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Ibevar is a land of Elves. Many claim this but unlike the rest we have remained pure, and carried on the traditions and beliefs of the original elves that landed here when Munas Moonsinger found our way home. We proved our bravery and skill fighting the Sorceror-King and were given our lands as a gift for the service we provided. While the other Elven lands interbred with humans creating the Silver families we chose to keep our bloodline pure. In the mountain near us lies the refuge which is where the oldest and wisest remain, a testament to our long history. We now find ourselves in a chaotic time as the prince is without an heir and well past the age to make one. This will create a crisis as we do not have anyone to rule after. Our religious crisis regarding our old Gods who are likely dead will quickly be coming to a head. This is a time of uncertainty for Ibevar, we must be careful to secure our future.
Traditions
Infantry Combat Ability +10%
Attrition for Enemies +1
Ambitions
Monarch Administrative Skill +1
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Elven-Eyed Archers
Discipline +5%
Land Fire Damage +10%
Defense of the Forlorn Vale
Fort Defense +15%
The Blaiddscal
Land Leader Shock +1
Ideas from the Courts of Men
Institution Embracement Cost +10%
Ibevari Artisans
Production Efficiency +10%
The Elven State
Yearly Absolutism +0.30
Elven Drill
Yearly Army Tradition +0.50
Army Drill Decay Modifier -10%
The Silent Repose is an elven monastery on the peaks of the Havoral Divide, built by Arda of Núrael. It is said that the everchanging world of progress can impact an elf's mental state due to their incredibly long lifespans, and as such seek a place to retire and live a monastic life away from the outside world.
The artisans of the Repose produce a variety of classical elven goods, in traditions that often predate the elves' time on the Remnant Fleet. Most notably, they produce perfumes and incense made from herbs whose seeds their ancestors had taken from Aelantir. Historians consider it remarkable that these were able to survive the near-starvation of the Luneteín's inhabitants. This uniqueness created a demand that would see their product highly valued across all of Cannor, even after comparable botanical specimens had been located in Aelantir.
On the site of the Silent repose it is proposed that we build a great temple and city the like of which has never been seen before. Here we can use it to rally Elves around the proud and beautiful traditions of our people as well as be a place for our elders to give good guidance based off of their expertise that comes only through a long life lived fully.
Antirionn is said to be a beautiful city, with bronze-capped spires jutting up from the mountain's slopes, its sleepy streets lined with bountiful gardens filled with beautiful plants from all across Halann, kept in bloom by the work of its mages. In an effort to satiate any wanderlust that its elders might develop, Ibevar sought to bring all the novelties of the world to the Repose.
Central to the city is the Forebears' Temple, which houses the heirlooms of Ibevar's greatest elders and dead lineages. With a beautiful facade displaying scenes of Ibevar and its people's histories, the marbled temple is completed by the great statue of Munas Moonsinger at its center, a perfect exemplification of Erelas Starseeker's syncretic practice.
Ibevar still holds onto its faith of old for the most part despite the reality of our Gods having died is plain enough to see. There are calls for us to adopt a new outlook with our worship and forgoe to old in place of worship of Munas Moonsinger, the great ancestor who lead us to this land when we were lost. To do this would require us pushing out the voices of the oldest Elves who demand our traditions be kept. There is no use in this, we must adopt the Regents Court fully and build a great temple to proclaim our faith and build new traditions and belief.
While physically frailer than most humans, Ibevar elves are known for their keen senses, especially sight. Due to this, Ibevar produces some of the best marksmen in Cannor, each capable of pinning down foes with deadly efficiency. Though originally bowmen, these laid the foundation for later sharpshooters, who even surpassed the range of their forebears after the adoption of rifled firearms. The Blaíddscal is noted for producing an aggressive style of martial command atypical of most elven armies.
Varilleni, a dry red wine produced in the Varillen region of Ibevar is of special note due to the finer varieties possessing magical properties that adapt the wine to the drinker's palette, and produce a distinct glow when infused with magic. Though originally created as a mark to prove the legitimacy and quality of the finer varieties, it quickly usurped other features of the wine to become its most notable aspect.
Núraelic Linen is one of the more notable cloths in Ibevar. While some silk is produced in the area, the flaxen fields of Thanas have long supplied Ibevar with its most sought-after cloth. While Esmari fashion was often considered the great producer of scandals, the sheer cloth of the thinner summer styles produced by Núrael's tailors have been flustering courts across Cannor for centuries.
