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 This in mind, the Dominion Era as described in modern discourse is the period of time between the alleged birth of the legendary Prophetess and the reign of the Pale Imperator [[Dominion Era/Zavyrr a'Zo-Hanyll (Imperator)|Zavyrr a'Zo-Hanyll]], specifically the departure of the [[Dominion Era/Tretallë (Military)#The Forerunners|Urallë]] across the [[Thundering Sea]] to the [[IldRenn|West]] under his command. There is a period of time a hundred years long following the end of the Dominion Era known only as the [[Dominion Era#The Consolidation|Consolidation]], which was ended by the landing of the [[Dominion Era/Tretallë (Military)|Ereiltallë]] on the shores of the West, marking the beginning of the [[Conquest Era (Western)|Western Conquest Era]].
-It is important to note that the [[Feudal Era]] of the West overlaps with the last two thousand years of the Dominion Era and extends right up into the beginning of the Western Conquest Era.
+It is important to note that the [[Feudal Era]] of the West overlaps with the last eight thousand years of the Dominion Era and extends right up into the beginning of the Western Conquest Era.
 == The Prophetess and the Fall of the Elfin Realm ==

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 The beginning of the Dominion Era, as used in modern parlance, is interestingly enough not the establishment of the [[Dominion Era/Tretallë (Government)|Dominion]] as the name of the time period may suggest. There is only one account that extends beyond the birth of the precursors to the Tretallë, and that is the legend of [[Dominion Era/The Prophetess|Prophetess Llyrileýwa]], which in turn begins at her alleged birth toward the end of the Time Immortal—a period of time also known as the Time Primeval and the Shrouded Past. The latter moniker of the Time Immortal, the Shrouded Past, is perhaps the most striking as it is a historian's admission to an utter lack of knowledge. All that is known of the Time Immortal is that the elves born during the height of the period were blessed with eternal youth and life.
-This in mind, the Dominion Era as described in modern discourse is the period of time between the alleged birth of the legendary Prophetess and the reign of the Pale Imperator [[Dominion Era/Zavyrr a'Zo-Hanyll (Imperator)|Zavyrr a'Zo-Hanyll]], specifically the departure of the [[Dominion Era/Tretallë (Military)#The Forerunners|Urallë]] across the [[Thundering Sea]] to the [[IldRenn|West]] under his command. There is a period of time two thousand years long following the end of the Dominion Era known only as the [[Dominion Era#The Consolidation|Consolidation]], which was ended by the landing of the [[Dominion Era/Tretallë (Military)|Ereiltallë]] on the shores of the West, marking the beginning of the [[Conquest Era (Western)|Western Conquest Era]].
+This in mind, the Dominion Era as described in modern discourse is the period of time between the alleged birth of the legendary Prophetess and the reign of the Pale Imperator [[Dominion Era/Zavyrr a'Zo-Hanyll (Imperator)|Zavyrr a'Zo-Hanyll]], specifically the departure of the [[Dominion Era/Tretallë (Military)#The Forerunners|Urallë]] across the [[Thundering Sea]] to the [[IldRenn|West]] under his command. There is a period of time a hundred years long following the end of the Dominion Era known only as the [[Dominion Era#The Consolidation|Consolidation]], which was ended by the landing of the [[Dominion Era/Tretallë (Military)|Ereiltallë]] on the shores of the West, marking the beginning of the [[Conquest Era (Western)|Western Conquest Era]].
-It is important to note that the [[Feudal Era]] of the West overlaps with the last eight thousand years of the Dominion Era and extends right up into the beginning of the Western Conquest Era.
+It is important to note that the [[Feudal Era]] of the West overlaps with the last two thousand years of the Dominion Era and extends right up into the beginning of the Western Conquest Era.
