PREMISE: The Quest to recover the Crown of the Elf-King

FIRST PERIOD: The Prophesy

Event: Half elf necromancer Kamuun-Taa is condemned by the emperor of the island realm of Pagatalynx to eternal imprisonment in the catacombs under Mount Siptorath. Before he is taken away, he works potent magics upon a miniature brass bell, and has it smuggled to the continent by one of his minions. Kamuun-Taa is never heard from again. The bell, alleged to be a weapon of obscene power, become known as The Voice of Kamuun-Taa.

Event: The Crown of the Elf-King is forged. the mystic ruby The Soul of Sh'nn T'arth is set as the centerpiece of the crown. The Soul is a gift to the Elf-King from the king of the Centaurs, meant to seal their alliance and represent the eternal friendship between Centaurs and Elves.

Event: Yoen D'Kari, the Elf-King's court seer, predicts a war with the Centaurs. The only person he tells of this is Taesa, the king's advisor, who keeps the information to herself in the hopes of keeping it from coming true.

Event: Taesa is killed when she saves the king from an assassination attempt. In a tragic - but likely inevitable - twist of fate, this assassination plot is carried out by a band of Centaurs who are part of an extremist group who seek war with the elves rather than friendship. Naturally, when the assassination team's leader Kor Ruus is captured, he pretends to tell the Elves everything but in fact gives them nothing but lies designed to make the Elves think that Centaurs are secretly pulling the wool over their eyes.

Event: Convinced that the Crown is cursed, the Elf-King delivers it to the Gnomes and asks them to use their magic to conceal it from the elves for all time.

Event: Before the Gnome-King Atticus Oldblood can complete the spell that will hide away the crown, his castle is besieged by the criminal cartel of Kullen Greedygut. The cartel is fought off and none of the royal family are harmed, but they manage to escape with several of the gnome's treasures, including the crown. Kullen takes the crown for himself, but sells The Soul of Sh'nn T'arth to Mordecai the Wandering Wizard.

Event: Centaur General Kar Varus, eager to earn glory in war, convinces the Centaur King that the Elf-King's rejection of the crown is a grave insult against his honor. The King is reluctant to declare war, but gives Kar Varus permission to launch a raid against an Elvish outpost as "appropriate punishment" for the insult.

Event: Kullen Greedygut, taking up wearing the Crown of the Elf-King and insisting on being referred to as King of Thieves, embarks on a series of bolder and bolder raids, cumulating in an ill-advised attempt to steal the horde of the Dragon Queen. The sole survivor of the raid, claiming the Dragon Queen allowed him to live to tell his tale as a warning to others. speaks of witnessing Kullen, still wearing the crown and boasting of his prowess, being incinerated in the depths of the Dragon's lair.

PERIOD: The Death of the Elf-King

EVENT: A regiment of Centaur soldiers, led by General Kar Varus, launches a surprise attack at the Elvish outpost at Wodin's Ford. The Elvish archers fight valiantly and inflict nearly 50% casualties on the Centuars, but in the end they are forced to surrender. His pride hurt because of the high losses, Kar Varus orders the Elvish prisoners executed.

Event: Elvish Crown Prince Saitu-Vass, felled by a glancing sling stone during the assault on Wodin's Ford and taken for dead, awakens among the piled corpses of his comrades. Hacking his way past a pair of inattentive Centaur sentries, he flees into the wilderness, were he eventually encounters a band of savage forest wildmen. Impressed with the prince's bravery and woodcraft, as well as being traditional enemies of the Centaurs, The Wildmen induct Saitu-Vass as one of their own.

EVENT: As tensions escalate after the battle at Wodin's Ford, court seer Yoen D'Kari predicts that only recovery of both the Crown and the The Soul of Sh'nn T'arth by the Elves can bring the impending war to an end. No one is sure if this mean that full-scale war can be avoided or that this would ensure an Elvish victory.

EVENT: The Elf-King orders an attack on the Centaur-controlled silver mine at Morton Mountain, as a response to the attack at Wodin's Ford. To encourage his people and convince them of the justice of the Elf cause, he opts to lead the attack himself.

EVENT: On the verge of victory at Morton Mountain, the elves are dealt a disastrous blow when the Elf-King is thrown from his horse and killed while leading his personal retinue in a bold charge against the centaur's vanguard.

Event: With the Elf-King dead, the only immediate heir is his great, great grand-nephew, Prince Leto Kekatsu, an impulsive, short-tempered youth hoping to make his mark on history. The reign of the nine-hundredth and fifty-fourth Elf-King is off to a rocky start when during his coronation, the archbishop suffers a seizure and the ceremony is postponed.

PERIOD: The Siege of the Dragon's Nest

Event: Looking to recover the crown, the Elf-King sends an elite team of trusted soldiers to the crowns last reported location. This location is the nest of X'zalliavasha, Queen of the Dragons.

Event: Unbeknownst to the soldiers, a centaur spy tracks their movements out of Tallwood and reports where the army is headed to General Kar Varus. As the elvish soldiers begin planning their siege of the nest, they are set upon by centaur troops, who slaughter them all with little casualties. Only Captain Ellor, leader of the elvish soldiers, is able to escape back to Tallwood and tell the Elf-King of what's happened, while the General prepares to take the Dragon Queen's hoard himself.

Event: Encouraged by their victory, the General Kar Varus attempts to take the Dragons nest despite the words of his advisors. Even so, the General mounts an attack that is surprisingly successful at first before X'zalliavasha, Queen of the Dragons, rallies what allies she has in the immediate area to launch a counter-attack against the Centaurs. The Centaurs are subsequently forced into retreat.

Event: Victorious but injured, X'zalliavasha, Queen of the Dragons is forced into retreat before reinforcements can be sent to finish her off. Her most loyal and nearby followers gather up her hoard - including the Crown of the Elf-King - and relocate it to several other locations for intended safe-keeping.

