Silvanesti Elves | DragonLance Saga
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- They are the most prideful and zealous of all elfs, the Silvanesti have a long and isolationist history, ripe with veins of treachery and war. Let's learn more about the history of the Silvanesti Elves! Buy Races of Ansalon: www.drivethrur...
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Transcript
They are the favored of E’li and yet they have known little more than torment in the later ages of Krynn, not entirely undeserved I might add.
Intro
Welcome to another DragonLance Saga episode. My name is Adam and today we are going to talk about Silvanesti Elves. I would like to take a moment and thank my collaborator patrons, the Heroes of the Lance, and invite you to consider becoming a patron or member of this channel by visiting the links in the description below. You can even pick up Dragonlance gaming materials using my affiliate link. I am referencing the Races of Ansalon sourcebook for this information. If I misspeak or leave something out, please let me know in the comments below.
Discussion
In The Foundation, in the Age of Dreams the gods populated Krynn with three races. Gilean created humans, Takhisis created Ogres and Paladine created Elves. It didn’t take long for the races to claim territory and form tribal communities. When the Ogres enslaved Humans in order to build their empire, the elves watched from the safety of their forests. The elves watched as the Orge nation split from within, as their slaves revolted and as the Ogres degenerated into monstrous visions of what they had once been. There is something poetic about the Ogres descent that is echoed in the elves' own descent, for as the ogre’s forms became twisted, the elves' home would follow.
In the Time of Light, in the Age of Dreams, Silvanos Goldeneye believed his race was superior to Ogres and Humans, and as he and his people watched their civilizations fall. He convened the first High Elven council, Sinthal-Elish, where they decided to scavenge the Ogres ruined cities and built their own civilization in the forest of Silvanesti, where they believe all life began. Silvanos became the first Speaker of the Stars and married a woman named Quinari. Not every elf was content to serve Silvanos, and a group led by Kagonos rejected Silvanos’ mandate to be a servant caste in Silvanesti. He turned his back on Silvanos and his new kingdom, and disappeared into the forests.
The elves quickly learned that the forests they claimed were already occupied by none other than the first creations, Dragons! Thus began the First Dragon War. Thousands of elves died in the battles and when they were on the verge of becoming extinct, the gods of magic, Lunitari, Solinari and Nuitari granted them the knowledge to create Dragonstones, rune bearing crystals that could trap a dragon’s soul. The elves used the stones with relish and ultimately defeated the dragons, casting their trapped souls into the abyss of Nemith-Otham, thus ensuring their survival. The elves then hid the stones underneath the Khalkist Mountains knowing they would be safe and forgotten.
There they lay, safe and forgotten, until the Dwarves began excavating their new mountain kingdom of Thorin. They decided to destroy the stones in the Lords of Doom, but were ambushed by Ogres on the way, and the Dragonstones were lost and the dragons released! The dragons unleashed hell on the elves. They commanded armies of Bakali and Ogres in the Second Dragon War and laid siege to Silvanesti. A trio of sorcerers called forth magic and with it demanded that Krynn itself swallow the Dragons. The magic ran wild and destroyed thousands of lives. The three sorcerers begged the gods for help and were removed by the gods of magic to create the Orders of High Sorcery. The magic would take centuries to finally subside.
Tension between Silvanesti borders and the Ergothian empire had been boiling up for centuries. When Silvanos died in 2515 PC, his son Sithel became the new Speaker of the Stars and erected the Palace of Quinari in memory of his father. Sithel has two sons, Sithas and Kith-Kanan; and three hundred years later, when their father and Speaker of the Stars is mysteriously killed in Silvanesti’s borders, they declare war on Ergoth. The Kinslayer War is known as one of the most disastrous conflicts in history with countless dead...
Thank you for watching today's Dragonlance Setting video Do you like the Silvanesti elves? Do you pronounce the elven nations differently? Leave a comment below.
I read it as Silva-nesti and Quali-nesti
My favorite Elven character is Solostaran
I've always been a little confused by how the elves are written in this setting. They're explicitly "good" but consistently written as evil. And every series basically uses them as punching bags and almost wipes them out.
I agree it’s strange.
Let's not forget the blip of the Dargonesti invading and laying siege to Silvanost itself.
I prefer the Qualinesti, but the Windrunners and Kirath are some of the best organizations out there.
This is new to me. I will be making a video about the Dimernesti and Dargonesti eventually, so I am not looking forward to it even more!
I havent read these books since the 90's. I'm remembering so much. Well done on these. I do have to say, there are a few names that Im certain you are mispronouncing, but as I've never heard the authors or anyone in any sort of authority speak them, I could be wrong.
Like You say "Salamnia" like Salamander, I hear "Soh-lahm-knee-uh." Or "Kanan". You pronounce it Kay-nan, like nanny. I hear "Kah-Non" "Kith Kah-non."
The authors said a long time ago that there is no official pronunciation, and to say the words as you read them. Regional dialects will change the way people speak, so feel free to say them however you like.
That works for me. Keep up the good work.
It's interesting hearing the different pronunciations. I've always much preferred the Qualinesti over the Silvanesti, but both groups can be a bit too uppity. My original DL character was a Qualinesti Red Robe - a choice which, as I recall, caused certain problems with the homeland :)
I can imagine the role playing... Thank you for watching!
For me the best elves were the wild elves descendents of kagonost.. (sorry they may have been spelled differently here in Italy)..
At least they were the most different from classic and Tolkien inspired..
Will wait for your video on them 😉
I will definitely talk about the Kagonesti!
I might be late to this video but thank you for making it i am trying to find little motivation why my Slivanesti Nuitari Socerer would want to go to war...
A dark elf? It could be revenge, seeking power, anything.
@@DLSaga did not think about this sounds great
I always pronounced Cyan as "Sian" and not "Kian" because of the chemical "cyanide"
The color Cyan as well... I have no idea why I hit it with a hard K sound. I just always have. I find myself going back and forth on pronunciations the more I am exposed to others'.
I always thought the Silvanesti were too prim and proper and thought very highly of themselves.
Yea, same. I really don't appreciate the baked in racism of the species.
@@DLSaga I always considered them being aristocratic.
You should make a dragonlance saga discord sever
Gotta be honest, I don’t even know what that means. Is it a chat program?
@@DLSaga Yes, discord is a chat application.
I'm view number 2! Good thing I like poop jokes!
lol Thanks for watching!
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Thanks for watching!