 == The Prophetess and the Fall of the Elfin Realm ==

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 The beginning of the Dominion Era, as used in modern parlance, is interestingly enough not the establishment of the [[Dominion Era/Tretallë (Government)|Dominion]] as the name of the time period may suggest. There is only one account that extends beyond the birth of the precursors to the Tretallë, and that is the legend of [[Dominion Era/The Prophetess|Prophetess Llyrileýwa]], which in turn begins at her alleged birth toward the end of the Time Immortal—a period of time also known as the Time Primeval and the Shrouded Past. The latter moniker of the Time Immortal, the Shrouded Past, is perhaps the most striking as it is a historian's admission to an utter lack of knowledge. All that is known of the Time Immortal is that the elves born during the height of the period were blessed with eternal youth and life.
-This in mind, the Dominion Era as described in modern discourse is the period of time between the alleged birth of the legendary Prophetess and the reign of the Pale Imperator [[Dominion Era/Veltaor a'Adyrrê|Veltaor a'Adyrrë]], specifically the departure of the [[Dominion Era/Tretallë (Military)#The Forerunners|Urallë]] across the [[Thundering Sea]] to the [[IldRenn|West]] under his command. There is a period of time two thousand years long following the end of the Dominion Era known only as the [[Dominion Era#The Consolidation|Consolidation]], which was ended by the landing of the [[Dominion Era/Tretallë (Military)|Ereiltallë]] on the shores of the West, marking the beginning of the [[Conquest Era (Western)|Western Conquest Era]].
+This in mind, the Dominion Era as described in modern discourse is the period of time between the alleged birth of the legendary Prophetess and the reign of the Pale Imperator [[Dominion Era/Zavyrr a'Zo-Hanyll (Imperator)|Zavyrr a'Zo-Hanyll]], specifically the departure of the [[Dominion Era/Tretallë (Military)#The Forerunners|Urallë]] across the [[Thundering Sea]] to the [[IldRenn|West]] under his command. There is a period of time two thousand years long following the end of the Dominion Era known only as the [[Dominion Era#The Consolidation|Consolidation]], which was ended by the landing of the [[Dominion Era/Tretallë (Military)|Ereiltallë]] on the shores of the West, marking the beginning of the [[Conquest Era (Western)|Western Conquest Era]].
 It is important to note that the [[Feudal Era]] of the West overlaps with the last eight thousand years of the Dominion Era and extends right up into the beginning of the Western Conquest Era.

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 D'Bremiernë Elloreni Qor'Zavë — The Testament of Elloreni the Elder (lit. ''The memory-book of Elloreni the Elder'')
-''In ages long past, times long vanished into the mists of myth and unknown to the annals of history, lay tales that remain only in living memory as whispers of what has passed. Many tens of thousands of years before our Dominion was ever even imagined, our people the Tretall&euml;, and '''them''', the Elledynn&euml; were indistinguishable. We were but one race, the Aen{{sub|e}}v&euml;, the Great Elves of the East. We were united. We were one with the land and all its creatures.''
+''In an age long since passed, during a time that has vanished into the mists of myth, passed down only through the art of telling tales and only recently written down for posterity, lay tales that remain in living memory only as whispers of what transpired.''
-''We were happy. We were prosperous. We were whole. This peace would not last. One night, as the moon rose followed by its lover, the first cries of prayer and ecstasy dedicated to a foreign three-headed goddess shattered the calm quiet. To this day no one knows from where this goddess hailed, only that she did not come alone. The three-headed goddess came with an enemy, one decked with the feathers of a raven, its sharp beak, and its beady eyes.''
+''Many tens of thousands of years before our great Dominion was ever even imagined, our ancestors, and '''theirs''' were indistinguishable. We were but one race. Aen{{sub|e}}vë, we were called. The Great Elves of the East. We were united—one with the land and all its creatures.''
-''From that day forth, everything changed. As the new goddess grew in power, we lost our connection to the land, severed from our druidic roots. She convinced our fair-skinned brethren that we were the spawn of evil, twisted versions of them corrupted by the raven-goddess. In their arrogance, in their pursuit of beauty and earthly affluence, they believed her. In their vainglory they made themselves golden by the light of the sun, cut down our sacred trees to grow new ones of silver, and called themselves Di'Elledynn&euml;, the children of the stars. As they rose from the forest floor and reached for the stars, enslaved us and shackled us and bound us to the merciless earth.''
