Lorekeeper's Den

CHAPTER I: MYTHOS

X – EXILE OF THE HIGH ELVES

(7 300 years before Warcraft I)

As the centuries passed, the night elves' new society grew strong and expanded throughout the budding forest that they came to call Ashenvale. Under the druids' benevolent leadership, the night elves enjoyed an era of unprecedented peace and tranquility under the stars.

However, many of the original Highborne survivors grew restless. Dath'Remar, the brash, leader of the Highborne, began to mock the druids publicly, calling them cowards for refusing to wield magic. Malfurion and the druids dismissed Dath'Remar's arguments and warned the Highborne that any use of magic would be punishable by death. In an insolent attempt to convince the druids to rescind their law, Dath'Remar and his followers unleashed a terrible magical storm upon Ashenvale.

The Druids decided to exile the reckless Highborne from their lands. Dath'Remar and his followers set sail upon the seas. The Quel'dorei would eventually set shore upon the eastern land men would call Lordaeron. They planned to build their own magical kingdom, Quel'Thalas, and reject the night elves' precepts of moon worship and nocturnal activity. Forever after, they would embrace the sun and be known only as the High Elves.