At the spark of the world,
The Elan also created a group of powerful primordial fey. They are known by many names. The people of Kingsland call them the Elan Lords and the Frisians call them the Vergevordered. Whatever they are called, they are powerful fey that embody a specific natural presence or ideal within the world.
These “Elan Lords” are simply a force coalesced into form. They act upon whatever Elan fuels them. Their powers are vast beyond comprehension, and luckily they spend most of the centuries dormant. No one is sure what sparks them to rise, but when they do, it is felt throughout the world. They have only been sighted a few times over the course of human history and never at the same time. Some powerful Voidshapers have tried unsuccessfully in the past to find the location of these dormant beings and raise them from their slumber.
Varghesh, the Lord of the Deeps
One of the few Elan Lords to ever be sighted recently, Varghesh awoke from his slumber off the coast of the Verboten Eislandes in Frisia sometime in the year 1223 AC. During that year, the Frisian Merchant Prince, Mauritz van Goggen assembled a gigantic fleet based at the City of Valken on Syren Eisland. This fleet was to enter Kingsland's waters as a show of force in an attempt to control sea trade.
A swift wind storm began stirring in the area around the island early in the morning the fleet was to set sail. The sailors aboard the ships claimed that the island itself was groaning as if under great duress and pressure. Suddenly a massive maelstrom erupted near the island. It began dashing the ships together as they spun to their impending doom into the center of the whirling pool. From the epicenter, a huge beast slowly arose from the maelstrom and began careening and smashing the ships as they spun. A few sailors claimed that it swallowed whole
ships in its gaping maw.
Survivors described the beast as at least two hundred feet tall that looked like the cross between a giant whale and a catfish. Magisters that witnessed the event from the ships were blinded by the Elan radiating from it. The Elan was claimed to have been sensed and seen
from neighboring islands, the nearest being 7 miles away.
When the beast had finally returned to the depths and the maelstrom had stopped, 167 ships had been completely destroyed, over 1000 Frisian sailors and marines were dead, drowned, or missing, and the City of Valken itself had been obliterated, and much of the Syren Eisland was sucked beneath the waves taking another 400 or so people living on the outskirts with it. The Donkerwasser is what the area is now called.
This later was recorded as a sighting of an Elan Lord. No one knows where it came from or where it went or even why it showed up, but one thing is certain; Serrus felt its power in the brief couple of hours it was active. In the end, Prince van Goggen had gone bankrupt due to the failure of the fleet and he died in obscurity.
