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Quill and Compass, Entry 25: El'Koryn The El’Koryn stand at the shared root of the now-divided kin of Elves and Orcs; not as a curiosity of history, but as the common beginning from which two philosophies of living gradually took shape. To speak of Elves or Orcs without first speaking of the El’Koryn is to admire branches while forgetting the trunk. Their story is one of unity stretched over millennia, until what was once a single form bent and grew in directions so distinct that its descendants no longer recognized the shape they once shared.
The El’Koryn did not call themselves Elves, nor Orcs, nor any word now spoken by their descendants. The name by which we know them was not of their own invention, but given by the Dragons in the first centuries of their existence. Al’Kor’Ren; a Draconic phrase meaning "the moving heart of existence." The phrase was softened over time, adapted to mortal tongues, until it became El’Koryn as we now know it.
Their founding lands encompassed most of central Sylandaria, with the
