Qualinesti Elves | DragonLance Saga
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- The wake of the Kinslayer Wars saw the seceding of many Silvanesti Elves to found the Qualinesti nation. Let’s take a closer look into the history of the Qualinesti Elves! Buy Races of Ansalon: www.drivethrur...
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Transcript
They are the result of a violent civil war and the desire to work with other races rather than remain isolationists. Let’s dig in a bit more...
Intro
Welcome to another DragonLance Saga episode. My name is Adam and today we are going to talk about Qualinesti 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 modules and sourcebooks from all editions for this information.
Discussion
Qualinesti Elves first came onto the Dragonlance scene in DL2 Dragons of Flame. They were the estranged family to Tanis Half-Elven, and we are immediately introduced to the royal family in Gilthanas, Laurana and Porthios who all play significant roles in the history of both the Qualinesti nation, and the War of the Lance. But we can go back much further than that as the Qualinesti have their roots in the Silvanesti nation. The grandsons of the founder of the Silvanesti nation, Silvanos, would be at the forefront of the Kinslayer Wars, which ended in the separations and mass migration of thousands of Silvanesti to found a new more tolerant and welcoming nation Qualinesti. Of course, this tolerance and welcoming spirit is still very subdued compared to non elven races. Sithas and Kith-Kanan would be born in a tumultuous time. The Ergothian Empire, the brutal, bestial creation, ruled by warlords and tyrants, was expanding all across Ansalon, pushing up against Silvanesti’s borders. The death of its founder, Ackal Ergot would see the ascension of Ackal Dermount who saw war as unprofitable and began trading with their neighbors. The first to meet this expansion were the Wildrunner elves, led by Kith-Kanan, while his brother Sithas was heir to their fathers throne.
Kith-Kanan, free from the political and social stigmas of the capital, traded openly with the human settlements, and some of the elves even joined in marriage with humans. This peaceful engagement between the races and nations made sense to Kith-Kannan in the name of peace, but his father Sithel, the Speaker of the Stars, was much more of a traditionalist and journeyed to the western borders at Kith-Kanan’s invitation to see for himself the strength of his son’s half-century long diplomacy. In a terrible accident Sithel was killed by a stray arrow during a hunt for sport in the borderlands, and the result was the Kinslayer Wars. Sithas became the Speaker of the Stars and declared war on Ergoth, promoting his twin Kith-Kanan to general. Now some believe the harrow’s origin was human assassins to remove the barrier of further Ergothian expansion, others place the murder directly at Sithas’ feet to discredit his brother and put himself on the throne.
The beginning of the Kinslayer War was simple in its xenophobia. Remove humans from Silvanesti’s lands. It became difficult as some of those humans were wed to elves. Those elves sided with Ergoth and Kith-Kanan would lead the war against his own kind and against those who connected with Ergoth through his diplomatic encouragement. The refugees saw this as their own nation turning against them. The war would ultimately end after forty years in a truce, built by Kith-Kanan. This truce would be upended for the elves, as the western elves sued for social change. This threatened a civil war. Sithas would conduct secret negotiation with Ergoth to subdue tensions, thus the Swordsheath Scroll was signed. Some saw this as the unity of races, but Kith-Kanan saw it as exile. The western Wildrunner elves founded the Qualinesti nation, in the ancient forest of Mithranhana, the original home of the Tree of life, out of sorrow and hope. Kith-Kanan vowed to turn this around and forge a more tolerant society. These would not be long lived ideals...
Thank you for watching today's Dragonlance Setting episode. What do you think about the Qualinesti elves? Leave a comment below.
The Minotaurs are doing wonderful work
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I would definitely save the Silvanesti. Even though they are stubborn and not fond of the other races their Isolationism makes it more likely they would survive.
Thank you for sharing!
look at the muscularity 2:15
Brom was great at that
I prefer the Qualinesti. I think what happened to both Qualinesti and the Silvanesti is awful. Destroying both elven nation's was a bit much. One or the other and have them both come together and need each other to salvage one of their realms. The elves of Ansalon are certainly a dying race. Low birth rate and the War of the Lance, Chaos war, 5th age problems and then post war of souls issues. I don't see how they can bounce back.
I'm with you. I wish there were novels after the Elven Exiles to work it out.
I felt like it was a bit heavy handed to oust both nations of Elves again. I like Alhana Starbreeze, since she is about the only character left from the original chronicles so I guess I would be team Silvanesti....
I agree with the excessiveness. I would like to see them regain both of their homelands.
Dragonlance elves have always been my favorite. They are isolationist jerks, so a group breaks off to join more with other people's ...they they become isolationist jerks over time. Then they back together after both being wrecked and finally start rising back up in a new Homeland. Elven Exiles was probably my favorite of those final trilogies that came out.
And with all that said. Porthios became easily one of my favorite more B-list characters in that series. I love his character arc from vain shallow prince to scarred rebel leader. From one of the most insufferable characters, to one of my favorites.
I'm a big fan of the Elven Exiled trilogy as well.
What books are gilthas in after the war of souls.... I love his story after tanis died
He had his own novel. His story picked up in the 3e modules and he had a cameo in Elven exiles I think…
@@DLSaga I just started dark disciple series, thank ya for the next hits leading, on my quest of the history of krynn🤘🏼
I've been catching up since I'm new here... haven't left a comment on every video I watched but did leave an Upthumb.
Loving this channel.😎
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