Event: Breowynn, middle daughter of a farming family in the rustic Willowfall region, shelters an injured woman in the family barn. Unknown to her, the woman is really X'zalliavasha Queen of the Dragons, disguised in human form and fleeing after being attacked and injured by centaur General Kar Varus. X'zalliavasha swears an oath of gratitude and bestows the Voice of Kamuun-Taa on Breowynn.

PERIOD: Declarations of WAR

EVENT:This final incident is enough to end the tip-toeing around the issue and push the conflict over the edge: the Centaurs and Elves finally issue official declarations of war. Battle lines are quickly drawn as other regional powers weigh their options, and the matter quickly threatens to erupt into an even larger, full-scale conflict.

Event: Elvish Crown Prince Saitu-Vass, by this time having nearly healed, receives word about the Centaur-Elf War. He recognizes that he must return to his people at once, and is accompanied by a handful of savage wild forestmen.

Event: Word reaches Elf-King Leto Kekatsu that Crown Prince Saitu-Vass is still alive and on his way to take his rightful place as Elf-King. Not interested in so easily giving up his seat of power, Leto Kekatsu immediately begins plotting how to finish off Saitu-Vass for good.

Event: While the Royal Army prepares itself to take back Wordin's Fort, the new royal advisor Banto B'Reck discretely hires a band of gnomish mercenaries called the Heavy Hammers to dispose of Saitu-Vass before he reaches Tallwood.

PERIOD: The Flight of the Ancient Castle

Event: The Heavy Hammers prepare an ambush for Saitu-Vass and his allies just outside of Tallwood.

Event: Eager to turn the tide of the war, the Elf-King sends a discrete team of soldiers and archaeologists to a part of Tallwood thought inaccessible due to ivy overgrowth and old magicks. He hopes to harness these magicks by uncovering their source: the Ancient Castle, whose true elvish name was lost to time long ago.

EVENT: The elf unit reaches the Ancient Castle, but are attacked by a large scorpion when they attempt to enter. The scorpion is killed, but only after three of the 12 elves have been killed.

Event: The surviving elves begin searching the Castle, but are shocked when the Castle suddenly shakes itself free of its foundation and actually begins to rise into the sky.

Event: Having Saitu-Vass and his allies on the ropes and about to finish them off, the Heavy Hammers loose their edge when they are surprised by the sudden rise of the Ancient Castle, giving the Elf prince's band the opportunity they need to turn the tables on the Heavy Hammers. Once the Heavy Hammers have been forced into retreat, Saitu-Vass and his allies regroup and take a moment to recover before following after the flying Ancient Castle.

Event: Mastering their fear at being hurtled into the sky, the Elves quickly locate the castle's inner sanctum. There they find the hideous engine driving the ancient castle; an abysmal amalgam of clockwork mechanisms and throbbing organ-like growths. The foul construct seems to draw it's power from a ring of captives, girls of varying species, manacled to it's base. In a platform suspended above the blasphemous engine, Mordecai the Wandering Wizard titters and capers like a lunatic. When the elves hastily free the captives, the castle begins to drift downward.

***Event: The elves do intense battle with various creatures summoned by Mordecai. In the end, the creatures are defeated. The four surviving elves pursue Mordecia to the top of the castle.

Event: Mordecai the Wandering Wizard, clutching The Soul of Sh'nn T'arth in one hand, screams in insane rage has he leaps from the Castle's highest parapet.

Event: The mere sight of a castle in the sky, one piloted by a race that has attempted to steal their hordes so many times, is enough to put fear into the Dragon Queen, something she's not comfortable with. X'zalliavasha, with her debt to Breowynn repaid, begins considering taking her horde and her children away from this accursed realm of warring nations and flying castles.

ENDING PERIOD: The final battle between the Centaurs and the Elves.

Event: Prince Saitu-Vass and his party stumble upon the corpse of Mordecai the Wandering Wizard, with The Soul of Sh'nn T'arth still clutched in his grip.

Event: The centaurs rejoice as their allies, The Stone Giants, appear and close on the Elf/Wildman force from the rear. Before the giants can come to grips with their foes, Breowynn hails them from a nearby hilltop and exhorts them to retreat. The Giants derisively refuse and Breowynn brandishes a tiny brass bell, offering them one last chance to retreat. The giants continue to advance and Breowynn sounds the bell, producing a massive wave of destruction that kills all but a few of the hindmost giants. The utter defeat of the Stone Giants turns the tide in favor of the elves and earns Breowynn the sobriquet Giantsbane.

EVENT: While the battle rages about them, Leto Kekatsu finds himself cornered by Saitu-Vass. "Your conduct as Elf-King has been most unseemly, cousin." Saitu-Vass explains "now you must pay."
Leto gives ground, stalling for time to summon his lackeys. "Must I pay, in full?" he stammers.

Saitu-Vass closes in, drawing his sword. "In full."

Event: The wedding of Breowynn Giantsbane to Prince Saitu-Vass, along with the Exodus of the Dragons, marks the end of War of the Crown and the beginning of the Age of The Golden Ones.

Char-vel's turn.

I think the only remaining major plot point is what has happened to the Crown of the Elf-King. It was last seen in the dragon-queen's horde. Is it present at the final battle and does it play a role in that battle?

PREMISE: The Quest to recover the Crown of the Elf-King

FIRST PERIOD: The Prophesy

Event: Half elf necromancer Kamuun-Taa is condemned by the emperor of the island realm of Pagatalynx to eternal imprisonment in the catacombs under Mount Siptorath. Before he is taken away, he works potent magics upon a miniature brass bell, and has it smuggled to the continent by one of his minions. Kamuun-Taa is never heard from again. The bell, alleged to be a weapon of obscene power, become known as The Voice of Kamuun-Taa.

Event: The Crown of the Elf-King is forged. the mystic ruby The Soul of Sh'nn T'arth is set as the centerpiece of the crown. The Soul is a gift to the Elf-King from the king of the Centaurs, meant to seal their alliance and represent the eternal friendship between Centaurs and Elves.

