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Shikarapura, the Nation the Dark Elves Built
In 1392 the elves of Europe voted on their future, and the side that lost walked away. Three centuries later, in a valley between…
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After the Empire: Aldermark, the Last Elven Empire, in Its First Post-Imperial Decade
In 2018 an elderly elf died peacefully in his garden in the forest town of Elchwood. He was 847 years old. Fifteen years earlier,…
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Bastille Saint-Estelle, the Elvish Town Whose Patron Saint Wears Freyja’s Necklace
The monastery bells in Bastille ring at six every morning and six every evening, and they have done so for five hundred years. The…
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Weeping Island: The Island Where We Laid Down Our Grief
Weeping Island raises three questions, and they come in order. The first is the name. The second is why anyone lives there. The th…
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Oesterheim: Where the Wind Is the Only Netural Party
The wind never stops on Oesterheim. It comes off the North Atlantic with a patience that makes elvish patience look hasty, and it…
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Aldø: Fifty Minutes from Sylt and the Oldest Temple in the Elvish World
The car ferry from the German island of Sylt runs every hour and takes about fifty minutes. The island comes up slowly through the…