Factions
The Moonshadow Conclave
The elven forest's government, ecological stewardship and memory archive. Isolation once saved the elves; it is now letting the World Tree's sickness deepen inside institutions nobody questions.
- Elves
- World Tree
- Isolation
At a glance
| Nature | Governance, ecological stewardship and memory-keeping for the elven forest |
| Leader | Elf Queen Aethelind Vane Eridan |
| Core resources | The World Tree, ancient magical archives, spirit compacts, long-cycle ecological knowledge |
What it claims
The Conclave holds that the forest is not territory available for a nation to extract from, but a living commons that requires care across generations. Outsiders need a guide to vouch for them, and gathering, felling and casting are all restricted by season.
To elves who lived through the Divine Age and human expansion, these limits are not affectation. They are survival experience.
The contradiction at its centre
The Conclave’s problem is not that it protects the forest. It is that “never be hurt again” has slowly turned into “never give the outside world the chance to prove things have changed”.
The Three Seats — Root, Crown and Memory — are not one unified wall. Each has a real reason, which is exactly what makes this the hardest thing in the forest to fix.
Drawn from the KTM2 WorldDict. Only the public layer of each entry is published here.