Event: Yoen D'Kari, the Elf-King's court seer, predicts a war with the Centaurs. The only person he tells of this is Taesa, the king's advisor, who keeps the information to herself in the hopes of keeping it from coming true.

Event: Taesa is killed when she saves the king from an assassination attempt. In a tragic - but likely inevitable - twist of fate, this assassination plot is carried out by a band of Centaurs who are part of an extremist group who seek war with the elves rather than friendship. Naturally, when the assassination team's leader Kor Ruus is captured, he pretends to tell the Elves everything but in fact gives them nothing but lies designed to make the Elves think that Centaurs are secretly pulling the wool over their eyes.

Event: Convinced that the Crown is cursed, the Elf-King delivers it to the Gnomes and asks them to use their magic to conceal it from the elves for all time.

Event: Before the Gnome-King Atticus Oldblood can complete the spell that will hide away the crown, his castle is besieged by the criminal cartel of Kullen Greedygut. The cartel is fought off and none of the royal family are harmed, but they manage to escape with several of the gnome's treasures, including the crown. Kullen takes the crown for himself, but sells The Soul of Sh'nn T'arth to Mordecai the Wandering Wizard.

Event: Centaur General Kar Varus, eager to earn glory in war, convinces the Centaur King that the Elf-King's rejection of the crown is a grave insult against his honor. The King is reluctant to declare war, but gives Kar Varus permission to launch a raid against an Elvish outpost as "appropriate punishment" for the insult.

Event: Kullen Greedygut, taking up wearing the Crown of the Elf-King and insisting on being referred to as King of Thieves, embarks on a series of bolder and bolder raids, cumulating in an ill-advised attempt to steal the horde of the Dragon Queen. The sole survivor of the raid, claiming the Dragon Queen allowed him to live to tell his tale as a warning to others. speaks of witnessing Kullen, still wearing the crown and boasting of his prowess, being incinerated in the depths of the Dragon's lair.

PERIOD: The Death of the Elf-King

EVENT: A regiment of Centaur soldiers, led by General Kar Varus, launches a surprise attack at the Elvish outpost at Wodin's Ford. The Elvish archers fight valiantly and inflict nearly 50% casualties on the Centuars, but in the end they are forced to surrender. His pride hurt because of the high losses, Kar Varus orders the Elvish prisoners executed.

Event: Elvish Crown Prince Saitu-Vass, felled by a glancing sling stone during the assault on Wodin's Ford and taken for dead, awakens among the piled corpses of his comrades. Hacking his way past a pair of inattentive Centaur sentries, he flees into the wilderness, were he eventually encounters a band of savage forest wildmen. Impressed with the prince's bravery and woodcraft, as well as being traditional enemies of the Centaurs, The Wildmen induct Saitu-Vass as one of their own.

EVENT: As tensions escalate after the battle at Wodin's Ford, court seer Yoen D'Kari predicts that only recovery of both the Crown and the The Soul of Sh'nn T'arth by the Elves can bring the impending war to an end. No one is sure if this mean that full-scale war can be avoided or that this would ensure an Elvish victory.

EVENT: The Elf-King orders an attack on the Centaur-controlled silver mine at Morton Mountain, as a response to the attack at Wodin's Ford. To encourage his people and convince them of the justice of the Elf cause, he opts to lead the attack himself.

EVENT: On the verge of victory at Morton Mountain, the elves are dealt a disastrous blow when the Elf-King is thrown from his horse and killed while leading his personal retinue in a bold charge against the centaur's vanguard.

Event: With the Elf-King dead, the only immediate heir is his great, great grand-nephew, Prince Leto Kekatsu, an impulsive, short-tempered youth hoping to make his mark on history. The reign of the nine-hundredth and fifty-fourth Elf-King is off to a rocky start when during his coronation, the archbishop suffers a seizure and the ceremony is postponed.

PERIOD: The Siege of the Dragon's Nest

Event: Looking to recover the crown, the Elf-King sends an elite team of trusted soldiers to the crowns last reported location. This location is the nest of X'zalliavasha, Queen of the Dragons.

Event: Unbeknownst to the soldiers, a centaur spy tracks their movements out of Tallwood and reports where the army is headed to General Kar Varus. As the elvish soldiers begin planning their siege of the nest, they are set upon by centaur troops, who slaughter them all with little casualties. Only Captain Ellor, leader of the elvish soldiers, is able to escape back to Tallwood and tell the Elf-King of what's happened, while the General prepares to take the Dragon Queen's hoard himself.

Event: Encouraged by their victory, the General Kar Varus attempts to take the Dragons nest despite the words of his advisors. Even so, the General mounts an attack that is surprisingly successful at first before X'zalliavasha, Queen of the Dragons, rallies what allies she has in the immediate area to launch a counter-attack against the Centaurs. The Centaurs are subsequently forced into retreat.

Event: Victorious but injured, X'zalliavasha, Queen of the Dragons is forced into retreat before reinforcements can be sent to finish her off. Her most loyal and nearby followers gather up her hoard - including the Crown of the Elf-King - and relocate it to several other locations for intended safe-keeping.

Event: Breowynn, middle daughter of a farming family in the rustic Willowfall region, shelters an injured woman in the family barn. Unknown to her, the woman is really X'zalliavasha Queen of the Dragons, disguised in human form and fleeing after being attacked and injured by centaur General Kar Varus. X'zalliavasha swears an oath of gratitude and bestows the Voice of Kamuun-Taa on Breowynn.

PERIOD: Declarations of WAR

EVENT:This final incident is enough to end the tip-toeing around the issue and push the conflict over the edge: the Centaurs and Elves finally issue official declarations of war. Battle lines are quickly drawn as other regional powers weigh their options, and the matter quickly threatens to erupt into an even larger, full-scale conflict.

Event: Elvish Crown Prince Saitu-Vass, by this time having nearly healed, receives word about the Centaur-Elf War. He recognizes that he must return to his people at once, and is accompanied by a handful of savage wild forestmen.