+''Though we had fallen far, even then, we were happy. We were prosperous. We were whole, above all. This peace would not last. One night, as the moon rose, followed by its lover, the first cries of prayer and ecstasy dedicated to a foreign goddess shattered the silence. To this day, no one knows where she came from, only that she did not come alone. She came with an enemy, one decked with the feathers of a raven, beak sharp and eyes beady.''
-''The Elledynn&euml; caged us in the mountains and shoved picks in our hands to mine their silver and gold. In our people's weakness, we could do naught but comply to our new cruel masters. Many of us died, many by their own hands. The Elledynn&euml;, in their vainglory and self-perceived superiority gave us no shrouds of silk or thread as was customary to bear our dead with. Instead we used the mountains as our shroud. We used the stone to cover our people's bones.''
+''From that day forth, everything changed. As the new goddess grew in power, despite the great Mother's best efforts, we lost our connection to the land. We were severed from our druidic roots. The goddess convinced some of our brethren that we were the spawn of evil. That we, who had only just been born with the gift of paleness, were twisted versions of them corrupted by the raven goddess.''
-''The Elledynn&euml; believed that we were stupid creatures, ugly and dumb, capable of only doing what we were trained to do, from birth, with the crack of the whip. They had forgotten that we had once been like them, too, intelligent and strong. As we toiled and grieved for our betrayal, he came to us, pale and radiant as the release of death. We called him [[Qell'Morat-Lan|Lertanys]], Stranger, for we did not know him.''
+''So taken were they by her promise of salvation, so eager were they to indulge their desire for beauty and worldly affluence, that they believed her. In their vainglory, they made themselves golden by the light of the sun. They cut down our sacred trees to grow new ones of silver. And last, but perhaps most insultingly, they took to calling themselves Di'Elledynnë, the children of the stars.''
-''This Stranger led us beyond the depths where the silver and gold glittered and into the very heart of the mountain where the Primeval Wurm lay slumbering. It was there, in that chamber, that we discovered fragments of stars. As the Wurm stirred from its rest, we fled its lair. As we did, we realized that there were shards of stars buried in the rock of the mountain. For the first time in many, many, many years, we had hope.''
+''They rose from the forest floor, arms outstretched for the stars. They beat us down, enslaved us, shackled us, and bound us to the merciless earth.''
-''By morning we toiled under the cruelty of our masters. By night we disturbed the tombs of our dead and forged our weapons and armour within them. Under the guidance of the Stranger, we waited until the day came that the moon turned crimson in the sky. It was on that day that we broke our chains and rose up against our slavers. So very many of our people died that day, but those of us that were armed with the shards of stars remained untouched. What magic the Elledynn&euml; could muster shattered against our weapons and our armour as we cut them down and made the stone of the mountain slippery with their blood.''
+''They caged us in the mountains and shoved picks in hands that had never known the hard labour of the mine—we had never had any use for metal other than what was offered by the land. They forced us to mine for their silver and gold, and in our people's shameful weakness, we could do nothing but comply with their wishes.''
-''We took the mountain. We shattered their kingdom. We spread across the lands that they once called theirs and made it ours. Our many clans drifted apart to start our own towns and cities, to build new lives atop the rubble of our old ones. We may have become separate, but we knew that should the Elledynn&euml; ever threaten us again, we would waste no time on bickering. We would come together and crush them as we had that fateful day we broke our chains and seized our freedom.''
+''The great Mother tried to free us, but again, her voice remained unheard. Before she found a way to come to us, many of us died. Of those, few died of hands other than their own. In their self-perceived superiority, they gave us no shrouds of silk or thread as was customary to bury our dead with. They denied us our Elvishness, our identity, our culture. Left with no other choice, we used the mountains as our shrouds instead, and we used the very stone to cover our bones.''
