As I am slowly compiling and organizing notes, I’m trying to come up with some systems of cataloguing. I’m going to come at this the way I would someone who is compiling a detailed atlas that not only covers the maps, but the peoples, cultures and legends. In the same way that people who study older history books relay the original text, they also search for the most complete history that they can reconstruct based on the information at hand. It is with this in mind that I will now present an introduction to The Elder Folk.

On my first search through my father’s papers, I am only able to find a few pages dedicated to the Elder Folk as a people. Most of what I found was related to their language and their influence on the Humans of Alsbaln. Which was similar to the influence of Latin in Europe. Based on the legend of how the Elder Folk came to Asbaln, we can assume that they spread throughout the land, although their goal was not to overthrow or conquer, rather than to act as protectors of the people from the Evil forces and their agents in the world.

Based on what I’ve read so far, Shirella, Lhoran and Andrthn Denclyan are the most prominent of the Elder Folk, but I will have to research more to find out more about them and as I discover more about these people, I will provide more articles about them.

Below I will provide part of the Legend of the Elder Folk (as the full story contains spoilers for the novels which are currently being published.)

This is a mere portion of the long legends that have come down to us from those days of old, a part of the legend of the Elder Folk, the Elffan, who are remembered sometimes as the Elves.

Long ago, ere Mortal Man walked any part of the world, the Elffan lived in Elfanthum, the Elder Home, beyond the Western Sea, and they were happy. Then, the Darkness Beyond spawned its terrors, and the Lords of Darkness came forth, hating all that were not subject to the Dark Will.

Long and long the battle was fought, until the Elder Folk and the Dark Ones made a bargain whereby the Evil Lords went to the far lands where men had come but lately. In anger, then, the Guardians of the world rose and banished the Elder Ones, one and all, from their home until they should succeed in driving the Dark Ones from the world.

In sorrow, they went forth, and worked greatly to aid the mortal folk, making alliances with them, until at last the Darkness came forth again. However, one of the Elder Ones, Andrythn Denclyan, braved the far seas to plead with the Guardians of the World for aid, and those relented enough to promise that the Dark Ones could take no active part in the coming war, but must work through their agents and allies on the Earth.

It is after this legend that the first novel The Guardian of the Sword takes place.