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In Blade of Empire, it was made explicitly clear that the Elves last met the Endarkened before they had even built Celephrandulias-Tildorangelor, which is before Pelashia came to Amrethion. There are hints in Blade of Empire that Pelashia was one of the Otherfolk ... I'm guessing she is related to the unicorns somehow, given that the unicorns in Crown of Vengeance are kind of stated to be the ultimate source of Light magic that the elves used. So the concept of Endarkened Elf-beings doesn't really make sense, especially that He-Who-Is made the Endarkened as a mockery of the Elves, and the Created-and-Changed take great pride in the fact that it was He-Who-Is that initially created them, even if Virulian twisted them into female versions of themselves.

Which reminds me that I'm curious as to what happened to the other Created-and-Changed in the aftermath of the First Great War, besides Uralesse whom we know survived to the end of the Second Great War.

I'm actually just very very very interested in the history of the Elves before Vieliessar's time, including all the way back to before they crossed the Great Sea Ocean in the east.

It is unlikely that the elves in Tildorangelor lived like Woodvose, because Bisochim in the book "The Phoenix Transformed" mentions that the Elves were proud and powerful, even after they obtained the powers of the Dragonbond.

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It is stated in several of the books that the Endarkened can't create and can only taint. From this I got the idea that He-Who-Is can't actually create either. That coupled with the elf-like ears is why I've thought the Endarkened were originally elves, and tainting them would be a way of mocking the elves. The fact that the Endarkened view themselves as being created could just be a misuse of the word "create", as altering one thing to become another thing could be perceived as creating. It could even be that He-Who-Is told Virulion that he "created" them, and then that is what the Endarkened would believe, true or not. I, of course, could be wrong.

Thanks for mentioning that it's hinted Pelashia is one of the Other Folk -- I didn't pick up on that. Given the elves' view of the Other Folk in Vielessar's time and assuming the elves thought the same way in Pelashia's time, that could explain why the elves in Pelashia's time perceived her children as cursed.

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He-Who-Is, being a Primal Force, can certainly create if He wants to. Of course, Creating is against everything He stands for, so there are times when I wonder how He rationalized it. It may well be that you, Dear Reader, are right (and I wrong) about HWI hijacking a part of the Light's creation. Not that you could tell from the testimony of the Endarkened, who are unreliable witnesses at best.

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Let's hope the survivors of the original Thirteen were all nicely dead by the end by the end of the Second War, and all but Uralesse dead by the end of the First, or I will need to re-write the other six books, and they'll all consist of blank pages. It's tough to write a balanced narrative when the Bad Guys are so whoppingly overpowered.