Introduction: 18 000 years ago, an elven fleet of war galley fled their continent from a threath lost in history. They came to a new continent surrounded by a ring of coral reefs and whirlpools. Losing more than half of their ships they settled in a small creek, unable to get back through the reefs. The elven conquistador led by their king Gastroenteriel, they went exploring the volcanic island. They founded at the confluent of two rivers, a cove of gigantic trees inhabited by peaceful orcs. Using their tactical and military advantages, the elves exterminated the orcs pushing the survivor into the vocanic mountain range of dragonwall. They settled in the gigantic trees and built a city in the branches, naming it Neyicitte new capital of the elven kingdom.
The elven civilization prospered until 500 years ago when the orcs from the volcanic mountains came back to exact revenge upon the elves. They burned and pillaged everything form the mountains to the door of the elven capital of Neyicitte.
The elven kingdom almost fell, but an alliance with the humans from the steppes and dwarves from the hills came to their rescue in exchange of magic teachings. Their contribution was pale in comparison of the archmage Faxanadu who weaved a necromantic mythal which animated the dead elven soldiers and mages against the orcs. The archmage infused enchantments after enchantments, strenghtening the mythal until it was quasi alive. Protected inside the capital, no orcs could enter and a wave of vengeful undead washed over the orc hordes driving them back into the dragonwallmountain. The last battle took place at the feet of the dragonwall beyond Shaengrene; the lava river. The battlefield expanding from the river to the mountain id tho this day known as the great devastation of the plain of fuldead because of the millions of cadavers piled onto the barred land.
To thank the dead for saving them, Faxanadu allowed them to stay in the cliff flanking the noble quarter in Neyicitte. to this day the elven civilization is built around the veneration of their deathless ancestor and necromantic magic.
From this day the elven kingdom lives under the oppression of Faxanadu the necromancer who lives in his floating darkstar tower. Nobody as seen him since 300 years. The king is a puppet and the real power is behind two council, The 13 masked archmages with their secret police: the crimson knights and the undying court of the deathless. Nobles are vain and only seek power and wealth. The twelve dragonmarked houses are supposed to look after the protection of the kingdom, but they are mostly composed of petty nobles. Since the mythal protects them from the ocs, people in Neyicitte are almost cut off from the rest of the kingdom, leaving the rest to themselves.
In the darkness there is hope, the thirteen dragonmarked house has come back. House Corbonazis take the protection of the kingdom very seriously after witnessing orcs crossing the shaengrene river in whole platoons without opposition. Their leader Fellanwe Khoradris d'Corbonazis is a direct descendant of Gastroenteriel and while adventuring, gathers fund and support to create a army to oppose the orc hordes.
You are new recruits of this army. Training under excellent warriors, all elves, humans and dwarves are equals and nobles loose their ranks. The pay is good and you get the chance of kicking some green butt along the way. After training in the Cobonazis hospital and fighter academy, you're sent along with 300 fellow as reinforcement for the front. You are all under the orders of the centaur captain Eronafieldur. Divided in smaller company, you end up under the irregular of Blake ir'Celovalis. Your company serve as scouts, shock troops or special ops. You get the respect of the other soldiers as you likely saved their life more than once. You often get special favors from them or their officers even tough nobody is very fond of your leader. Recently the orcs have invaded more than a third of the elven provinces. In reaction, most nobles and merchants took every possession and headed for Neyicitte leaving only the poor and delusional behind. Your first mission is to get to the city of Silvriel to meet with a company of priest of Corellon who united peasants and stragglers into a improvised militia.