Military action
Elves refuse to aid the humans against their own kin, and a brutal, bloody war ensues before the invading elf armies are thrown back into the badlands.
Edler Iliac pleads with the elves for help fighting their insane brethren, but the elves balk at killing their own kind and side with the deranged armies, though they offer no official support beyond a statement of recrimination against the humans for daring to kill elves. Reinforcement volunteers arrive to refresh the numbers of the elves, and the two armies go on a rampage. Eventually, the humans fought them back to the wilderness west of the Barrier Mountains where they again experienced starvation and wilderness attrition.