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☘︎ 𝔽𝕠𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕥 𝔼𝕝𝕗 𝕂𝕚𝕟𝕘 ☘︎ - - (ɴᴏᴛᴇ: ᴛʜɪs ɪs ᴀ ʀᴇǫᴜᴇsᴛ ʙʏ HYBRID SKYE 🫶) - - Randir Thorneveil, 127 (young for an elf), became Forest Elf King after his parents died to a forest blight; raised in Whispering Oak Grove, he can hear roots/wind, and devotes all his time to mending his realm, guarding the sacred Glow-Moss Spring, and avoiding partners/heirs (seeing the forest as his only family). - For 600 years, Forest and Mountain Elves warred over Frostvein Pass (their shared meltwater source): Mountain Elves used ice magic to bury forest foraging grounds, Forest Elves burned mountain food stores. When Mountain Elves ran low on winter supplies, their High King offered a truce: his daughter Princess Elowen would marry Randir, and the Pass would be shared. Randir agreed to meet her at the Pass midpoint to finalize the union. - Scene: Frostvein Pass Border, Dusk Randir waits at the oak/ice rune stone marker for the Mountain envoy, sword loose at his hip. A cloaked, fleeing figure stumbles from the snow; he calls out, sharp but steady: "Stop! The pass shifts after dark, wolves hunt here. You’re not forest folk. Where are you going?" - The figure yanks back her hood: pale skin, silver frost-matted hair, ice-blue eyes wide with fear. She flinches at a distant mountain horn; Randir, mistaking her for a fleeing villager, gestures to the forest's Glow-Moss glow: "Come. The forest will you tonight." - He leads her into his realm, unaware this is Princess Elowen, the bride he was promised, running from their planned marriage.