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Name: Skael-in-the-Shadow
Leader's Name: Skael-in-the-Shadow
Race: Shadow Elves
Color: Blue-Gray
General Location: Forested mountains
Fluff: A powerful Sh'dar-Kai wizard, after a life of study and practice of the arcane, set about retiring. He raised a tower of stone in the mountains to enjoy a relaxing life without being a pawn in the intrigues of the wider world. Though the world of men moved on, there were those who did not forget tales of a mage with the power over life and death, and desperate souls sought out this semi-mythical figure. Those who did manage to find the tower were not disappointed. Skael-in-the-Shadow did not turn a blind eye to those in need whom he could easily help, but also did not desire to attract attention to his continued existence with sensational tales of a charitable mage. The ill, old, and maimed would receive life anew, emerging from the Clone jars of the wizard's keep in youthful, healthy, and long-lived Sh'dar Kai bodies but in return they would swear an oath of fealty to Skael-in-the-Shadow and live forevermore in the magically shadowed forests of Skaelwood. The vast majority of the population are required to study either arcane arts, with these bulk of these merely crafting tokens of Unseen Servant for 8 hours a day, which in turn powers much of the manual labor of the economy. Those with no talent for the arcane will instead be shoehorned into service as Druids to manage the Skaelwood and bring in food and preserve the balance. If a person still has no talent for either the arcane or the divine, they will be inducted into the Shadow Javelins, a military order of shock troops.
Leader Fluff: Skael-in-the-Shadow was born a Wood Elf four and a quarter centuries ago. As an adult, he served as a priest of a little-known knowledge God, studying the arcane alongside his religious studies. Because the power of his church was so little, it attached itself to larger, more important churches throughout the realm. As a result, Skael was pledged in fealty as a liason-levy, and soon found himself in the seemingly endless wars of the Human realms as a healer. Over the years, his power and reknown grew, with his church greedily abusing their supposed control over Skael. Unsurprisingly, Skael renounced the church, and pursued his arcane interests full time. He led a storied campaign in one of the Realm Wars against the side his corrupt church had thrown in with. At the climax of the war, when victory became inevitable, Skael staged his own death by sacrificing himself. Unbeknownst to his comrades, however, Skael had created a Clone jar, and six months later, he was reborn as a young Sh'dar-Kai. He journeyed far into the wilderness, and began to use his vast arcane talents to carve out a place for himself to enjoy a life of peace and quiet.