Event: Word reaches Elf-King Leto Kekatsu that Crown Prince Saitu-Vass is still alive and on his way to take his rightful place as Elf-King. Not interested in so easily giving up his seat of power, Leto Kekatsu immediately begins plotting how to finish off Saitu-Vass for good.

Event: While the Royal Army prepares itself to take back Wordin's Fort, the new royal advisor Banto B'Reck discretely hires a band of gnomish mercenaries called the Heavy Hammers to dispose of Saitu-Vass before he reaches Tallwood.

PERIOD: The Flight of the Ancient Castle

Event: The Heavy Hammers prepare an ambush for Saitu-Vass and his allies just outside of Tallwood.

Event: Eager to turn the tide of the war, the Elf-King sends a discrete team of soldiers and archaeologists to a part of Tallwood thought inaccessible due to ivy overgrowth and old magicks. He hopes to harness these magicks by uncovering their source: the Ancient Castle, whose true elvish name was lost to time long ago.

EVENT: The elf unit reaches the Ancient Castle, but are attacked by a large scorpion when they attempt to enter. The scorpion is killed, but only after three of the 12 elves have been killed.

Event: The surviving elves begin searching the Castle, but are shocked when the Castle suddenly shakes itself free of its foundation and actually begins to rise into the sky.

Event: Having Saitu-Vass and his allies on the ropes and about to finish them off, the Heavy Hammers loose their edge when they are surprised by the sudden rise of the Ancient Castle, giving the Elf prince's band the opportunity they need to turn the tables on the Heavy Hammers. Once the Heavy Hammers have been forced into retreat, Saitu-Vass and his allies regroup and take a moment to recover before following after the flying Ancient Castle.

Event: Mastering their fear at being hurtled into the sky, the Elves quickly locate the castle's inner sanctum. There they find the hideous engine driving the ancient castle; an abysmal amalgam of clockwork mechanisms and throbbing organ-like growths. The foul construct seems to draw it's power from a ring of captives, girls of varying species, manacled to it's base. In a platform suspended above the blasphemous engine, Mordecai the Wandering Wizard titters and capers like a lunatic. When the elves hastily free the captives, the castle begins to drift downward.

Event: The elves do intense battle with various creatures summoned by Mordecai. In the end, the creatures are defeated. The four surviving elves pursue Mordecia to the top of the castle.

Event: Mordecai the Wandering Wizard, clutching The Soul of Sh'nn T'arth in one hand, screams in insane rage has he leaps from the Castle's highest parapet.

Event: The mere sight of a castle in the sky, one piloted by a race that has attempted to steal their hordes so many times, is enough to put fear into the Dragon Queen, something she's not comfortable with. X'zalliavasha, with her debt to Breowynn repaid, begins considering taking her horde and her children away from this accursed realm of warring nations and flying castles.

ENDING PERIOD: The final battle between the Centaurs and the Elves.

Event: Prince Saitu-Vass and his party stumble upon the corpse of Mordecai the Wandering Wizard, with The Soul of Sh'nn T'arth still clutched in his grip.

Event: The centaurs rejoice as their allies, The Stone Giants, appear and close on the Elf/Wildman force from the rear. Before the giants can come to grips with their foes, Breowynn hails them from a nearby hilltop and exhorts them to retreat. The Giants derisively refuse and Breowynn brandishes a tiny brass bell, offering them one last chance to retreat. The giants continue to advance and Breowynn sounds the bell, producing a massive wave of destruction that kills all but a few of the hindmost giants. The utter defeat of the Stone Giants turns the tide in favor of the elves and earns Breowynn the sobriquet Giantsbane.

EVENT: While the battle rages about them, Leto Kekatsu finds himself cornered by Saitu-Vass. "Your conduct as Elf-King has been most unseemly, cousin." Saitu-Vass explains "now you must pay."
Leto gives ground, stalling for time to summon his lackeys. "Must I pay, in full?" he stammers.

Saitu-Vass closes in, drawing his sword. "In full."

***Event: Leto throws down his blade and flees before his cousin. Saitu-Vass pursues, but before he can catch the would-be Elf King, Leto blunders into the path of an enraged General Kar-Varus, who promptly runs him through with a lance.
The Centaur General wheels about and charges Saitu-Vass. The Elf-Prince stands his ground, and at the last moment leaps aside while hurling a Wildman's copper ax, splitting Kar-Varus' skull like a ripe melon.

Saitu-Vass, struggling to his feet, is confronted by a tall, dark woman in an grotesquely elaborate gown. He instinctively recognizes her as X'zalliavasha. "Well played, stripling." she purrs, and extends to him the much battered Crown of the Elf-King. "take your prize. May it bring you whatever fortune you deserve."

Event: The wedding of Breowynn Giantsbane to Prince Saitu-Vass, along with the Exodus of the Dragons, marks the end of War of the Crown and the beginning of the Age of The Golden Ones.

I think we may be done, but its St. Dumas' turn if he has anything he'd like to add.

PREMISE: The Quest to recover the Crown of the Elf-King

FIRST PERIOD: The Prophesy

Event: Half elf necromancer Kamuun-Taa is condemned by the emperor of the island realm of Pagatalynx to eternal imprisonment in the catacombs under Mount Siptorath. Before he is taken away, he works potent magics upon a miniature brass bell, and has it smuggled to the continent by one of his minions. Kamuun-Taa is never heard from again. The bell, alleged to be a weapon of obscene power, become known as The Voice of Kamuun-Taa.

Event: The Crown of the Elf-King is forged. the mystic ruby The Soul of Sh'nn T'arth is set as the centerpiece of the crown. The Soul is a gift to the Elf-King from the king of the Centaurs, meant to seal their alliance and represent the eternal friendship between Centaurs and Elves.

Event: Yoen D'Kari, the Elf-King's court seer, predicts a war with the Centaurs. The only person he tells of this is Taesa, the king's advisor, who keeps the information to herself in the hopes of keeping it from coming true.

