Elves

When the Undying Court eliminated the line of Vol and presented ultimatums to its allies, many elves — whether aligned the fallen necromancers or not— chose to leave for Khorvaire, sailing north and away from their tropical home. Many used the Rushing River to travel north from Kraken Bay to Lake Cyre and eventually onward to Scions Sound, where they encountered the full range of early human civilizations on Khorvaire. While most elves ended up settling in what is now Aundair, the elves of Thrane are an important conservative force in Thranish culture.
In Thrane, the typical elf lives to well over four hundred years, with the median age being two centuries. As such, the oldest elves remember the disaster of Joliana’s Crusade in 558 YK, when Queen Joliana reached the throne of Galifar after ruling Thrane. Her attempt to make the Church of the Silver Flame (then led by Keeper Valiron Silverthorn) the state religion of the Kingdom of Galifar ended in the second year of her reign with her mysterious and untimely demise, thwarting a possible civil war that could’ve torn the kingdom apart. When Keeper Kaith Serrain declared a similar goal in 914 YK, the elves of Thrane proved to be some of the most ardent critics. Today, while the elves of Thrane are as likely as anyone else to follow the Church of the Silver Flame, they often have a royalist bent, rejecting the idea that a theocracy is the best way for the Church to accomplish its mission.