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Solène, Half-Elf Nun & Archivist, Order of St. Mathilde

"Scholars from the Vatican and the Convocation sit at the same table in this library. Neither has ever thanked the other for the salt." - Solène

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Among the Frozen Peaks: The Tanaina Ht’ana of Alaska, and Elvish Rights in the Courtroom

The lawyer for the oil company had prepared for a week. He had maps, survey records and a historian ready to explain what the land had been used for in 1867, when the United States bought Alaska from Russia. Then…

Shikarapura

Shikarapura, the Nation the Dark Elves Built

In 1392 the elves of Europe voted on their future, and the side that lost walked away. Three centuries later, in a valley between Nepal and Bhutan, the descendants of the losing side built a country. Shikarapura has no airport,…

Aldermark

After the Empire: Aldermark, the Last Elven Empire, in Its First Post-Imperial Decade

In 2018 an elderly elf died peacefully in his garden in the forest town of Elchwood. He was 847 years old. Fifteen years earlier, as Emperor Elydrian IV, he had signed the treaty that ended five centuries of elvish rule…

Aldermark

Bastille Saint-Estelle: The Elvish Town That Chose Both Faiths

The monastery bells in Bastille ring at six every morning and six every evening, and they have done so for five hundred years. The sound crosses the whole town in under three seconds. A nun in the herb garden can…

Weeping Island

Weeping Island: The Island Where We Laid Down Our Grief

Weeping Island raises three questions, and they come in order. The first is the name. The second is why anyone lives there. The third is what the Royal Air Force is guarding. The answers are classified, which on this island…