A brief overview is that Neverwinter is a powerful local citystate to the north and Waterdeep is an even more powerful local citystate to the south. Lord Neverwinter has ruled Neverember ever since he came there with a whole bunch of money to help them rebuild when a fire demi-god from Mt. Hotenow buried half the city under hot lava. Neverember got that money by being the Lord of Waterdeep, except then he was deposed by Lady Laeral Silverhand and now only rules the much poorer and weaker Neverwinter. He is now<em>very angry</em>at Laeral Silverhand, but there's bugger all he can do about it. Elves are a minority population in Neverwinter, but they do live there and have lived there for centuries.<br/><br/>Most elves in the area live in Neverwinter Wood, and that colony is less than a century old and somewhat isolationist. Plus, pretty much all the events of the last century have been retconned away (the establishment of the elf colony in Neverwinter Wood is a rare exception). The elves in the Neverwinter Wood are locked in an interplanar cold war with dark fey from a particularly evil portion of the Feywild, and also there are a bunch of goblinoids on the eastern and southern fringe of the forest who make trouble for them sometimes. Neverwinter has no formal alliance with the elves, but they have the same enemies, so they tend to get along.<br/><br/>Forgotten Realms lore is basically bottomless, so even cutting out the parts that are terrible I could keep writing about this for like two full pages. I wrote a .pdf about political factions on the Sword Coast (the region where Neverwinter and Waterdeep are located) and it was over thirty pages long. So, rather than dumping all thirty of those pages here, is there anything specific you'd like to know?<br/><br/>Also, neither of our half-elves are above the age of 25. Go figure.