Turaveen
"The villagers were obviously in a state of distress. The women were wailing, and the men had an angry yet resigned stare.
When I asked one of the men about the source of their distress, he pointed to one of the women and exclaimed: 'Her baby! The elves took her baby!'"
- Edmund Durnsten in: The Known Lands: Gorchov - The Sunset Province, Avane Street Publishing (1414)
The Great Forest of Turaveen is fairly isolated from the rest of the world, which suits its elven inhabitants just fine, as they want to have no truck with outsiders.
However, the elves of Turaveen have had declining birth rates for centuries, a fact which some now attribute to a divine curse, though no one is sure which divinity, if any, this curse can be attributed to. To combat this, some elven tribes have started the controversial practice of stealing babies from human communities in nearby regions. These are raised in isolated communities in the forest, where the humans are kept in awe of the elves with powerful illusions. Once the humans grow up, the elves choose the most attractive and robust humans as breeding stock - which the conditioned humans view as a high honor, though they remember nothing of the conception thanks to powerful mind magics. The resulting half-elves are taken by the elves and raised as full members of the tribe. Older humans, or those who begin to suspect too much, vanish from the human villages and are never seen again. The humans believe that they "go to live with the elves", but in reality, they are all killed.
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Timlorin (Small City, 53,442): The capital of Tuvareen, Timlorin is only a shadow of its former self. As the population plummeted, more and more buildings have fallen into disuse and many neighborhoods are falling into disrepair. An atmosphere of gloom and sadness hangs over the place, and only the occasional elven ballad lamenting the fall of their once-great nation breaks the silence.
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