 == The Beginnings of the Dominion ==

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 {{main|Dominion Era/The Prophetess|l1=Prophetess Llyrileýwa}}
-Before there were the Elledynnë and the Tretallë, there were only the Aen{{sub|e}}ve, the Great Elves of the East, united and undivided. Though little is truly known about the period, the story of the Prophetess hints very strongly at the existence of a strong druidic faith during the Time Immortal, one that dwindled with the passing years until it was balanced precariously on a knife's edge when the Prophetess was born. What ''is'' known of the period is that at some point during the lifetime of the prophetess, a new goddess, the [[Ovyrë Ohyrda|Triple Goddess]], manifested among the Aen{{sub|e}}ve. This new goddess bore a message of racial supremacy and promoted hedonism, qualities that are both apparent in the modern-day faith that claims to have descended from that time.
+Before there were the Elledynnë and the Tretallë, there were only the Aen{{sub|e}}vë, the Great Elves of the East, united and undivided. Though little is truly known about the period, the story of the Prophetess hints very strongly at the existence of a strong druidic faith during the Time Immortal, one that dwindled with the passing years until it was balanced precariously on a knife's edge when the Prophetess was born. What ''is'' known of the period is that at some point during the lifetime of the prophetess, a new goddess, the [[Ovyrë Ohyrda|Triple Goddess]], manifested among the Aen{{sub|e}}vë. This new goddess bore a message of racial supremacy and promoted hedonism, qualities that are both apparent in the modern-day faith that claims to have descended from that time.
-Nevertheless, the Prophetess took on the leadership of the Druidic Order and fought against the growing popularity of the Triple Goddess with all the strength that she could muster. In fact, her dire predictions about the fate of the Elfin realm, if it continued on its path of debauchery, vanity, abandonment of its druidic roots, and its shunning of the Pale God were what earned her the title of Prophetess. The prophetess' words went unheard and soon, it became apparent that there was a change beginning to take root among the elves. Immortality was a gift that had long since been waning by the time the Triple Goddess entered the scene, but after she started to grow in popularity, elves with ashen skin, who matured to have strange stripes across their faces, who were taller and lankier in general compared to the Aen{{sub|e}}ve, and who lived two or three times longer than the average elf did, began to appear.
+Nevertheless, the Prophetess took on the leadership of the Druidic Order and fought against the growing popularity of the Triple Goddess with all the strength that she could muster. In fact, her dire predictions about the fate of the Elfin realm, if it continued on its path of debauchery, vanity, abandonment of its druidic roots, and its shunning of the Pale God were what earned her the title of Prophetess. The prophetess' words went unheard and soon, it became apparent that there was a change beginning to take root among the elves. Immortality was a gift that had long since been waning by the time the Triple Goddess entered the scene, but after she started to grow in popularity, elves with ashen skin, who matured to have strange stripes across their faces, who were taller and lankier in general compared to the Aen{{sub|e}}vë, and who lived two or three times longer than the average elf did, began to appear.
 Though initially and reluctantly taken as the fulfillment of the Prophetess' warnings, these new elves were immediately seized upon by the growing fanatic base of the Triple Goddess. They were blamed for all the misfortunes of the Elves and called abominations touched by the Triple Goddess' nemesis, the Raven Goddess. The rift between the Pale Ones, as the Prophetess took to calling them, and the rest of the Elfin realm grew to the point that the then-incumbent king declared that they were fit only for lives of menial labour. Despite the Prophetess' best efforts, the Pale Ones were rounded up and herded to the Shrouded Peaks, where they were used as a slave workforce to feed the Elfin realm's growing demand for gold, silver, and precious stones.

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	It is important to note that the [[Feudal Era]] of the West overlaps with the last eight thousand years of the Dominion Era and extends right up into the beginning of the Western Conquest Era.		It is important to note that the [[Feudal Era]] of the West overlaps with the last eight thousand years of the Dominion Era and extends right up into the beginning of the Western Conquest Era.
