Lotharn listened to the two women with a smile. "Well lets go eat and the two of you can have all the berries and grapes you want." he chuckled. He was more in the mood for a good stew and some fresh bread with butter and some fresh fruit. He followed them and they were soon at a large dining hall where many elves sat and ate. Lotharn found a table for them and sat down. It was not long before someone came up to take their orders. He gave his and asked for some sweet wine. He didn't like the dry wine, it tasted to much like the alcohol content it had. A sweet wine you couldn't taste that. As they sat there, the other elves began looking over at them. Even in such a large city of the elves, strangers were recgonized. Their clothing, and mannerisms were a sure giveaway. It would not be long before all knew that strangers had come to their city<br/><br/>Three days later the screech of Giant Eagles could be heard over the city, and the giant and graceful creatures could be seen landing on the high cliffs above the city. The Representatives of the Humans, Dwarfs and Elves had arrived. In the three days Pegawen's reading of the old tomes told the tale of the Evil One. His real Name was Orsun and he had come east with the elves. He himself was thought to be an elf as he looked like one. He disappeared into the wilds shortly after their arrival and he was thought to have perished exploring. She read about the contact with the humans and how the Elves took them under their wing and began teaching them how to build, better farming techniques, forging weapons and armor, for there were some foul creatures there as well at the time and were a very nasty bunch. It had a chronalogical order to the history of what was done and what happened. It told of battles with the strange creatures that were not human, but had the general appearance of humans. They were blood thirsty and craved human and elf flesh. They were thought to be an off shoot of the human race that never advanced, but they were not dumb and captured those that could make weapons and armor and forced them to teach them how to make them. They were given the name Reavers. It told of the first disappearances from the villages to the south. Only a couple here and there, and then more, until the population of entire villages disappeared.<br/><br/>Search parties sent to look for these missing people began to disappear and after that graveyards began to be found defiled. The bodies of the dead dug up and missing. How at first it was thought that these were the results of the humanoids called the Reavers. But then there were the sightings of loved ones, hollowed eyed and moving as if they had trouble walking. It soon became apparent that these people were no longer living but dead, as they attacked those that came close and killed them, dragging the bodies off to someplace. Then the first attacks on larger villages and towns began. These undead, armed with weapons attacked and could not be killed, as they were made pincushions with arrows and they still attacked.<br/><br/>The books told of Morgan's fall as he betrayed an army sent to fight these creatures, leading them into a trap where they were slaughtered and their bodies, weapons and armor were dragged off, only to appear again as an undead army. The books went on about battles, heros, and defeats and the ever increasing number of undead being thrown at the living. At that time also the humans were divided as were the dwarfs. The told of the rise of a Hero. Not one that one would imagine. He had been a simple farmer but because of what was happening he stepped up and became a leader.<br/><br/>The books tell of him finding the Dwarvan Ax, a mighty artiifact that had been crafted by a dwarf king to united the Dwarfs in a dire time. Upon his death it disappeared and again the Dwarfs fell into fueding. Now with the artifact and in the hands of a good Dwarf King, the Dwarf kingdoms united and followed the Farmer. Next came the Elves. They saw something in this young man that they had never saw before in a human and they too united their kingdoms to follow him. Last came the humans who were the brunt of the undead army's march and losses. Seeing the Elves and The Dwarfs who by nature were at odds with each other come together under one banner joined the alliance.<br/><br/>The Farmer, who's name was never mentioned anywhere but was just refered to as Farmer, lead the armies of the Alliance, without knowledge of warfare, he rode into battle and began defeating the armies of the undead and forcing them back to the Valley of the Undead and the Citadal of Evil. Pegawen learned of the onslaught of the undead in the Valley as the brave few with the Farmer entered the Citadal and confronted the Evil One. It was unknown how a simple human was able to withstand the scathing attacks that the Evil One threw at him but he did and fought with him in single combat as those wizards and human clergy wove a spell to imprison the Evil One. She learned the spells used and what happened when they cast the final spell.<br/><br/>She learned how the Farmer was entrapped in a tower opposite the one the Evil one was entrapped in. The decision made to leave them as they were and the four stones that became the keys to the prisons. How a thief, upon leaving the Citadal had stolen one of the stones and reentered the Citadal that was full of undead. Then the final inprsonment of all the undead in the valley by powerful magic. How many that died had to be left so that the valley could be covered above and below with a powerful shield of energy that would prevent any from leaving the valley.<br/><br/>The rest she learned was of the history of the land after that, the sperating of the three races, the loss of the Dwarvan Ax once again and the falling out of them with the other Dwarf kingdoms and the humans as well. Only the Elves remained united and they went to their forests and cities, leaving man and dwarf to rule themselves.