Elvish Glades

The Elvish Glades is a meadow within a forest just south of the Silver Mountains. There houses a pond like no other. It's water can temporally cut the flow of alchemy and is used during childbirth were Snow Elven maidens can safely deliver their children. Before such a discovery was made. it meant near certain death for the mother with a survival rate of around 40 percent.

Discovery of the Pond

Back when the Snow Elves were a new race to the world, not much was known about them until implications with onset early death from spontaneous combustion shocked the Elves of the woods. it was theorized that the area they lived in was too warm which perhaps exacerbated the problem. After a house burned down killing several children, it was decided that the white haired elves must leave for the safety of not only themselves but also for the regular wood elves who risked being around them. Around the same time it became apparent that their was another flaw in their evolution... reproducing. The first few deaths of mothers shocked the group and efforts were made to try and come up with a solution but after many failed efforts it was almost destined that the new race were not destined to live. That is, until a remedy was found.

A Dwarf from the Elven Kingdom of Val Gorm presented poised a suggestion that a pregnant maiden try bathing in the spring atop the hill of Tara. A sacred pond of undrinkable water found to have mystical properties. The idea worked and the child was born and mother recovered without any complications. The race was saved but there was a caveat. The hill of Tara and the pond within was further south and even closer to the searing heat of the desert. whilst it brought hope, it was not a viable solution.

Around this time Darui had set of in search of a suitable dwelling for a new home and his travels took him to the northern reaches through the Alpine and Asher woodland and finally to the dwarven tundra of Val Florin. It was there he learned of a cave, similar to the one found at the hill of Tara close by. With that information he set his sights for home with the news.

Destruction of the Pond