History of Aubrev and the Eptfyluum in the Second Era:

The most written about Aelindhe (or Elves in Nidaenesse) queen of Aubrev Ceit Eptfyluum was Craevys Pulmórelle (see Artys Fylumcalum's painting). She was born on the 25th of Elhreg in 19 2E to the Fifth High King of the Aelindhe, Coursan “Vounts Salauts” Pulmórelle, and his wife queen Vólethia, Lady of Kefyluum. She began her rule on the First of Byyren in the year 102 of the Second Era. She ascended the throne at the young age of eighty-three when her father died in a bandit attack on the road between Rhovehk and Aubrev.

Like all Aelindhe, she was beyond mortal beauty. However, among the Aelindhe, she, in turn, was the most beautiful of all. Many of the poems depict her as kind, and actively against war. She would spend her time in the gardens of Aubrev singing praises to Kyllista.

Her voice, as it is said, resounded as birdsong, echoing through the winding streets. She was also incredibly intelligent and focused much of her time on learning how the animals and beasts worked together with the land. She was the first to develop the idea of our now food chain.

Her epithet “The Red” comes from the first few years of her rule. When her father died, she gave in to her wrath. She blamed the newly freed Rhovehki people responsible for her father’s murder and attacked them the year following her coronation. She burned her way across their kingdom, butchering and burning entire towns and villages (see the map of the Rhovehki Kingdoms).

When her siege of Rhovehk was broken in 105, she was pushed back all the way to Aubrev. An army out of Halcate’s Cradle outflanked her positions and the army didn’t have enough time to mount a defense. The alliance between the Rhovehki and the Halcate tribes during this age was formed once Queen Pulmórelle crossed the Aubrevont into the territory belonging to the Inhare Clan of the Rhovehki. When the Rhovehki offense came a few months later, her army was weary from war and refused to meet the Rhovehki in battle. The attackers took their chance, surrounding the city by blockading both sides of the river canyon. In a desperate act, Queen Pulmórelle sought out -and found -the leaders of the mutiny. The next morning, she lined every single one of her soldiers in the courtyard outside of the palace. She put the traitors that caused the dissent on a platform in the middle of the courtyard and personally ran her sword through each of the thirty-seven men. After she had done so, she lifted her sword to the heavens covered in blood. The people named her Craevys “the Red” that day. She sent out emissaries to king Cannus Myrie Risalf of Kyllithia, requesting help in removing the Rhovehki threat from the Aubrevont. Help came on the 22nd day in the month of Seinnar as the Nyrthfulke thundered down from the mountains and broke the Rhovehki and Halcate armies.

The two rulers met the following year in the Havanthi city of Zûl-Harad in the Nyrthr Vogg Bejolle. A treaty was drafted by King Myrie himself and in it was stated that “the people of Rylla and the Aelindhe are unified from now until the end of days.

After the war, during the rest of her rule, she attested fighting, and actively fought against war of any kind. Her epithet began to take on another name. It switched from referencing the bloody scene in the Palace courtyard to taking on the fond memories of her sitting in the palace gardens singing and reading stories to the children. The visions of blood were overtaken, and the red became her love for her people, and all they hold dear.

Her major reforms during her rule were boundless and brought about an improvement in life for the people of the Eptfyluum. One of the most important was the creation of the first known police and fire brigade in the year 254 2E. Another was a new look on taxes in 312 2E by using the money to fund education for her people and build infrastructure across the kingdom. Lastly, of her major achievements, in 510 2E she commissioned three great and beautiful temples to the gods out of the royal treasury. Most of these temples- except for the one in Aubrev- are in ruins, but still hold semblances of the majesty that they once contained.

The rest of the list of achievements in her 439 years of rule were bountiful, but the foremost on that list is when she played a major role in ending the Beirrad Plague. The plague swept across the continent- coming from the Far East, across the Great River Vaeranne, east of Kataines- from 326-510 2E, causing cysts and sores that covered the body until a blood poisoning ultimately killed the host. It was a very painful disease that lasted one hundred and eighty-four years. She, with the help of Kellion Holboscri (see the second painting by Artys Fylumcalum)- later St. Kellion the Kind- of Tevirmond, used her knowledge of anatomy and biology to create a cure for the disease. After a few years of traveling, she fell in love with the mortal man, and when the Beirrad Plague had been eradicated, they were wed. He was twenty-eight years old when he married Craevys, and she was 486. On the night of their wedding, Kellion penned the most famous poem dedicated to the Red Queen, his wife:

The Red Queen

By: Kellion Holboscri

The red queen and her heart of gold

Who graced our stories long of old

Queen of Aubrev, radiant glist’ning

She whom all the children adored

When she sang to them, love out-poured

Songs of love, the children list’ning

Her golden hair gleamed of sunlight

Arms like silver, shining starlight

In glorious display, untiring

She’d dance across unwithered ground

Her voice of birdsong in resound

This goddess of love, inspiring

O my Red Queen, beauty divine

Who takes the world and makes it thine

O’er the world on angelic wing

O beautiful queen long of old

Whose fair presence is to behold

Within thy hair, flowers of spring

They had three children, two boys, and a girl: Lytain, the firstborn son; Delyna, the second-born daughter; and Chyfors, the youngest son.

When their final child was born, Kellion (above) fell ill having been bit by a Katakalla when riding through the great pine forest from Aubrev to Celaphéns. His men brought him back to Aubrev, and when Craevys saw death surrounding him as a cloud, she went in haste to the temple of Kyllista. She cried out for the Mother and any of the gods that would listen begging them to spare his life. For a week she knelt before the altar, praying ceaselessly. She offered to sacrifice her remaining years to let him live. Kyllista, being moved by the love between them, petitioned her husband to accept her deal. The Father agreed, but was lenient. Kellion’s life was spared, but in return, Craevys would finish her life as one of mankind, and die with Kellion. Even though she would still be the most beautiful woman to walk under the stars, she now aged much quicker.

For thirty more long years, the two spent every moment as they could with one another, until finally, age had caught up with them. The city of Aubrev awoke to sorrow and weeping on the morning of the 16th of Aranûr 541 2E, as their beloved queen was dead. Craevys Pulmórelle died peacefully in her sleep with her husband Kellion of Tevirmond at the age of 522. She was the only female among the Aelindhe to hold the title of High Queen, and it is still written on her mausoleum in the city.