Setting:Tabula Gloria/For'Channar/The Village of Twaunae

Later in his reign, Margurim II had wanted to know about the neighboring forest of Phrennoack. If the Empire would have to expand, it would very likely have to take resources from the nearby forest. Fortunately, the Emperor knew of the Eltyain peoples living in the forest through folk lore and historical accounts from before the Founding of the Empire. He sent out a diplomatic expedition within to seek contact with the tribal people. The expedition lasted many years, given both the language and cultural barriers which separated Imperial and Eltyain. But it turned out to be time well spent. The head of the expedition Hobarth Twaun had reached an agreement with the Eltyain elders. The Eltyain would recognize the Empire's right to exist and would not harass them if they were to enter the forest. However, they would not be subject to Imperial law and there would be yearly limits of resources which the Empire can take from the forest's rim and surrounding areas.

Soon after the expedition returned, work got underway for building the foresting village of Twaunae in the Empire's southwest, along the Crenskaw Creek. It started as a sleepy little village and then grew as its workers started to work through the younger wood at the forest's rim, as per the agreement. Steadily, the town grew and grew, all until that limit threatened to be reached. Though the blessing of the Eltyain was important to the Empire as a whole, there were people who were settling in the new village who were concerned about the economic downturn which would almost inevitably happen were they to reach their treaty-bound limit. Many resigned to that fact, as the military was willing to enforce it, but there were some with stronger ambitions than that, sneaking into the forest to seek better wood before the limit was reached. Others even waited until the limit was reached and then went in to get their share without any competiton.

It just so happens that the Eltyain were also keeping tabs on the consumption themselves, as well as those who were transgressing the treaty, especially those who overconsume the forest's resources and those who push further than the approved zone of the treaty. Not subject to Imperial laws, the Eltyain (who had learned enough Imperial by now to get by) made it clear to the earlier trespassers that they would take their lives if they would not respect the stipulations of the treaty. And true to their word, certain people have gone missing from the village when they would not heed the first warning, never to be seen again.

Life in Twaunae has become a tense, but profitable life, the treaty keeping consumption at a limit to where the forest can regrow it without the assistance of Eltya, a fact that still keeps the Eltyain-Imperial alliance strong to this day.