Event: Taesa is killed when she saves the king from an assassination attempt. In a tragic - but likely inevitable - twist of fate, this assassination plot is carried out by a band of Centaurs who are part of an extremist group who seek war with the elves rather than friendship. Naturally, when the assassination team's leader Kor Ruus is captured, he pretends to tell the Elves everything but in fact gives them nothing but lies designed to make the Elves think that Centaurs are secretly pulling the wool over their eyes.

Event: Convinced that the Crown is cursed, the Elf-King delivers it to the Gnomes and asks them to use their magic to conceal it from the elves for all time.

Event: Before the Gnome-King Atticus Oldblood can complete the spell that will hide away the crown, his castle is besieged by the criminal cartel of Kullen Greedygut. The cartel is fought off and none of the royal family are harmed, but they manage to escape with several of the gnome's treasures, including the crown. Kullen takes the crown for himself, but sells The Soul of Sh'nn T'arth to Mordecai the Wandering Wizard.

Event: Centaur General Kar Varus, eager to earn glory in war, convinces the Centaur King that the Elf-King's rejection of the crown is a grave insult against his honor. The King is reluctant to declare war, but gives Kar Varus permission to launch a raid against an Elvish outpost as "appropriate punishment" for the insult.

Event: Kullen Greedygut, taking up wearing the Crown of the Elf-King and insisting on being referred to as King of Thieves, embarks on a series of bolder and bolder raids, cumulating in an ill-advised attempt to steal the horde of the Dragon Queen. The sole survivor of the raid, claiming the Dragon Queen allowed him to live to tell his tale as a warning to others. speaks of witnessing Kullen, still wearing the crown and boasting of his prowess, being incinerated in the depths of the Dragon's lair.

PERIOD: The Death of the Elf-King

EVENT: A regiment of Centaur soldiers, led by General Kar Varus, launches a surprise attack at the Elvish outpost at Wodin's Ford. The Elvish archers fight valiantly and inflict nearly 50% casualties on the Centuars, but in the end they are forced to surrender. His pride hurt because of the high losses, Kar Varus orders the Elvish prisoners executed.

Event: Elvish Crown Prince Saitu-Vass, felled by a glancing sling stone during the assault on Wodin's Ford and taken for dead, awakens among the piled corpses of his comrades. Hacking his way past a pair of inattentive Centaur sentries, he flees into the wilderness, were he eventually encounters a band of savage forest wildmen. Impressed with the prince's bravery and woodcraft, as well as being traditional enemies of the Centaurs, The Wildmen induct Saitu-Vass as one of their own.

EVENT: As tensions escalate after the battle at Wodin's Ford, court seer Yoen D'Kari predicts that only recovery of both the Crown and the The Soul of Sh'nn T'arth by the Elves can bring the impending war to an end. No one is sure if this mean that full-scale war can be avoided or that this would ensure an Elvish victory.

EVENT: The Elf-King orders an attack on the Centaur-controlled silver mine at Morton Mountain, as a response to the attack at Wodin's Ford. To encourage his people and convince them of the justice of the Elf cause, he opts to lead the attack himself.

EVENT: On the verge of victory at Morton Mountain, the elves are dealt a disastrous blow when the Elf-King is thrown from his horse and killed while leading his personal retinue in a bold charge against the centaur's vanguard.

Event: With the Elf-King dead, the only immediate heir is his great, great grand-nephew, Prince Leto Kekatsu, an impulsive, short-tempered youth hoping to make his mark on history. The reign of the nine-hundredth and fifty-fourth Elf-King is off to a rocky start when during his coronation, the archbishop suffers a seizure and the ceremony is postponed.

PERIOD: The Siege of the Dragon's Nest

Event: Looking to recover the crown, the Elf-King sends an elite team of trusted soldiers to the crowns last reported location. This location is the nest of X'zalliavasha, Queen of the Dragons.

Event: Unbeknownst to the soldiers, a centaur spy tracks their movements out of Tallwood and reports where the army is headed to General Kar Varus. As the elvish soldiers begin planning their siege of the nest, they are set upon by centaur troops, who slaughter them all with little casualties. Only Captain Ellor, leader of the elvish soldiers, is able to escape back to Tallwood and tell the Elf-King of what's happened, while the General prepares to take the Dragon Queen's hoard himself.

Event: Encouraged by their victory, the General Kar Varus attempts to take the Dragons nest despite the words of his advisors. Even so, the General mounts an attack that is surprisingly successful at first before X'zalliavasha, Queen of the Dragons, rallies what allies she has in the immediate area to launch a counter-attack against the Centaurs. The Centaurs are subsequently forced into retreat.

Event: Victorious but injured, X'zalliavasha, Queen of the Dragons is forced into retreat before reinforcements can be sent to finish her off. Her most loyal and nearby followers gather up her hoard - including the Crown of the Elf-King - and relocate it to several other locations for intended safe-keeping.

Event: Breowynn, middle daughter of a farming family in the rustic Willowfall region, shelters an injured woman in the family barn. Unknown to her, the woman is really X'zalliavasha Queen of the Dragons, disguised in human form and fleeing after being attacked and injured by centaur General Kar Varus. X'zalliavasha swears an oath of gratitude and bestows the Voice of Kamuun-Taa on Breowynn.

PERIOD: Declarations of WAR

***Event: During the funeral for the late Elf-King, General Kar Varus, seizing an opportunity without approval from the Centaur high command, launches an attack on the Elvish base the Muddy Outpost. The General underestimates the Elvish forces, however, and they drive him and his army back. The attack taking place during a funeral is seen as a grave insult to the elves, who accuse the Centaur high command of dishonorable conduct. They, in turn, are livid with the elves for thinking they would approve such an assault.

EVENT:This final incident is enough to end the tip-toeing around the issue and push the conflict over the edge: the Centaurs and Elves finally issue official declarations of war. Battle lines are quickly drawn as other regional powers weigh their options, and the matter quickly threatens to erupt into an even larger, full-scale conflict.

