"The Mindshape Circle consisted of Valiin, Ryshala, Sakatii, Shata, Mlenzila, Nikari, and Tareshu, with Shalika as the assumed leader. They had devoted their pooled energies to shaping the Ship the Firstcomers traveled in. Powerful were their magics, and they still do exist on the Two-Mooned planet. If one were to travel deep down into the StillDark, they could find their greatest masterpiece.
"'Endlessblack' was what they called the vast, star-specked void they traveled through. The High Ones in this circle were astronomers. By gazing out the great clear places in the Big Palace, they could navigate their home. If the Endlessblack has never been created, they would have been killed by a meteor shower, but that's another story. Both Circles were very important.
"When Shalika saw what the burrowers planned on doing to the guiders, she decided it was time to leave the main palace. Her group formed a smaller one out of the same substance that the parent had been made of. The Endlessdark chose to travel with the Mindshape and so they all boarded the Palace.
"Shalika led the Palace, and the others followed her word. She was the first real chieftess the High Ones had seen, and they liked the concept. It would shape the way we divided into tribes later on, such as ours.
"Once they split and begin their own travels, the large parent of the Palace was overthrown, and crashed somewhere in the Icecrust mountains, or so it's said. Shalika's Palace was landed in these waters here." At this point, Silvasrith held his hand out over the beach, "And it has been there since Tali was a tiny fledgeling.
"Some adventurous elves have gone down there to visit or trade with them, and a few have returned. I, for one, know all of this because I have been down there. Many turns I spent there, but that matters not. Maybe someday you will go down there to the ancestral home of our kind, and see the one who started our race.."
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