Wild Elves - Free

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to run as possible. As a result, this
adventure has an episodic or linear
plot. A episodic plot is one in which
events follow one after another without
much variation; this plot is a collection
of mini-adventures added together.
Experienced DMs may find other
approaches to be more satisfying; they
are free to add or adjust plot elements
of this adventure to increase their
players’ enjoyment and to fit into the
DMs’ interpretation of the world of
Krynn.
Use the four-color, fold-out map for
details of the important cities the player
characters will encounter in this
adventure.
P ROLOGUE:
Of the Valley of Perfect Silences,
the cruelty of elves to elves, and
of the cruel hope yet to come.
Hear now the tale all the winds know.
We hear it well.
The suffering that the others bring us.
The gift of the world and our curse.
Trust not in others.
Nature is our only savior, and she has
prepared Salvation.
Beyond the North.
Beyond the West.
Beyond the East.
In the Southernmost South, hear now
the tale.
The Vale where no others can enter.
The Vale where none can scorn us.
The Vale where none can enslave us.
The Vale where none can lie to us.
The Valley of Perfect Silences.
Nature’s gift to those who are worthy.
Green grass, blue skies, wide waters
and truth.
It is ours when we can find it.
To hold as long as we are worthy.
—a Kagonesti chant
The War of the Lance was a great
triumph for the free peoples of Krynn.
The forces of the Dark Queen, Takhisis,
reeled in defeat. The elves of Krynn
had achieved a unity of purpose that
had been lost for millennia. The
disgraced Knights of Solamnia had
been redeemed. All of the races that
espoused the cause of good, though
they had seen their homelands
devastated, had hope for the future.
All save the Kagonesti.
The Kagonesti were considered a
savage race by their distant kin, the
Silvanesti and the Qualinesti. The
Silvanesti and Qualinesti both settled
(some say invaded) the Kagonesti
homeland of Southern Ergoth and
enslaved the Kagonesti. The “higher”
elves forced the Kagonesti to build
cities for them, claiming that they were
helping their distant kinsmen by
exposing them to civilization. The
Kagonesti knew better. Having no
hope, and not wishing to shed the
blood of those who had fought the
Dark Queen, they tolerated this forced
service.
Several years after the end of the War
of the Lance, rumors began to spread
among the Kagonesti. Rumors that gave
them hope. Rumors of the Valley of
Perfect Silences.
The Valley of Perfect Silences is an
old Kagonesti legend. In ancient times,
the Kagonesti were among the few
elves who refused to build cities of
stone, preferring to live in harmony
with nature. The Kagonesti hunted and
worked hard to preserve their ancient
traditions, but eventually they were
driven from their homes by various
intruders: ogres, humans, and other
elves. But the Godspeaker (chief
shaman) of the Kagonesti proclaimed
that in their darkest hour the gods
would provide them with a sanctuary;
a place where none but Kagonesti
could enter.
It was an attractive legend, but no one
ever found the Valley of Perfect Silences.