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Years before Lord Whitestone became monarch of his city, there was a story about two beings, a dwarf and an elf. Text recently discovered by a dwarf named Grogan in a book from a Portland Library tell the story of this ancient rivalry between the dwarven race and elves.

 

Long ago, in present-day Myandar, elves and dwarves lived in peace and harmony, they were friends, and some even married the other race. One elf that lived during the time was named Eltor. Eltor was an elven merchant, making leather armor, and selling it to the elven tribesmen and the elven professional military. Such a success was Eltor's business that other elves making armor left their shops and moved to various places, such as Irilion, present-day Tirnwood Vale, Tirnym, and Naralik. These elves knew their business was well more than ruined. At that same time, a dwarven blacksmith named Denton was making metal armors, made of ancient metals that have been retrieved, and scientists are stuying. These metals were obviously stronger than the elven leather, and humans hadn't been seen on Seridia yet. The gnomes and draegoni kept their technology to their own races, and orchans didn't wear armor at the time. Thus, dwarves could make much money selling their metal products, to all races, including elves. When the Elven Grand Council approved a contract with Denton's metalsmithing company, Denton and sons, the elven leather armorers no longer made money selling to the military. Eltor was a furious, short-tempered elf who went to Nordcarn, Denton's home city, and got into a verbal fight with him. Then, Eltor challenged the rich dwarf to a duel, at sundown in the Nordcarn city center, once a very active and busling place. Thousands gathered to watch the duel between the wealthy merchants. Eltor carried his simple iron sword and his own special leather armor, reinforced with iron. (Eltor is considered the father of augmented leather armor) Denton carried in an iron helmet, plate, and shield, and a steel long sword. The two dueled for 3 days, taking breaks every 6 hours. None were able to hit the other until, Denton pierced Eltor's leather armor. Eltor survived, but surrendered. All elven members of the audience from then on hated the dwarves, and wars even started. (but that's the next story :angry: ) Eventually, after one week of being cured by the healing elves, Eltor went missing. Nobody knew what happened to him, but some claim he hung himself, others say the dwarves forced him to work to death in their mines.

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Hi there, well sounds like you have some good ideas for writing stories. However you should try to write something that won't have any impact on historical facts such as "elves and dawrves lived in peace and harmony"..who says they did or didn't? And humans were always on Seridia. These kind of these are best left to the main developers to decide.

 

Also separate your paragraphs so they are easier to read :blink:

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i agree with Roja about having some good ideas, but i also agree when she says that you should keep the history thing and all that

 

a bit more depth and maybe a little longer of a story would be nice, explain things better

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