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 The first elves in the game world were of extra-planar origin, hailing from the [[Land of Silvanie]] on [[Outer Earth]], a vast flat disc drifting through the [[Astral Plane|Astral Sea]]. Though they too were hunter-gatherers, legend holds that four great '''[[Grey Elf|grey elves]]''' led a single tribe — known as the Anduin People — from Silvanie to Earth around 35,000 years ago.
-They arrived as refugees, pursued across the planes by the [[Drow Elf|drow elves]], who would not enter the world themselves until well after the Palaeolithic had ended. Under the leadership of the Anduin, elvish civilisation flourished. Relations with early humans were peaceful, with the two peoples exchanging tools and practices. Archery is widely credited to elvish ingenuity, while human [[Shamanism|shamanic]] beliefs played a role in shaping early grey elvish magical thought.
+They arrived as refugees, pursued across the planes by the [[Drow Elf|drow elves]], who would not enter the world themselves until well after the Palaeolithic had ended. Under the leadership of the Anduin, elvish civilisation flourished. Relations with early humans were peaceful, with the two peoples exchanging tools and practices. [[Archery (technology)|Archery]] is widely credited to elvish ingenuity, while human [[Shamanism|shamanic]] beliefs played a role in shaping early grey elvish magical thought.
 This cooperation led to the rise of the ancient elvish kingdom of Beringia, which endured for five millennia before being destroyed during the last glacial period. Its fall ushered in a long elvish dark age. Of the legendary “nine tribes” of Beringia, eight survived the cataclysm. The ninth — the Grey Tribe — was lost. It is said they held the ice at bay for twenty-five generations until a final disaster overwhelmed them. Some believe the Grey Shamans attempted to return to Outer Earth in their last moments and perished in the attempt, for no trace of them has been found beyond the world.

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-Emerging as hundreds of distinct tribes, these peoples established a sweeping network of non-human cultures that extended from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific. Many of these early societies developed into complex, highly organised groups with systems of leadership, oral tradition and ritual warfare. Though primitive in appearance, their cohesion and numbers would one day pose existential threats to human civilisation in later ages. Their spiritual life centred around totemism and the worship of powerful animal spirits, which guided their tribal identities and encoded moral and social law.
+Emerging as hundreds of distinct tribes, these peoples established a sweeping network of non-human cultures that extended from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific. Many of these early societies developed into complex, highly organised groups with systems of leadership, oral tradition and ritual warfare. Though primitive in appearance, their cohesion and numbers would one day pose existential threats to human civilisation in later ages. Their spiritual life centred around totemism and the worship of powerful [[Animal|animal]] spirits, which guided their tribal identities and encoded moral and social law.
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-The '''Palaeolithic Period''' spans from roughly 200,000 years ago to 12,000 <small>BC</small>. It is divided into two broad epochs: the Lower Palaeolithic, covering the stretch from 200,000 to approximately 40,000 years ago; and the Upper Palaeolithic, beginning thereafter and continuing until the dawn of agriculture and early civilisation. Throughout the Lower period, the only known sentient species inhabiting the Earth of the game world were members of the '''[[Human Race & Physiology|human race]]''', who dwelt primarily in the regions of East Africa. It was not until the late stages of this era that the first primeval '''[[Elf Race & Physiology|elves]]''' appeared, their earliest traces emerging in the eastern expanse of the Anduin region, deep in the Siberian frontier, sometime between 50,000 and 45,000 <small>BC</small>.
+The '''Palaeolithic Period''' spans from roughly 200,000 years ago to 12,000 <small>BC</small>. It is divided into two broad epochs: the Lower Palaeolithic, covering the stretch from 200,000 to approximately 40,000 years ago; and the Upper Palaeolithic, beginning thereafter and continuing until the dawn of agriculture and early civilisation. Throughout the Lower period, the only known sentient species inhabiting the Earth of the game world were members of the '''[[Human Race & Physiology|human race]]''', who dwelt primarily in the regions of East Africa. It was not until the late stages of this era that the first primeval '''[[Elf Race & Physiology|elves]]''' appeared, their earliest traces emerging in the eastern expanse of the [[Anduin]] region, deep in the Siberian frontier, sometime between 50,000 and 45,000 <small>BC</small>.
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 With the arrival of the Upper Palaeolithic, further divergence in sentient species begins to appear. Though exact dates are uncertain, it is widely believed that the earliest '''[[Svirfneblin|svirfneblin]]''', or deep gnomes, began to manifest beneath the crust of Europe between 30,000 and 27,000 <small>BC</small>, forming isolated pockets of underground communities far from the surface world. Roughly ten millennia later, between 20,000 and 18,000 <small>BC</small>, the first "cave humanoids" began to emerge across the uplands and valleys surrounding the [[Kodar Mountains]], likely radiating outward from hidden grottoes and fissures. These included primitive strains of '''[[Bugbear|bugbears]]''', '''[[Ogre|ogres]]''' and '''[[Orc|orcs]]''', each developing in semi-isolated contact zones.

