wood, and most of the Dragonspine Mountains. While not officially 
+claiming to be a sovereign nation – as the Gnomes have done – the elves 
+who occupy this region consider themselves, for the most part, separate 
+from Braddock's corrupt kingdom and its Church. Representatives from 
+the Protectorate often travel to throne to protest its latest 
+proceedings in their area of influence. The elves also, unlike the 
+Gnomes, are quite picky about who they allow into the Civil Wood, 
+though elves are quite commonly found outside the Civil Wood amongst 
+the rest of the world. To date, a demihuman army has yet to march 
+through the Civil Wood towards the Dragonspine, and this is a source of 
+some consternation between the elves and the king. However, thus far 
+the elves have been quite capable of taking care of the territory that 
+they are holding on to.
+
+	The people of the Elven Protectorate are, naturally, almost
+entirely elven. A few gnomes and the occasional human exist in the
+protectorate, but they are by far the exception. Of the elves in
+the Protectorate, only about 5% are high elves; the remainder are
+Sylvan or Kagonesti wild elves. 
+
+        The Elven Protectorate as a whole is an ancient forest and 
+mountain range, and it is said that the Gods wove powerful magics 
+into them when the Elves took up residence, to give the Elves time 
+to replenish their fading race. Anyone entering the Protectorate
+- and this does mean ANYBODY - who is not at least half elven will
+be presented with an ever-changing forest and a set of illusions
+that will serve to guide them quickly back out the way they came.
+Only unarmed messengers and those specifically invited by the 
+Elven Council can enter unhindered and proceed to the various
+elven Cities and Tribal Lands.

Locations/Elven Protectorate/Wellhollow.txt

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+1. Overview
+-----------
+
+	Wellhollow is the city of the Elves deep within the Civil 
+Wood in the Elven Protectorate. It is nestled in a hollow at the
+feet of the Dragonspine mountains, where it is the most safe from
+all intruders. 
+        The city is built in the most ancient portion of one of
+the oldest forests in the world, the Civil Wood. The forest is
+just as full of Treants and Fey creatures as it is of elves and
+normal plants, making it the perfect place for the Elves to 
+rebuild their line.
+        The city is built as a series of platforms and treehouses
+built in and amongst the trees. Whenever possible, natural
+formation are used to create the desired effect, as the elves
+are loathe to cut down the trees. So far this has worked out well.
+
+2. People
+---------
+
+	The people of the city are comprised of mostly high elves,
+but some of the higher ranking members of the tribal elves make
+homes here as well, in order to represent their people on the council.
+The total population of the city, however, represents the shocking 
+devastation that the elvish race endured during the time of the
+Alliance; the total population of the city is only 500, more than half
+of which are newborn or otherwise too young to fight, and of which
+fifty are in their extreme elderly stages and are too old to fight.
+In the city of Wellhollow, there are only 150 people of age and
+physical condition to fight - both men and women.
+        When the city was settled just 275 years ago, there were 
+only two of the ancient High Elven houses left intact enough
+(e.g. enough of them left alive) to create any sort of government.
+Now, there are three, and a fourth is on the rise once more. However
+the application of the terms "great house" and "noble line" are 
+fairly superfluous; most of the houses are barely 50 or 100
+strong at the absolute most. The distinction of "Tribe" has become
+far more important in these times.
+
+3. Notable Persons
+------------------
+
+4. Notable Locations
+--------------------
+
+	4.1 The Well of the World
+	-------------------------
+
+		The Well of the World is here in Wellhollow (one of
+	the reasons it got its name.) The Well is actually a pool
+	of water inside of a pool of stones, which holds various
+	magical properties - among them the ability to prolong
+	natural life, cure many diseases, and even act as a 
+	sort of gate between time and worlds. It is the duty
+	of the Elves to protect it and keep it safe; they consider
+	it a gift from their gods, to assist in their rebirth after
+	their exit from slavery.
+
+	4.2 The Grandfather Tree
+	------------------------
+
+		The Grandfather tree is the single oldest tree in
+	the Western Kingdom. Standing at the center of Wellhollow,
+	the Grandfather Tree measures a full 700 feet in circumf-
+	erence, measuring 30 feet across at its base. The tree is
+	of an unknown species, but is estimated to be a variety of
+	Redwood. All educated estimates place the tree at over
+	five thousand years old, since before the time of the 
+	alliance. The Grandfather tree, it is said, speaks to those
+	of pure heart, purpose, and blood; that it is a living
+	historical record that can be asked questions. That its roots
+	run deep and wide, touching every corner of the earth.
+
+5. Government and Politics
+--------------------------
+
+	The Council at Wellhollow is both the government of the city
+and of the Elven Protectorate as a whole. The council consists of
+one member from each of the Noble Houses and one from each of the
+Wild Tribes; it was this model from which the Gnomes took their system
+of government in Breech. 
+        The government is, at its core, both communist and socialist.
+The community of elves in the Elven Protectorate is so small that it
+cannot afford the beurocracies enjoyed by the massive Human kingdom,
+or the quickly reproducing Gnomish nation. So the government -
+consisting of the head of each small family and tribe in the 
+protectorate - decides the best course of action for the species to
+take as a whole. Goods are produced on a communal basis and distributed
+according to the need of the individual tribes and families. The
+very concept of property ownership as most human and gnomish cultures
+know it is simply foreign, if not downright taboo, in elven society.
+
+6. Economy
+----------
+
+	Being a communist and socialist society, there is no
+real economy to speak of inside of the Elven Protectorate. When dealing
+with the outside world, however, the elves generally prefer to operate
+in a barter system, trading in fine wood products, medicines, art,
+literature, histories, and other such rare items. The elves also
+pan gold from the rivers that flow through the Civil Wood and the
+Dragonspine, and use this to trade for various raw materials,
+but they do not use it as a currency inside of the country.
+        The basic idea in the Elven Protectorate is that money and
+vanity are the root of all evils; while the elves are still 
+struggling with their vanity, they are doing very well about
+the money, having refused to adopt - or honor - any system inside
+the Protectorate based on the idea of money.
+
+7. Notable Non-Government Bodies
+--------------------------------
+