Antirionnic Incense, which to the modern day produces the most prestigious brands of Cannor arose from the monastic traditions of the Silent Repose, in growing traditional Aelantiri herbs that had been cultivated on the Remnant Fleet for a millennia. Following the Repose's transition into one of Cannor's most serene cities, a product that had largely been limited to the elfrealms and
Ainéthíl Coursers and the Cursewood Draft are hardy and stubborn breeds with distinct silver or bluish coats adapted to the dense forests and unforgiving terrain of the Forlorn Vale, with the former having notably grown in popularity as warfare became more loud and brutal, with the advent of firearms thanks to its unflinching nature.
Lansday is celebrated on the 8th of Nerament, as in the rest of Cannor. A particular regional tradition exists along the Hehainé wherein little replicas of the Luneteín, the ship captained by the line of Ibevar's rulers, as well as the other members of the remant fleet are set adrift on the river. These are created to varying degrees of quality by any from the nation's children to the finest woodcarvers are set upon the river, creating a little remnant fleet that, thanks to a little magic, keeps its course all the way to Oldpassage.
The Cogaulúis Ball was imported by Farrani refugees, but adapted to Ibevari society. While the barges along the Hehainé remain consistent with a toned-down recreation of the Esmari river parties, those off the banks of the nation's rivers often decorate the banks of local lakes, ponds, or creeks with festive adornments, creating floating platforms, or simply taking a dip in the waters and enjoying the warm spring weather of Silversight.
The Thanas Circuit is a yearly series of races centered in the rural lands around Thanas and other locations across Cannor. Originating as a way for Cartmakers to test the durability of their creations, the races have grown to be one of the largest draws of tourism to the region, and created a prominent center of development for horseless carts, as artificers from around the world gather to test their creations at the sport's birthplace.
Ibevar's prestigious military academy, located in the namesake city that sprung up in its surroundings. Its training brings the Ibevari out of line with many other elven realms, as its officer cadets are intensely trained in fencing and military command in such as fashion as to create an especially aggressive martial style.
A city centered around tailoring and the production of cloth, which often sets the fashion trends for the rest of the Elfrealm, often seen as the cultural center of the nation. It was historically noted as the main refuge of Farrani elves, who helped to shape the city's identity as a counter-cultural center in opposition to elven traditionalism, and made it one of the first areas of the elfrealm to convert during the Ibevar Reformation.
A wine-producing region named for the city of Varillen, located south of Ibevar along the Hehainé river. It is notable for producing the Varilleni, a dry red which, in its finest variants, glows when exposed to magic, and adapts itself to the palette of the drinker.
Standing upon the ruins of Vardoced, the capital city of Ibevar was the first elven settlement to be properly established in the region. It would come to house wonders such as the Great Temple of Ibevar and Casna Aesa.
Following the Annexation of Silent Repose, a grand city to house Ibevar's elders was constructed around the old monastery, becoming a center for traditional elven culture and crafts. While never as trendy as Núrael, it remains to traditional culture what the fast city on the Hehainé is to the novel and modern.
Ibevar is largely filled with heavy, dense forests reminscent of the Greatwoods or Inner Castanor, which, along with the Havoral Divide and regions like Larthán and Carodir's Pass have made invading the region quite an undesirable prospect. The few wars that have made it onto Ibevari soil have demonstrated the elves' extensive knowledge of their home terrain, with guerilla warfare using finely honed ambush tactics developed in border skirmishes with the Farrani helping to maintain the realm's sovereignty into modernity.
The heartland of the Elfrealm lies along the Hehainé river, with its most populous and prosperous cities in a straight run from Núrael to Ár Éinnas, the whole of it densely forested even to the modern day. Appealing to the eye of the romantic, from city to country, the whole of Ibevar is shaped with an aesthetic that maintains the natural landscape, and holds some of the last old-growth forest outside the Deepwoods and those recesses of the Greatwoods that have not been marred by the development of the Northern League's industry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The area was uninhabited at the time of the War of the Sorcerer King following the destruction of Great Cardest in 871, wherein the sorcery of Dunicha the Augur Queen blighted the land, and forced the Cardesti and Castanorians from it, riling the already hostile magics of the disconnected remnant of the Deepwoods and rendering it too hostile for human settlement.
Decide the future of our belief and religion
Protect the Retreat for our elders at all cost
Keep our bloodline pure and be a haven for Elves
Decide to work with the Empire or against them
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