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Alzhara
Alzhara was the Queen of the nearly immortal Kalimdorei in the time before the destruction of the Well of Eternity. She created a palace of immense splendor on the shores of the well. It was here that the Quel’dorei or “high borne” lived and served her. Though she herself was not hated, the elitist Quel’dorei most certainly were. Alzhara orderd the Quel’dorei to study the Well and discern its purpose in the world. Eventually as time went on, the Quel’dorei began to master primitive magic. Their belief in their own superiority grew as their power increased. The Well, which was contained the essence of all magic, chaos, was slowly twisting the Night Elves who used it.

Alzhara reveled in the power the well granted her and eventually she heard a call from beyond. Sargeras the Lord of Chaos and father of the Burning Legion, sensed the power that emanated from the well and sought it for himself. He courted the queen and bent her to his will. She opened a portal and the Legion poured into Azeroth for the first time. The felhounds, infernals and Doom Guard destroyed her people but she did not care, she and the Quel’dorei simply waited for the arrival of Sargeras. Illidan Stormrage would warn her of his brother’s plan to kill her and end their spell to bring Sargeras in to the world. During the fight with Furion, Tyrande and the rebel forces, the spell was broken. The chaos of the magic gone awry would send ripples through the very soul of the world. The well would break apart and collapse in on itself even as the one continent of Kalimdor would break apart into the ones known today. Where once was a landmass surrounding the massive lake known as the Well of Eternity, there now was a handful of broken continents with a Maelstrom of magical energies swirling in the sea between them. Where the Well once stood only the Maelstrom remained.

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Dath’Remar
A Quei’dorei who served under Alzhara, he longed for the embrace of magic and all its consequences. He would grow to view the Druids as weak and cowardly due to their refusal to embrace magic. He would lead an attack on the Druids and eventually be exiled along with all his followers. They would cross the sea and eventually found the city of Quel’Thalas. The father of the High Elves, he is not remembered kindly among the Kalimdorei.

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Malfurion Stormrage
Malfurion studied the Well of Eternity as did all the Quel’dorei. However, unlike most of them, Malfurion realized the danger the power within the well presented. He watched as his queen and her loyal Quel’dorei became corrupted and manipulated by their thirst for its power. When Alzhara opened the gate for the Legion, Furion would be one of the first to take up arms against them.

A romance blossomed between he and the Priestess Tyrande. This caused tension between he and his brother Illidan but all quarrels seemed to be buried when they united to fight against the Legion. The battles raged and the Night Elves seemed doomed as long as the portal was kept open by the queen and her minions. Furion even believed that it was the well itself that was to blame and they must destroy it as well. Being unable to give up magic and its embrace, Illidan betrayed Malfurion and Tyrande as they tried to attack the queen.

Malfurion succeeded however, and was able to bring about the destruction of the Well of Eternity. The cataclysm ripped apart their homeland but rid them of the Legion. Malfurion would gather what remained of the Kalimdorei and even the remnants of the Quel’dorei and take them back to Mt.Hyjal which had luckily survived the sundering of the continent. When they arrived they discovered Illidan’s treachery as they witnessed the rebirth of yet another Well.

Still loving his brother but knowing that nothing good would befall his people as long as Illidan remained free, Malfurion talked to Cenarius and they constructed a prison. Deep under the crust of the world, in total darkness and far from the presence of magic, Malfurion imprisoned his own brother and returned to rebuild the homeland of his people. Forsaking the darker arts of the Illidan and the Quel’dorei, the night elves learned Druidic magics and helped to replant and renew their lands.

Awakened and disturbed by the cataclysmic destruction of the Well, the dragons eventually came to investigate. Malfurion and Tyrande talked to the greatest among them and they decided that an enchantment was needed to guard against the return of the legion. Alexstrasza, Ysera and Nozdormu helped create Nordrassil the Tree of Life to stand guard over Mt.Hyjal and the Night Elves. As its mighty branches scraped the sky, the druids entered hibernation. In exchange for the powerful magics imbued in the tree, the druids must give of themselves sentries of their lives to sleep and live amongst the “Emerald Dream”, that Ysera heralds from.

Malfurion and the Druids would wake and tend to the forests of Ashenvale and then sleep again. The creatures of the forest such as the Furbolgs and Quilboards returned and the nightelves flourished. Eventually however, the Quel’dorei grew restless and with the Dath Remar stirring the pot they soon began a revolt. They longed for the power of magic and began to view the druids as cowards for refusing to use it. Eventually they would attack Ashenvale in an attempt to convince the druids to change their minds. However, they had not practiced magic in centuries and they were defeated by the druids. Furion and the rest of the druids could not bare the thought of destroying so many of their kin, so they opted to exile them instead.