Event: Elvish Crown Prince Saitu-Vass, by this time having nearly healed, receives word about the Centaur-Elf War. He recognizes that he must return to his people at once, and is accompanied by a handful of savage wild forestmen.

Event: Word reaches Elf-King Leto Kekatsu that Crown Prince Saitu-Vass is still alive and on his way to take his rightful place as Elf-King. Not interested in so easily giving up his seat of power, Leto Kekatsu immediately begins plotting how to finish off Saitu-Vass for good.

Event: While the Royal Army prepares itself to take back Wordin's Fort, the new royal advisor Banto B'Reck discretely hires a band of gnomish mercenaries called the Heavy Hammers to dispose of Saitu-Vass before he reaches Tallwood.

PERIOD: The Flight of the Ancient Castle

Event: The Heavy Hammers prepare an ambush for Saitu-Vass and his allies just outside of Tallwood.

Event: Eager to turn the tide of the war, the Elf-King sends a discrete team of soldiers and archaeologists to a part of Tallwood thought inaccessible due to ivy overgrowth and old magicks. He hopes to harness these magicks by uncovering their source: the Ancient Castle, whose true elvish name was lost to time long ago.

EVENT: The elf unit reaches the Ancient Castle, but are attacked by a large scorpion when they attempt to enter. The scorpion is killed, but only after three of the 12 elves have been killed.

Event: The surviving elves begin searching the Castle, but are shocked when the Castle suddenly shakes itself free of its foundation and actually begins to rise into the sky.

Event: Having Saitu-Vass and his allies on the ropes and about to finish them off, the Heavy Hammers loose their edge when they are surprised by the sudden rise of the Ancient Castle, giving the Elf prince's band the opportunity they need to turn the tables on the Heavy Hammers. Once the Heavy Hammers have been forced into retreat, Saitu-Vass and his allies regroup and take a moment to recover before following after the flying Ancient Castle.

Event: Mastering their fear at being hurtled into the sky, the Elves quickly locate the castle's inner sanctum. There they find the hideous engine driving the ancient castle; an abysmal amalgam of clockwork mechanisms and throbbing organ-like growths. The foul construct seems to draw it's power from a ring of captives, girls of varying species, manacled to it's base. In a platform suspended above the blasphemous engine, Mordecai the Wandering Wizard titters and capers like a lunatic. When the elves hastily free the captives, the castle begins to drift downward.

Event: The elves do intense battle with various creatures summoned by Mordecai. In the end, the creatures are defeated. The four surviving elves pursue Mordecia to the top of the castle.

Event: Mordecai the Wandering Wizard, clutching The Soul of Sh'nn T'arth in one hand, screams in insane rage has he leaps from the Castle's highest parapet.

Event: The mere sight of a castle in the sky, one piloted by a race that has attempted to steal their hordes so many times, is enough to put fear into the Dragon Queen, something she's not comfortable with. X'zalliavasha, with her debt to Breowynn repaid, begins considering taking her horde and her children away from this accursed realm of warring nations and flying castles.

ENDING PERIOD: The final battle between the Centaurs and the Elves.

Event: Prince Saitu-Vass and his party stumble upon the corpse of Mordecai the Wandering Wizard, with The Soul of Sh'nn T'arth still clutched in his grip.

Event: The centaurs rejoice as their allies, The Stone Giants, appear and close on the Elf/Wildman force from the rear. Before the giants can come to grips with their foes, Breowynn hails them from a nearby hilltop and exhorts them to retreat. The Giants derisively refuse and Breowynn brandishes a tiny brass bell, offering them one last chance to retreat. The giants continue to advance and Breowynn sounds the bell, producing a massive wave of destruction that kills all but a few of the hindmost giants. The utter defeat of the Stone Giants turns the tide in favor of the elves and earns Breowynn the sobriquet Giantsbane.

EVENT: While the battle rages about them, Leto Kekatsu finds himself cornered by Saitu-Vass. "Your conduct as Elf-King has been most unseemly, cousin." Saitu-Vass explains "now you must pay."
Leto gives ground, stalling for time to summon his lackeys. "Must I pay, in full?" he stammers.

Saitu-Vass closes in, drawing his sword. "In full."

Event: Leto throws down his blade and flees before his cousin. Saitu-Vass pursues, but before he can catch the would-be Elf King, Leto blunders into the path of an enraged General Kar-Varus, who promptly runs him through with a lance.
The Centaur General wheels about and charges Saitu-Vass. The Elf-Prince stands his ground, and at the last moment leaps aside while hurling a Wildman's copper ax, splitting Kar-Varus' skull like a ripe melon.

Saitu-Vass, struggling to his feet, is confronted by a tall, dark woman in an grotesquely elaborate gown. He instinctively recognizes her as X'zalliavasha. "Well played, stripling." she purrs, and extends to him the much battered Crown of the Elf-King. "take your prize. May it bring you whatever fortune you deserve."

Event: The wedding of Breowynn Giantsbane to Prince Saitu-Vass, along with the Exodus of the Dragons, marks the end of War of the Crown and the beginning of the Age of The Golden Ones.

That's a good one. It's now Space Jawa's turn to add something if he wishes.

Somebody might want to explain why Breowynn Giantsbane and Prince Saitu-Vass marry

Who WOULDN'T want to marry Breowynn Giantsbane?

I'm about to call this one complete. Char-Vell, if you want to add another event before this, feel free to do so.

I think we're done.

Comments?


Title?

"The Crown of the Elf-King"
or

"The Elf-Centaur War"

Humans don't seem to be an important faction in this world. But I was picturing Breowynn as human. Did anyone else assume she was human, or did you "see" her as an elf?

I thought she was human, as were the Wildmen, and the Pagatalynxas.

I thought she was an elf. The Wildmen were probably human, as implied by their name.

For a title, how about "The War in Tallwood"?

Also, wanna sign up for the next game?

I like "The War in Tallwood." We'll go with that.

