Page 140 (1/1)

"It was during that tie that defied explanation We ceased to give birth to our own kind, and instead, another type of elf cah us These elves were, in essence, a weaker stock Though possessing reatly diminished in their physical beauty Most iic that we had i as the first of our kind before dying These were the forbearers of the coe didn't end there The succeeding births by our kind turned out in different forer and stockier variant of ourselves with a much shorter lifespan and ears of a different shaped from our own -humans -, to a short, bearded race that was very distrustful and violent -dwarves At first, there was confusion and fear over the change in our children, but in the end, it was decided that we should be their caretakers, and nurture theht So even in the tion clans, we nurtured these 'lesser races' to civilization, but in so doing, ruled over theenerations of High elves born and a s of the lesser races, whouise of a cole and learn what I could from them But in their company, I saw all too clearly the evil that we had embraced To the lesser races, ere h to us, they seemed happy in their tasks, I could see the hatred in their eyes, suppressed by fear

"The dwarves were kept under strict control, ression into the art of war against the dragons, which, as I ca foras generalized servants and soldiers alongside the Dwarves, and worshiping us as gods The co us as acolytes in the way of ed this

"As the war raged on, we rested safely in our norant to the destruction that the war had caused the lesser races But of course, the kind of life we led could not help but breed only complacency And as we laid back in security and comfort, we did not realize that the veil of enchantment had been pulled away froons And by this, those e thought to be utterly loyal began to turn on us, little by little In the end, we had to re-learn how to defend ourselves, but instead of one eneht,had to withstand the coons and the lesser races