As the last of the Quel’dorei, or High Elves as they had begun to call themselves, left for other shores, Malfurion once more entered the “Emerald Dream” leaving Tyrande to defend the forest.

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Illidan Stormrage
Illidan embraced the power of the well from the time he first tapped it. He drank of its power as a man drinks of water in the desert. It was life itself to him. His brother, Malfurion though had discovered that with the power came a price. Though Illidan was ready to pay it, Malfurion could not. At first Illidan stood by his brother’s decision to rally a force to stop the queen. He loved his brother and loved Tyrande perhaps even more. Yet when he learned that Malfurion intended to destroy the well, he could not bare the thought of life without magic’s caress.

He betrayed his brother and his secret love by warning the Queen of their impending attack. Even though casting a mighty spell to bring Sargeras in to the world, the Queen and her Quel’dorei guards were ready for Furion and his allies. The battle cost many lives and almost Tyrande’s as well. Not wanting to risk losing the well or its power Illidan grabbed a few flasks of its water and escaped before the battle caused the well to break apart.

Illidan survived the cataclysm and made his way to a lake at the base of the sacred Mt. Hyjal. There he poured the contents of his vials into the lake. With its contents emptied into the waters, the lake was sparked into becoming a new well of eternity. When Malfurion and the rest of the nightelves found Illidan they were shocked. They knew that the legion would now have reason to return. For his crimes, Furion and Cenarious crafted a cage for Illidan and imprisoned him in the darkness far beneath the surface of the world.

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Tyrande
A revered Priestess of the Moon, she has protected the Kalemdorei lands for eons. When Tyrande and the very world itself was in its infancy, she found herself torn between two brothers. Malfurion and Illidan were both Quel’dorei, or High Borns who served Queen Alzhara. When the Queen opened the portal and allowed the Burning Legion’s armies to ravage their world, Tyrande stood with Malfurion and Illidan to try and stop their own Queen as well as the Legion’s army. It was during the war that Malfurion’s noble spirit won over the Priestess and by the end of it she knew that Illidan loved magic more than he could ever love her.

After the destruction of the Well of Eternity, Tyrande helped rebuild the Night Elf lands at the base of Mt Hyjal. She would lose both the people she loved. Illidan to prison and Malfurion to the hibernation that came with Ysera’s deal with the Druids. With the birth of the World Tree, Malfurion and the rest of the druids went into the period of hibernation, leaving Tyrande and Cenarius to defend the forest. Under the care and protection of Tyrande, the sleeping Druids and the Demi God Cenarius the lands grew strong. Dath Remar and other High Born’s who still longed for magic’s embrace would eventually lead a revolt against the Druids and Tyrande’s warriors. Tyrande would be reunited with her love Furion but it would be far to brief. The High Borns were exiled and once more Malfurion would be called back to the Emerald Dream to sleep away the centuries.

Time would pass and eventually a new threat would come to the forest. Orcs and humans driven from their homelands by the Scourge, began setting up camps within the Kalimdorei lands. Gromm Hellscream ferocity surprised the Night Elves who had not battled such foes in hundreds of years. Many Ancients fell to the orcs as the slashed and burned their way deeper into the forest. Cenarius came to Tyrande’s aid and with his help the orcs had little chance of survival. However, the Legion knew that some orcs still thirsted for the Chaos Curse of bloodlust and made plans to give it to them once more. Tichondrius the Dread Lord convinced the great Pit Lord Mannoroth to once more give of his blood to corrupt the minds and souls of orcs. When Gromm and his warriors drank of the defiled pool of water deep within the forest, they were given the ability to wound the formerly invulnerable Cenarius. The contingent of chaos infused orcs destroyed the woods and cut down the Demi God.

The Night Elves found themselves in a dire situation. Orcs had cut deeply into the forest. Humans had also started a settlement as well. But the true danger was the Scourge and its arrival to Kalimdor. The blight of the undead corrupted the forest. Even the Ancients themselves were twisted into madness by it. Tyrande and her warriors could not stand alone against these three threats. She quickly began to awaken the slumbering Druids. With Furion and the other Druids at her side there was hope, but she wanted every ally she could find to save her beloved forest. Though Furion objected she went deep into the earth and released Illidan from his prison of darkness.

The three fought valiantly but all would have been lost if the orcs and humans had not come to the Night Elves as allies. With the guidance of Medivh, the three warring factions set a trap for Archimonde at the base of the world tree. While Malfurion organized the wisps of the forest, Tyrande organized the last wall of defense against the Horde.

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