Editing Athel Loren (section)

==When the Elves arrived==
When the elves came to colonize the old world by setting up a colony on would-be-bretonnia, they found the forest and did some pretty gay stuff with the treekin since they were a lot nicer back then. Then demons showed up and fucked up everything, reducing most of the land covered by roots from the oak of ages to shreds. See the thing is that the forest once had the root covered everywhere, from athel loren to even the land of norsca (before it was occupied by chaos rape vikings) but demons fucked all that up that [[Imperium of Man|the forest is but a shell of its former selves]]. After the war with demons, the various living tree creatures were kind of butthurt by this event to the point that they were able to evolve into more of a warlike form that is capable of fighting outsiders. The event also draws the forest and the elves closer than ever before since they were butt fuck buddies at war.

Then the [[Dwarf]] and the [[High Elves (Warhammer Fantasy)|High Elf]] kingdoms had a [[The War of the Beard (The War of Vengeance)|big war the Elves called the War of the Beard and Dwarfs call the War of Vengeance]], which fucked over the Elf colonists who were still on the continent (thank you Malekith!). The rest of the elves of Ulthuan abandoned them to go save themselves from [[Dark Elves (Warhammer Fantasy)|a bunch of backstabbing cunts]] so the disgruntled colonists decided to go find a new home. The spirits of the forest, particularly the giant treeman named [[Durthu]], had been calling the colonial Elves in a way that affected their most primitive instincts, drawing them into its depths as allies tied to the forest.

Dwarf culture heavily involves [[Book of Grudges|Grudgekeeping]], or recording EVERY sleight and paying it back. Although the victory of the Dwarves saw them strike out the Grudge that began the war, many Grudges remained from actions during the war. Being a bunch of racists, the Dwarves saw the remaining Elves as the targets for revenge and pursued them into the wilds. The ruling Spirits of Athel Loren, a rather moody Fey butterfly queen named [[Ariel]] (actually the mother and main goddess of all Elves, [[Isha]]) and an outright hostile Satyr king named [[Orion]] (father of all Elves and a god of the hunt [[Kurnous]]), decided not to instantly kill all the Elves and instead lead them to the Oak of Ages, the heart of the forest. When they got there the Forest talked to them, told them about how it wants them to stay and protect it during the winter. The treemen however regretted the invitation as they were massacred by Dwarves, and came to resent all fauna as a result.