The Royal Crypt of Falon'mor
To the right of The King's Temple, and staying inside the crater wall, is the Royal Crypt of Falon'mor, a cavern so vast that not even a priest of Dromae could fill it with light. Those brave enough to climb the stairs can peer into tombs that line the left wall, over forty, each with a collection of sarcophagi and assorted treasures but it is the darkness on the right that draws the eye. Lamplight flickers over regal forms and glittering slabs of script seemingly floating in the void.
It was a sergeant with the imperial regiment sent to aid the priests that discovered the jewel of the chamber. Bored with the duty the sergeant took themselves off to poke around and found a small room with a dusty machine, being the sort to twist knobs and pull levers the sergeant did just that. Excited shouts drew him back into the chamber where he discovered that a series of lamps set into the wall had sprung to life banishing the shadows and sending a warm light into every corner. The exposed wall of the cavern was lined with several hundred statues, all extremely detailed and standing on marble plinths jutting from the rock. The explorers immediately assumed they were elves but were soon surprised to learn that they were Marsh Elves.
It took the scholars among the group a while to uncover the identity of the esteemed multitude but they soon attached them to The Citadel of Min Falon, an ancient fortress that stands abandoned on the edge of The Thousand Lakes region.
At first it was believed that the forms were elven since they had distinctive pointed ears. The first eyes to look upon the statues for millennia and a half were mostly Human but there was one elf among the priestly delegation, a Faran priestess. When she looked upon the ancient faces she knew straight away that they were not of her race. The features were too bold and despite the statues being several yards high, the scale implied they were smaller. Ancestors of the Marsh Elves, known as the Niklin, lined the walls, and their skeletons rested in the stone coffins. It soon became apparent that the civilisation that had built the temples and towers of the Zentos belonged to the Marsh Elves and not the humans or high elves as had long been believed. When the news reached the imperial court it was immediately repressed at the request of the elven ministers. The high elves had long claimed that the marsh elves were a descendent of theirs and that anything to do with the smaller race was their business only. The fact that they rely upon Marsh Elf slaves to supply their homeland with labour was not lost on anyone in the court.
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