Editing Wood Elves (Warhammer Fantasy) (section)

==The dim, dim past==
[[File:WoodElves.jpg|350px|thumbnail|left|At least these tree lovers are sufficiently badass.]]
The ancestors of the Wood Elves were [[High Elf]] colonists to the [[Old World]], who lived in big sparkling cities on the coasts of what is now [[Bretonnia]] and the [[Empire]]. However, like all colonists, they eventually got fucked over badly. The High Elves back on Ulthuan and the [[Dwarf]] kingdoms had a serious falling out and engaged in a war that was called the War of the Beard or the War of the Grudge.

What it boiled down to was a decades-long series of running battles and sieges where the poor colonists were the losers, with their lands being the battlegrounds and their people used as the main forces. To add insult to injury, when the dwarfs claimed a win after slaying the phoenix king, the High Elves were attacked in the rear by the renewed [[Dark Elves]] (who were responsible for the entire war in the first place) and decided they must abandon the colonies to protect their island home.

Of course jaded and felt taken advantage of, the remaining colonists said fuck this and ventured deeper inland, to make their own home. Driven to desperation, the elves ventured into the forest of [[Athel Loren]], which to this point they had avoided since it did mysterious shit and they were rightly afraid. This time though the forest didn't seem to mind them coming in and when they reach the big old tree known as the Oak of Ages, some of the elf mages went all witchy and claimed they could now hear the voice of the forest and it in turn could hear them.

Overtime the forest come to see the newly named wood elves as a beneficial force, to protect itself like a bunch of white blood cells during the winter months when it was dormant. In turn the Wood Elves gained a new home, new allies, and funky new powers, so it was seen as a good alliance all told.

When a big [[orc]] invasion attacked the forest, the elves tried to fight back but found they lacked the strength. It was now though the elf gods showed their hands; on the dawn of the last battle, as the elves drew together to defend the oak of ages against the orc host, spring returned and a massive power swelled from within the forest. The Elf Gods [[Kurnous]] and [[Isha]] had chosen mortals to be their agents, their demi-god champions, and they smote the orcs to pieces. Since then Orion, avatar of Kurnous, and Ariel, avatar of Isha, have been the King and Queen in the Wood, and the Wood Elves have protected the borders of the forest ever since.