The god of the wild who raised islands, brought magic into the world, and built a great many cities.
Agenda: life spreading outward, and lately war.
Story
Sylvanus raised the world’s first land out of the western sea, Sylmara, and ringed it with winds. He changed the world at the start of the Second Age: floating crystals appeared in four places, and magic entered the world (Coming of Magic). He closed the sky (Skybreak) and opened the Underdark. In the Third Age his elves and giants went to war. Elyndra was broken at Glaive Port, but the hidden Grove around his Tree of Life survived the Great Battle of the Third Age. At the end of the Age he hid the Lost City, which may know where the lost crystals lie.
Works
Age I: the Shaping
- c. 6,000 years before year zero — Sylmara Archipelago and its permanent winds
- c. 5,000 years before year zero — the splitting mountains; a huge lake and a river to the second delta
- c. 4,000 years before year zero — Gorge of the Titans; jungle on the southern island
- c. 3,000 years before year zero — two mountain lakes and a great delta
- c. 2,000 years before year zero — Sylvariel; the Water Elves and the Explorers; all of Jungle Island
- c. 1,000 years before year zero — Frozen North; Nyravel; the Last Tide (via Sylvariel)
Age II: the Coming of the Races
- year zero — the Coming of Magic (Great Crystals); Nerathis
- c. year 100 — Ice Giants and the Hands of Elyndra; the Arcane Fang (via Sylvariel)
- c. year 200 — the lizardfolk’s jungle villages; the Skybreak; the Underdark
- c. year 300 — purified the Centaurs; Greenhaven; Nerathis’s warships of doom
- c. year 400 — Elyndra; Selvaruun on Elaruun; the Settlers
- c. year 500 — Desert Crystals, and the two lost crystals admitted; Elyndra readies the Ice Giants; the Elf Outpost (via Sylvariel)
Age III: the Age of War
- c. year 600 — the Last Tide raid the north shores; the Twin City (Sylvariel); the Purifiers of Evil (Elyndra); the Evil Alliance
- c. year 610 — the Tree of Life; Elyndra’s Defeat and the Corpse Field; the Grove
- c. year 620 — Elyndra’s Coastal City; the Grove’s magical defence; the Water Druids
- c. year 630 — the Lizardmen take up arms and strike through the Underdark at the Tree; a water elf army (Sylvariel)
- c. year 640 — the Lost City; Elyndra’s army takes Jungle Island’s Underdark mouth
Connections
- Great Crystals: magic is his gift
- Grove: his hidden stronghold
- Glaive Port: bound to the Last Tide, then failed to liberate it
- Svarog: corrupted his city and his elves