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	With the advance of the great glacial ice sheet across Eurasia, a spatial rupture occurred in the region of the eastern Kodar range, opening what came to be known as the '''Kodar Gate''': an [[Gate (planar doorway)\|Astral Gate]] linking [[Outer Earth]] to the [[Prime Material (inner plane)\|Prime Material Plane]]. Through this rift, over a span of generations, waves of non-human peoples — primarily of '''[[Orcish (race)\|orcish]]''' and '''[[Goblinish (race)\|goblinish]]''' descent — crossed into the world and spread rapidly across the vast Asian continent.		With the advance of the great glacial ice sheet across Eurasia, a spatial rupture occurred in the region of the eastern Kodar range, opening what came to be known as the '''Kodar Gate''': an [[Gate (planar doorway)\|Astral Gate]] linking [[Outer Earth]] to the [[Prime Material (inner plane)\|Prime Material Plane]]. Through this rift, over a span of generations, waves of non-human peoples — primarily of '''[[Orcish (race)\|orcish]]''' and '''[[Goblinish (race)\|goblinish]]''' descent — crossed into the world and spread rapidly across the vast Asian continent.

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	Emerging as hundreds of distinct tribes, these peoples established a sweeping network of non-human cultures that extended from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific. Many of these early societies developed into complex, highly organised groups with systems of leadership, oral tradition and ritual warfare. Though primitive in appearance, their cohesion and numbers would one day pose existential threats to human civilisation in later ages. Their spiritual life centred around totemism and the worship of powerful animal spirits, which guided their tribal identities and encoded moral and social law.		Emerging as hundreds of distinct tribes, these peoples established a sweeping network of non-human cultures that extended from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific. Many of these early societies developed into complex, highly organised groups with systems of leadership, oral tradition and ritual warfare. Though primitive in appearance, their cohesion and numbers would one day pose existential threats to human civilisation in later ages. Their spiritual life centred around totemism and the worship of powerful animal spirits, which guided their tribal identities and encoded moral and social law.

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	The first elves in the game world were of extra-planar origin, hailing from the [[Land of Silvanie]] on [[Outer Earth]], a vast flat disc drifting through the [[Astral Plane\|Astral Sea]]. Though they too were hunter-gatherers, legend holds that four great '''[[Grey Elf\|grey elves]]''' led a single tribe — known as the Anduin People — from Silvanie to Earth around 35,000 years ago.		The first elves in the game world were of extra-planar origin, hailing from the [[Land of Silvanie]] on [[Outer Earth]], a vast flat disc drifting through the [[Astral Plane\|Astral Sea]]. Though they too were hunter-gatherers, legend holds that four great '''[[Grey Elf\|grey elves]]''' led a single tribe — known as the Anduin People — from Silvanie to Earth around 35,000 years ago.

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 == Kodar Gate Cultures ==
-With the glacial ice sheet's cocooning of the Eurasian continent, a rift in natural space occurred that opened the '''Kodar Gate,''' an [[Gate (Astral doorway)|Astral Gate]] between Outer Earth and the [[Prime Material (inner plane)|Prime Material Plane]].  For generations until the gate closed, some thousands of years later, various humanoid peoples — [[Orcish (race)|orcish]] and [[Goblinish (race)|goblinish]] — spread outwards into the Asian continent.
+With the glacial ice sheet's cocooning of the Eurasian continent, a rift in natural space occurred that opened the '''Kodar Gate,''' an [[Gate (planar doorway)|Astral Gate]] between Outer Earth and the [[Prime Material (inner plane)|Prime Material Plane]].  For generations until the gate closed, some thousands of years later, various humanoid peoples — [[Orcish (race)|orcish]] and [[Goblinish (race)|goblinish]] — spread outwards into the Asian continent.
 Consisting of hundreds of tribes, these formed a string of non-human cultures stretching from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean.  Many formed complex social structures that would later threaten to destroy human lands much nearer to the modern day.  Their belief systems depended largely upon totemism and animal worship.