THE WAR IN TALLWOOD: THE COMPLETE EPIC:

PREMISE: The Quest to recover the Crown of the Elf-King

FIRST PERIOD: The Prophesy

Event: Half elf necromancer Kamuun-Taa is condemned by the emperor of the island realm of Pagatalynx to eternal imprisonment in the catacombs under Mount Siptorath. Before he is taken away, he works potent magics upon a miniature brass bell, and has it smuggled to the continent by one of his minions. Kamuun-Taa is never heard from again. The bell, alleged to be a weapon of obscene power, become known as The Voice of Kamuun-Taa.

Event: The Crown of the Elf-King is forged. the mystic ruby The Soul of Sh'nn T'arth is set as the centerpiece of the crown. The Soul is a gift to the Elf-King from the king of the Centaurs, meant to seal their alliance and represent the eternal friendship between Centaurs and Elves.

Event: Yoen D'Kari, the Elf-King's court seer, predicts a war with the Centaurs. The only person he tells of this is Taesa, the king's advisor, who keeps the information to herself in the hopes of keeping it from coming true.

Event: Taesa is killed when she saves the king from an assassination attempt. In a tragic - but likely inevitable - twist of fate, this assassination plot is carried out by a band of Centaurs who are part of an extremist group who seek war with the elves rather than friendship. Naturally, when the assassination team's leader Kor Ruus is captured, he pretends to tell the Elves everything but in fact gives them nothing but lies designed to make the Elves think that Centaurs are secretly pulling the wool over their eyes.

Event: Convinced that the Crown is cursed, the Elf-King delivers it to the Gnomes and asks them to use their magic to conceal it from the elves for all time.

Event: Before the Gnome-King Atticus Oldblood can complete the spell that will hide away the crown, his castle is besieged by the criminal cartel of Kullen Greedygut. The cartel is fought off and none of the royal family are harmed, but they manage to escape with several of the gnome's treasures, including the crown. Kullen takes the crown for himself, but sells The Soul of Sh'nn T'arth to Mordecai the Wandering Wizard.

Event: Centaur General Kar Varus, eager to earn glory in war, convinces the Centaur King that the Elf-King's rejection of the crown is a grave insult against his honor. The King is reluctant to declare war, but gives Kar Varus permission to launch a raid against an Elvish outpost as "appropriate punishment" for the insult.

Event: Kullen Greedygut, taking up wearing the Crown of the Elf-King and insisting on being referred to as King of Thieves, embarks on a series of bolder and bolder raids, cumulating in an ill-advised attempt to steal the horde of the Dragon Queen. The sole survivor of the raid, claiming the Dragon Queen allowed him to live to tell his tale as a warning to others. speaks of witnessing Kullen, still wearing the crown and boasting of his prowess, being incinerated in the depths of the Dragon's lair.

PERIOD: The Death of the Elf-King

EVENT: A regiment of Centaur soldiers, led by General Kar Varus, launches a surprise attack at the Elvish outpost at Wodin's Ford. The Elvish archers fight valiantly and inflict nearly 50% casualties on the Centuars, but in the end they are forced to surrender. His pride hurt because of the high losses, Kar Varus orders the Elvish prisoners executed.

Event: Elvish Crown Prince Saitu-Vass, felled by a glancing sling stone during the assault on Wodin's Ford and taken for dead, awakens among the piled corpses of his comrades. Hacking his way past a pair of inattentive Centaur sentries, he flees into the wilderness, were he eventually encounters a band of savage forest wildmen. Impressed with the prince's bravery and woodcraft, as well as being traditional enemies of the Centaurs, The Wildmen induct Saitu-Vass as one of their own.

EVENT: As tensions escalate after the battle at Wodin's Ford, court seer Yoen D'Kari predicts that only recovery of both the Crown and the The Soul of Sh'nn T'arth by the Elves can bring the impending war to an end. No one is sure if this mean that full-scale war can be avoided or that this would ensure an Elvish victory.

EVENT: The Elf-King orders an attack on the Centaur-controlled silver mine at Morton Mountain, as a response to the attack at Wodin's Ford. To encourage his people and convince them of the justice of the Elf cause, he opts to lead the attack himself.

EVENT: On the verge of victory at Morton Mountain, the elves are dealt a disastrous blow when the Elf-King is thrown from his horse and killed while leading his personal retinue in a bold charge against the centaur's vanguard.

Event: With the Elf-King dead, the only immediate heir is his great, great grand-nephew, Prince Leto Kekatsu, an impulsive, short-tempered youth hoping to make his mark on history. The reign of the nine-hundredth and fifty-fourth Elf-King is off to a rocky start when during his coronation, the archbishop suffers a seizure and the ceremony is postponed.

PERIOD: The Siege of the Dragon's Nest

Event: Looking to recover the crown, the Elf-King sends an elite team of trusted soldiers to the crowns last reported location. This location is the nest of X'zalliavasha, Queen of the Dragons.

Event: Unbeknownst to the soldiers, a centaur spy tracks their movements out of Tallwood and reports where the army is headed to General Kar Varus. As the elvish soldiers begin planning their siege of the nest, they are set upon by centaur troops, who slaughter them all with little casualties. Only Captain Ellor, leader of the elvish soldiers, is able to escape back to Tallwood and tell the Elf-King of what's happened, while the General prepares to take the Dragon Queen's hoard himself.

Event: Encouraged by their victory, the General Kar Varus attempts to take the Dragons nest despite the words of his advisors. Even so, the General mounts an attack that is surprisingly successful at first before X'zalliavasha, Queen of the Dragons, rallies what allies she has in the immediate area to launch a counter-attack against the Centaurs. The Centaurs are subsequently forced into retreat.

Event: Victorious but injured, X'zalliavasha, Queen of the Dragons is forced into retreat before reinforcements can be sent to finish her off. Her most loyal and nearby followers gather up her hoard - including the Crown of the Elf-King - and relocate it to several other locations for intended safe-keeping.

Event: Breowynn, middle daughter of a farming family in the rustic Willowfall region, shelters an injured woman in the family barn. Unknown to her, the woman is really X'zalliavasha Queen of the Dragons, disguised in human form and fleeing after being attacked and injured by centaur General Kar Varus. X'zalliavasha swears an oath of gratitude and bestows the Voice of Kamuun-Taa on Breowynn.

