Treelores and Vartains

Both Bronze Elf societies are known for their aloofness and lack of social skills. They prefer being alone. With the threat of the Dwarves and the encroachment of the gnomes into their forests, the Treelore built the tree city of Landera as a place of refuge. Most Bronze Elves still prefer solitude and living in small groups, but are aware that their survival may depend on presenting a unified front to their enemies.

The Treelores stayed in the forest, and have come to believe that their forest home is worth dying for. They have set up numerous strongholds of ambush along the major trails in order to keep the Draconians, dwarves, and anyone else from taking over should they ever decide to attack enmass. So far the only threats have been warbands of enemy troops moving through the forest on their way to attack some distant settlement or town. The forces that move through the elven stronghold usually come out the other side somewhat battered and limping. Thus far the Draconians and the dwarves realize that fighting in the elven homeland would avail them of only some deep forest land that would be in constant dispute until the forest was obliterated or one race or the other was driven out.

The Vartains have settled along the river.  They were the more pacifistic members of the Treelore Clan.  They fear that their forest homeland will fall to the dwarves.  Most of the Vars, as they are called by their forest brethren, are similar to their stay at home cousins, but they are probably closer to neutral or even lawful good. Their skin is an even darker bronze and they are not nearly as adept at fighting from ambush as their forest cousins. This does not mean that they are unwilling to fight, it only indicates that the forest does not exert as strong a pull on them as their brothers they left behind. They tend to be much better at melee type fighting as opposed to the stealthy attack from ambush used by the Treelores.  Should the two sub-cultures ever reunite there is much they could teach each other.  It is to that end that the Treelores continue their resistance in their forest bowers.

The elves of the west, who have settled in gnome, human, and dwarf dominated lands, believe that there is safety in numbers and are willing to give up their forest in order to live in a semicivilized state.