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		+	Before there were the Elledynnë and the Tretallë, there were only the Aen{{sub\|e}}ve, the Great Elves of the East, united and undivided. Though little is truly known about the period, the story of the Prophetess hints very strongly at the existence of a strong druidic faith during the Time Immortal, one that dwindled over time until it was balanced precariously on a knife's edge when the Prophetess was born.

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-Prior to the first recorded documents that mark the beginning of the Dominion Era, there is nothing known to historians other than fragments of oral tradition from the Elfin Diaspora that have survived to the present day. As such, the span of time many tens of thousands of years prior to the establishment of the [[Dominion Era/Tretall&euml; (Government)|Dominion]] is included, traditionally, when speaking of the Dominion Era. Anything prior to the Diaspora is considered to be a part of the Primeval Era, which is basically an admission of an utter lack of knowledge.
+The beginning of the Dominion Era, as used in modern parlance, is interestingly enough not the establishment of the [[Dominion Era/Tretallë (Government)|Dominion]] as the name of the time period may suggest. There is only one account that extends beyond the birth of the precursors to the Tretallë, and that is the legend of [[Dominion Era/The Prophetess|Prophetess Llyrileýwa]], which in turn begins at her alleged birth toward the end of the Time Immortal—a period of time also known as the Time Primeval and the Shrouded Past. The latter moniker of the Time Immortal, the Shrouded Past, is perhaps the most striking as it is a historian's admission to an utter lack of knowledge. All that is known of the Time Immortal is that the elves born during the height of the period were blessed with eternal youth and life.
-On the other end, the Dominion Era is marked by the first [[Dominion Era/Tretall&euml; (Military)#The Forerunners|Urall&euml;]] being sent out across the Thundering Sea to the west, challenging the traditional notion that there are no lands that lie across the sea. The [[Dominion Era/Tretall&euml; (Military)|Ereiltall&euml;]] landing in the West, two thousand years later, marks the beginning of the [[Western Conquest Era]].
+This in mind, the Dominion Era as described in modern discourse is the period of time between the alleged birth of the legendary Prophetess and the reign of the Pale Imperator [[Dominion Era/Veltaor a'Adyrrê|Veltaor a'Adyrrë]], specifically the departure of the [[Dominion Era/Tretallë (Military)#The Forerunners|Urallë]] across the [[Thundering Sea]] to the [[IldRenn|West]] under his command. There is a period of time two thousand years long following the end of the Dominion Era known only as the [[Dominion Era#The Consolidation]], which was ended by the landing of the [[Dominion Era/Tretallë (Military)|Ereiltallë]] on the shores of the West, marking the beginning of the [[Conquest Era (Western)|Western Conquest Era]].
-It is also important to note that the [[Feudal Era]] of the [[IldRenn|West]], overlaps with the last eight thousand years of the Dominion Era and extends right up into the beginning of the Western Conquest Era.
+It is important to note that the [[Feudal Era]] of the West overlaps with the last eight thousand years of the Dominion Era and extends right up into the beginning of the Western Conquest Era.
 == The Elfin Diaspora ==

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		+	D'Bremiernë Elloreni Qor'Zavë — The Testament of Elloreni the Elder (lit. ''The memory-book of Elloreni the Elder'')
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	''In ages long past, times long vanished into the mists of myth and unknown to the annals of history, lay tales that remain only in living memory as whispers of what has passed. Many tens of thousands of years before our Dominion was ever even imagined, our people the Tretallë, and '''them''', the Elledynnë were indistinguishable. We were but one race, the Aen{{sub\|e}}vë, the Great Elves of the East. We were united. We were one with the land and all its creatures.''		''In ages long past, times long vanished into the mists of myth and unknown to the annals of history, lay tales that remain only in living memory as whispers of what has passed. Many tens of thousands of years before our Dominion was ever even imagined, our people the Tretallë, and '''them''', the Elledynnë were indistinguishable. We were but one race, the Aen{{sub\|e}}vë, the Great Elves of the East. We were united. We were one with the land and all its creatures.''