PERIOD: Declarations of WAR

***Event: During the funeral for the late Elf-King, General Kar Varus, seizing an opportunity without approval from the Centaur high command, launches an attack on the Elvish base the Muddy Outpost. The General underestimates the Elvish forces, however, and they drive him and his army back. The attack taking place during a funeral is seen as a grave insult to the elves, who accuse the Centaur high command of dishonorable conduct. They, in turn, are livid with the elves for thinking they would approve such an assault.

EVENT:This final incident is enough to end the tip-toeing around the issue and push the conflict over the edge: the Centaurs and Elves finally issue official declarations of war. Battle lines are quickly drawn as other regional powers weigh their options, and the matter quickly threatens to erupt into an even larger, full-scale conflict.

Event: Elvish Crown Prince Saitu-Vass, by this time having nearly healed, receives word about the Centaur-Elf War. He recognizes that he must return to his people at once, and is accompanied by a handful of savage wild forestmen.

Event: Word reaches Elf-King Leto Kekatsu that Crown Prince Saitu-Vass is still alive and on his way to take his rightful place as Elf-King. Not interested in so easily giving up his seat of power, Leto Kekatsu immediately begins plotting how to finish off Saitu-Vass for good.

Event: While the Royal Army prepares itself to take back Wordin's Fort, the new royal advisor Banto B'Reck discretely hires a band of gnomish mercenaries called the Heavy Hammers to dispose of Saitu-Vass before he reaches Tallwood.

PERIOD: The Flight of the Ancient Castle

Event: The Heavy Hammers prepare an ambush for Saitu-Vass and his allies just outside of Tallwood.

Event: Eager to turn the tide of the war, the Elf-King sends a discrete team of soldiers and archaeologists to a part of Tallwood thought inaccessible due to ivy overgrowth and old magicks. He hopes to harness these magicks by uncovering their source: the Ancient Castle, whose true elvish name was lost to time long ago.

EVENT: The elf unit reaches the Ancient Castle, but are attacked by a large scorpion when they attempt to enter. The scorpion is killed, but only after three of the 12 elves have been killed.

Event: The surviving elves begin searching the Castle, but are shocked when the Castle suddenly shakes itself free of its foundation and actually begins to rise into the sky.

Event: Having Saitu-Vass and his allies on the ropes and about to finish them off, the Heavy Hammers loose their edge when they are surprised by the sudden rise of the Ancient Castle, giving the Elf prince's band the opportunity they need to turn the tables on the Heavy Hammers. Once the Heavy Hammers have been forced into retreat, Saitu-Vass and his allies regroup and take a moment to recover before following after the flying Ancient Castle.

Event: Mastering their fear at being hurtled into the sky, the Elves quickly locate the castle's inner sanctum. There they find the hideous engine driving the ancient castle; an abysmal amalgam of clockwork mechanisms and throbbing organ-like growths. The foul construct seems to draw it's power from a ring of captives, girls of varying species, manacled to it's base. In a platform suspended above the blasphemous engine, Mordecai the Wandering Wizard titters and capers like a lunatic. When the elves hastily free the captives, the castle begins to drift downward.

Event: The elves do intense battle with various creatures summoned by Mordecai. In the end, the creatures are defeated. The four surviving elves pursue Mordecia to the top of the castle.

Event: Mordecai the Wandering Wizard, clutching The Soul of Sh'nn T'arth in one hand, screams in insane rage has he leaps from the Castle's highest parapet.

Event: The mere sight of a castle in the sky, one piloted by a race that has attempted to steal their hordes so many times, is enough to put fear into the Dragon Queen, something she's not comfortable with. X'zalliavasha, with her debt to Breowynn repaid, begins considering taking her horde and her children away from this accursed realm of warring nations and flying castles.

ENDING PERIOD: The final battle between the Centaurs and the Elves.

Event: Prince Saitu-Vass and his party stumble upon the corpse of Mordecai the Wandering Wizard, with The Soul of Sh'nn T'arth still clutched in his grip.

Event: The centaurs rejoice as their allies, The Stone Giants, appear and close on the Elf/Wildman force from the rear. Before the giants can come to grips with their foes, Breowynn hails them from a nearby hilltop and exhorts them to retreat. The Giants derisively refuse and Breowynn brandishes a tiny brass bell, offering them one last chance to retreat. The giants continue to advance and Breowynn sounds the bell, producing a massive wave of destruction that kills all but a few of the hindmost giants. The utter defeat of the Stone Giants turns the tide in favor of the elves and earns Breowynn the sobriquet Giantsbane.

EVENT: While the battle rages about them, Leto Kekatsu finds himself cornered by Saitu-Vass. "Your conduct as Elf-King has been most unseemly, cousin." Saitu-Vass explains "now you must pay."
Leto gives ground, stalling for time to summon his lackeys. "Must I pay, in full?" he stammers.

Saitu-Vass closes in, drawing his sword. "In full."

Event: Leto throws down his blade and flees before his cousin. Saitu-Vass pursues, but before he can catch the would-be Elf King, Leto blunders into the path of an enraged General Kar-Varus, who promptly runs him through with a lance.
The Centaur General wheels about and charges Saitu-Vass. The Elf-Prince stands his ground, and at the last moment leaps aside while hurling a Wildman's copper ax, splitting Kar-Varus' skull like a ripe melon.

Saitu-Vass, struggling to his feet, is confronted by a tall, dark woman in an grotesquely elaborate gown. He instinctively recognizes her as X'zalliavasha. "Well played, stripling." she purrs, and extends to him the much battered Crown of the Elf-King. "take your prize. May it bring you whatever fortune you deserve."

Event: The wedding of Breowynn Giantsbane to Prince Saitu-Vass, along with the Exodus of the Dragons, marks the end of War of the Crown and the beginning of the Age of The Golden Ones.