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The exiled Highborne founded a settlement in the tranquil glades during their eastern journey. It forms part of the historical narrative “The Abandoned Highborne Settlement.” The same history also records highborne abandon their tirisfal settlement. Its abandonment reflects the exiles' search for a homeland farther north.
Full History
The exiled Highborne founded a settlement in the tranquil glades during their eastern journey. ” That account follows Dath'Remar Sunstrider as its main perspective. Historical account: high elves settle Tirisfal, report madness, and leave; the cause is NOT established. Relocation northward. After several years of reported madness among settlers, the Highborne moved north. An underlying evil was theorized, not identified.
The original-era reading also carries this qualification: No discrete year is supplied for the Tirisfal stop; do not assign one.
The original Highborne settlement in Tirisfal belongs to a much later era than Tyr’s fall. The elves had left Kalimdor after the Sundering and crossed the sea seeking a homeland; they did not take part in Tyr’s defense or the earliest aqir wars. In the north, however, their departure to found Quel’Thalas would bring them into direct conflict with Amani forest trolls whose territorial history had developed through ages of settlement and warfare.
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