Location: Ancient Elvish City

Rumors

  • A hidden elvish city lies somewhere beyond Green Elf Forest.
  • The forest elves nearby do not simply dwell there — they guard something deeper.
  • During festival times, danger has found its way even into the city.
  • Some of the city’s oldest monuments warn against trusting outsiders with magic.

What is Known

  • Ancient Elvish City is a hidden high elf city.
  • The high elves here are also sun elves.
  • Green Elf Forest lies nearby and serves as a protective outer region so the city is not easily found.
  • At one point during a festival, a red dragon wyrmling caused trouble in the city.
  • During elvish dancing, hooded figures attacked.
  • Those attackers were drow led by priestesses and were hunting sun elves.
  • A young sun elf girl named Griset was involved in the attack.
  • A drow named Zrumlock guarded or protected a grate connected to her.
  • The city contains a statue showing elves giving a man a floating island blue gem, with a mythalar at its center.
  • That statue serves as a cautionary tale about trusting outsiders, because men later abused magic and Netheril ruined it.
  • Silver Down is a magical mithral longsword associated with the city’s history.

History

  • Ancient Elvish City is tied to the lost memory of the Golden Age.
  • Grimace the Wise, who lived during the Golden Age, wielded Silver Down during the war of that time.
  • The city preserves old lessons about the handing of magic from elves to men and the eventual corruption of that trust.
  • Though much about the Golden Age has been lost to time, the city still appears to remember fragments through its monuments, relics, and lineages.

People

Salon

  • Leader of the sun elves

Galos

  • King of the sun elves
  • Fragile-looking man
  • Appears around 40 years old
  • Has white streaks in his hair

Quinnelith

  • Scout
  • Sun elf

Griset

  • Young sun elf girl

Zrumlock

  • Drow
  • Protected or guarded the grate connected to Griset
  • Saved the girl

Grimace the Wise

  • Long dead
  • Lived during the Golden Age
  • Wielded Silver Down during the war of that age

Loose Threads

  • What is the true name of the Ancient Elvish City?
  • What exactly happened during the Golden Age?
  • Why were the drow priestesses hunting sun elves here?
  • What was the grate connected to Griset protecting or concealing?
  • What more does the city remember about Netheril and the corruption of magic?
  • Where is Silver Down now?

Ancient Elvish City (DM)