The Court of Ullusa was a society of elves in Gwessar in the Age of Arcanum, the remnants of which returned after the Calamity and founded the city-state of Syngorn.
Location
Although Syngorn was founded after the Calamity, and named for the beauty of the forest that was born from the lingering elemental energy and confluence of ley lines that shifted there due to the Calamity, the Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn says that during the Age of Arcanum the prosperity and might of the Qoniira Tetrarchy eclipsed that of the nearby realm of Syngorn, and that amidst the destruction of the Calamity the elves of the continent gathered in their last remaining city which was called Syngorn. (Not all the elves, though: a wandering colony fleeing the destruction of the Calamity ended up as the Orroyen tribes of the Rifenmist Peninsula.)
When the remnants of the Court of Ullusa returned to Exandria after the Calamity, they traveled west toward the newly formed Verdant Expanse.
Demographics
The remnants of the Court of Ullusa who returned to Exandria came to be known as syn'alfen, Elvish for wood elves, after the beauty of the forest in which they settled.
Notable people
- Yenlara Alderwreath: Sorceress who guided the remnants of this fallen society back to Exandria to create a new home
Culture
After the Court's fall, the elves were very inspired by the fey when building a new home in Gwessar.
History
The Court of Ullusa used a powerful and obscure ritual to transport many of them to the Feywild.
It is said that the elves lived peacefully among the fey and stayed in their realm for one generation, although the exact time is difficult to calculate in that plane. In any case, during that period the elves stayed together, creating a new society and rallying around Yenlara Alderwreath, a sorceress they admired for her strength and compassion. It was she who, when she deemed it appropriate, guided 400 elven survivors to Exandria, returning to a continent they found devoid of the civilization they once knew. Although the Court of Ullusa no longer existed, these survivors still had their culture, and they followed Yenlara's lead and created a new society for themselves, founding Syngorn and calling themselves the syn'alfen.
These wood elves have come into contact with the centaurs, descendants of the elves of Laphithas who died by the blood of the Ruiner and were resurrected by Corellon as a new race. Although some of the centaurs view the syn'alfen as distant cousins, others bear a grudge against them, recalling how the survivors of the Court of Ullusa fled to the Fey Realm rather than fight in the Calamity.
At some point after 736 PD the elves from Syngorn met again with their long lost relatives of the Orroyen tribes, and despite an initial suspicion, both societies have reestablished a cordial relationship between them; there was a break in their communications in late 810 PD and early 811 PD, during the Chroma Crisis, when Syngorn phased into the Feywild as a defensive response, but after their return they contacted the Orroyen elves again, hosting refugees fleeing conflicts caused by the Iron Authority in the Rifenmist Peninsula.
As of 836 PD the elves of Syngorn still remembered and revered their history, from the fall of the Court of Ullusa and escape to the Feywild to their return to the Material Plane; their obsession with elven culture and heritage, however, had produced in the past certain prejudices and xenophobic attitudes that only in recent years had started to change.
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