Editing In the Shadow of Elsport (section)

==History==
During the Old Kingdom, there was a grand city here named Ellendar.  Using shaping arcana, the Old Kingdom create a massive breakwater wall around the harbour, rising at least 20 feet above the waves.  Under the Empire of Thorns, Ellendar was the seat of the Tidewitch, a lieutenant of Delsha who was charged with controlling the Scatterstar Archipelago and the Seafolk.  When Delsha died in -387, the spies of the Tidewitch secured Delsha’s remains and brought them to Ellendar.  It was the Tidewitch who built Delsha’s tomb and created the urn of pure citrine.

For a time, the Tidewitch’s realm did quite well during the Shadow Wars, but eventually she was defeated when a Sorcerer King known as Coombwail attacked Ellendar with an avalanche before attacking with his mountainous darkfiends.  They killed the Tidewitch and her regents, enslaved a portion of the city, and left the rest of starve in the burnt ruins of the city.

For the remainder of the Shadow Wars, the ruins were controlled by a tribe of Merrow who took up residence in the harbour.  During the Great Rebellion, a force of Rhy-fen and Sea Folk laid siege to the Merrow there.  At the same time, Roger Feyfriend and his allies destroyed Coombwail and the Darkfiends of the southern highlands.  

Rikin was the first Sea Folk King of Aldis, and he founded the Guild Council. Late in his reign, he was interested in developing sea trade.  This lead him to an interest in rebuilding Ellendar.  Unfortunately, most of the ruins were a corrupt place, due to the work of the Tidewaitch, the Merrow of the Harbour, and Combwail.  He committed resources and adepts to begin the process of clearing the taint from the land and reclaiming the harbour for a new port.  The Sea Folk adepts were relatively successful at purging the bay of corruption, but the ruins remained in shadow.

The eccentric Queen Larai continued Rikin’s work.  After various negotiations, the Fey Lord of the Peaks agreed to sent Baron Plunge and a contingent of fey down to the ruins of Ellendar to purify it and remove the corruption from the land.  It took a generation, but eventually the ruins of Ellendar had been retaken by nature, and then allowed the mortals to build a new city, Elsport.  In exchange, Larai agreed to cede a portion of the highlands to the Fey, creating the Faerie Peaks.  The small communities at the base of the peaks became masters of understanding the ways of the Fey, and how to appease them.

===Elsport Today===
Though not as wealthy or as large as Garnit, Elsport is nevertheless an active port city.  It is the political and economic hub for the Scatterstar Archipelago and most of the Southern Coasts.  Additionally, it has become a staging ground for the Kingdom’s navy as it attempts to keep track of threats such as pirates and Jarzoni privateers.