History of the Unified Empire

Eventually, Elnar the Esteemed, who was the newly crowned king of that region (called Tuskaryn by its new elvish rulers), heard word of her rising influence and set out to see for himself the source of all the tales, making a royal progress through the area and stopping at the shrine to pay homage. The momentary stopover stretched and stalled, until Elnar received a vision from Corellon that he should build his new capital at that spot.

Settling into her dual roles of High Priestess of Corellon and Queen of Tuskaryn, Caestrianna experienced a number of visions and revelations from Corellon, which she wrote down in a series of works collectively called the Book of Stars. In addition to the tenets of the faith, she included a number of prophecies in the book, including: one regarding her death, another her resurrection after eight years of stasis, another the founding of a holy Unified Empire, and another regarding the ultimate reincarnation of her and her husband to join together and lead the Empire once more into immortality.

In the middle of summar of the thirteenth year of the Kingdom of Tuskaryn, a team of orcish, goblin, and hobgoblin commandoes infiltrated the royal residences and assassinated the King and Queen. In the reflexive pogroms that followed, many of the goblinoid species settled in areas of Taerneval were slaughtered or driven from their homes.