Editing Sylvaneth (section)

==History==
===Age of Myth===
The sylvaneth are the offspring of the goddess Alarielle, Queen of the Radiant Wood and ruler of [[Ghyran]]. Early in the Age of Myth Alarielle went around sowing soulpods, spirits she had saved from the World-That-Was. These formed into the first Sylvaneth. During this time, Alarielle sang a spirit-song, and this resounds in the souls of all Sylvaneth to this day, and through it Alarielle can communicate directly with them in Ghyran. The song of Sylvaneth helps bind them together as a united people, stopping them from struggling against one another not based on oppression but genuine feelings of unity (side note that said song can be heard by other races through magic rituals, though the raw life magic has a tendency to drive all who hear it insane). There was danger, of course, from rampaging beasts and hostile barbarian tribes. However, there were various spirits, most notably the Kurnoth Hunters, who formed the warrior caste and dealt with these threats while the others, most of all the Dryads, could nurture the lands and live in peace.

Alarielle looked upon her creations and knew peace at last. During this time, [[Sigmar]] found her and invited her to be part of his Pantheon, which she accepted. Time passed, and the children of the Radiant Wood spread beyond the bounds of Ghyran. Whether by soulpod seeds carried through Realmgates, or by the staging of deliberate expeditions, Sylvaneth enclaves sprung up across all the Mortal Realms, even realms less conducive to life, such as metallic Chamon and deathly Shyish.

These lands proved more dangerous than Ghyran. Entire sylvaneth clans were lost to war and catastrophe. Still, the sylvaneth prevailed and spread. There was one hazard they could not have planned for though; once beyond the Realmgates,the sylvaneth found themselves cut off from the spirit-song of their mother. The sylvaneth who travelled to new realms could still perceive the spirit-song that echoed from within, but they found themselves islands of harmony amidst a terrible silence. Some went mad, while others fled back to the comfort of their heartglades. Tales are still told of the terrible season in which Silverthorn Glade was lost altogether. Those sylvaneth who endured sought out those places in the new lands where life magic flowed the strongest. In these places of power, they planted soulpod groves and sank their realmroots deep; the realmroots being magical paths to travel accessible only to them.

These were places of ethereal pulchritude. The vast Hunter’s Moon, the Singing Mountains, the Citycaverns of Briardell and countless others echoed the beautiful wonder of the sylvaneth homeland.

===Age of Chaos===
They suffered grievously at the hands of the forces of Chaos. Nurgle, with his fixation on life and Alarielle's similarity to Shallya from the World-That-Was, focused his efforts on Ghyran and directed nearly all of his forces there, also seeking to claim Alarielle for himself. 
So swiftly did Nurgle’s spawn multiply that tides of squirming terrors were soon sweeping across the lands at an unstoppable pace. The Queen of the Radiant Wood rose to repel this foul invasion, and a war began unlike any other. Renewal battled entropy, healing magic fought infection.

During the Age of Chaos the first appearances of the Outcasts among the Sylvaneth - the Spite-Revenants - occurred, in a period referred to as the "Shrouded Season". = No one but Alarielle knows the details, because she purposefully deleted this from the Sylvaneth's memory on a racial level, including the Outcasts themselves, and refused to talk about it ever since. No one knows why Alarielle did this but her, and it makes them uncomfortable to think about across the board. 

All this time Alarielle had held onto Drycha's soulpod. She was conflicted about planting Drycha, fearing Drycha's madness and the harm she might wreak if freed but also concerned Drycha was a necessary darkness and that she was weakening the Sylvaneth by not including her. When she reached her lowest point during this Age, Alarielle headed to a hateful chasm and planted Drycha's soulpod there. Drycha emerged with a body of vines and thorn-root, torn between rage and depression, though she took the fight to the forces of Chaos, they were only slowed down, not stopped.

By the end of the Age of Chaos, all Sylvaneth had become warriors. Every Sylvaneth who wasn't a fighter had either taken up arms and learned to fight or been killed off.

===Age of Sigmar===
The Necroquake had less of an effect on the Sylvaneth than most of the other races, but they were still effected. The Gnarlroot Sylvaneth, who specialized in studying magic, devoted their efforts to studying the Necroquake and alleviating its effects where they could.

Recently, the events of the Stormvaults have revealed a new threat to Ghyran. There are objects called Black Seeds that sprout trees called Black Oaks that have a deterimental effect on the Realm of Life. Worse, the followers of Nurgle have found them and are starting to cultivate them all over Ghyran. It's mentioned Sigmar hid them in vaults in Ghyran for safe keeping. The Sylvaneth subsequently took it upon themselves to destroy the trees and end their spread over Ghyran.

During the Broken Realms saga Allarielle assisted the forces of Order in invading the eightpoints to stop the harvesting of Varanite. Archaon was planning to use it to break the gates of Azyr and invade Sigmars realm. Following this event she subsequently met with Teclis who was planning on finally stoping Nagash and ending the Necroquake as he felt it had gone on for long enough. While she offered her support she cautioned that the invasion was unnecessary as she was already working a spell of her own and it would have great ramifactions for the entire mortal realms. Regardless she leant her support to Teclis who managed to finally defeat Nagash and end the Necroquake.

Seeing that her opportunity had come she and her followers enacted a great ritual that would channel life magic throughout the realms to help heal it after the calamity of the Necroquake. Sensing what the Sylvaneth were doing the Beastman staged a mass invasion of the ritual site to try to halt it. However they were unable to get past the Sylvaneth in time and Allarielles "Life Quake" rippled throughout Ghyran and the other realms brining Life into acendency. This also led to the Oak of Ages past being reborn in Ghyran, growing into a mighty tree again as a symbol of life throughout the cosmos. However, this did not all go off without a hitch. The magical shockwave of the ritual was the last straw needed to finally free the Destruction God Kragnos from his prison (the Necroquake had already weakened it previously). And now the realms were now forced to once again have to endure the rampage of the End of Empires. Who's very presence was whipping up the forces of destruction into an even greater frenzy.

Allarielle subsequently had a chat with Teclis informing him of current events and dropping the big reveal that some kind of death taint still clung to him since his fight with Nagash, which seemed to diminish while he was in her presence.