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A Note on Pronounciation

A Brief History of the Fren-íáre

The Kingdom of Renyámon-Fenoras

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The inhabitants of Renyámon-Fenoras are usually referred to as Elves, but they find the term distasteful. Their preferred name is Fren-íáre, which in their language means "firstborn." For they were the first on the Earth, but Men were more aggressive and siezed the Earth from them. For a while the Elves were enslaved to Men, but they rebelled and escaped. And now Renyámon-Fenoras is their last refuge.

The name Renyámon-Fenoras is a compound Velná (the language of the Fren-íáre) word: Renyá "king" + mon "that which relates to, or is owned by." Fenoras retains the memory of the first leader of the Three Hosts, who rallied all the Fren-íáre in the Rebellion against the cruelty of men.

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á as in bait

é as in beet

í as in bite

ó as in boat

ú as in butte

The rule about using an accented vowel when it is pronounced as a long is not absolute. For example, Fenoras contains a long "o", but the accent is not present. This is probably due to the "r" that immediately follows the "o".

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Slightly smaller than Men, the Fren-íáre believe they were the first humanoid race to inhabit the Earth. To them, Men are an accident, an unexpected by-product of the creation of the world. Men are aggressive, belligerant, intolerant, and greedy - qualities that allowed them to storm over the Earth and subdue it to their domination. Fren-íáre, quiet and easy-going, were first regarded by Men as curiosities, then as useful partners, then as servants, and finally as slaves.

The Enslavement, as the Fren-íáre refer to the period when they were no longer regarded even as servants, lasted a very long time: most historians believe it started around 3000 BC and lasted for nearly 4500 years. The Rebellion started approximately 1100 AD. By this time the Fren-íáre were almost identical physically to Men - Men were able to have children by them - but over the centuries they had slowly been developing telepathic abilities. Perhaps because they are a long-lived race (their average life-span is easily five or even ten times that of Men) it took a very long time to produce enough generations that had the full ability.

Fenoras was the first to realize this had great potential. He awakened the ability in many of his people, and for several hundred years quietly organized and later cajoled his people into action against their steadily worsening plight. Being an inherently peaceful race, it took a very long time to convince them to move against Men.

The Rebellion originally was intended to be simply a mass escape. On one single night, every member of the Elvish race would quietly vanish. Men, hampered by their need to speak in order to converse with each other, would know nothing until they awoke in the morning to find their slaves gone. But Fenoras made a critical error in his planning: he did not account for the reaction of Men to the loss of their property.

The quiet escape quickly turned into a panicked run from bands of armed Men hunting them down. Centuries of military conflict had turned Mem into able hunters, trackers, and strategists. They saw the flight of the Elves as an act of war, and responded with arms and violence. The Fren-íáre were caught ill-prepared to fight their way to freedom. Many were recaptured, and almost all were beaten for having run away. Many did not survive. Those suspected of being leaders were tortured, and their cries could be heard by nearly every other Fren-íáre. All those subjected to this barbaric treatment eventually died, and their passings were felt by all. Even Fenoras himself was caught and died in this manner.

Fenoras may have made a mistake, but his people learned quickly. His son Mel-Fenoras, born a mere decade before his father's death, knew that telepathy and flight alone could not save his people; they would have to learn how to fight. And they did. It took a long time, but time also was on his side. Many Fren-íáre were born in the two hundred years after the start of the Rebelliom, mostly to replace older ones who had been killed by Men, and mostly in free areas where they were not enslaved. These younger ones were taught to overcome their peaceful instincts and learned how to wield a sword and fire a bow. They studied what they referred to as the Dark Ways: strategies of battles and wars as fought by the Men.

All told, this phase of the Rebellion took nearly 450 years. And when the Fren-íáre made their next bid for freedom, it was remarkably swift and definitive. Parties of Men sent to hunt down escaped Elves never returned. Battles fought in various parts of world (Europe, the Middle East, and even one in North America) ended in such decisive routs against Men that they were quietly stricken from the history books and never referred to again.

Curiously, Mel-Fenoras was caught and endured nearly five hundred additional years of enslavement. Perhaps it was not a Man that caught him and his companions, for this person had powers and abilities that no Man had ever known. For one, he had equipment that masked the telepathic wavelengths of the Fren-íáre, something that no Man was ever able to do. (In fact, Men never really did solve the mystery of how the Elves were able to communicate without speaking to one another.)

The captive group of Fren-íáre was freed when Nari, an explorer, arrived on Earth. (He was from a different part of the galaxy, and was preparing a report for the League of Planets on whether or not Earth was ready to receive an invitation to join them. Not surprisingly, Nari's report recommended against such an action.) He, too, had the ability to communicate telepathically. Since his ability was more advanced, he heard a call for help coming from the captives, even though a group of Fren-íáre living in hiding close by could not.

The last battle of the Rebellion was brief, made possible by the use of a temporal displacement field set up by Nari, rendering most of the traps and guards set up the captor useless. The captive band escaped, though not without bloodshed, for several the guard-beasts had to be killed. Mel-Fenoras was knocked down by one of the beasts during the battle, but he was not injured and regained consciousness within a few minutes.

The Fren-íáre that lived close by, gladdened by re-appearance of the son of the honoured Fenoras, immediately proclaimed the astonished Mel-Fenoras their King, giving him the title Renyá fo-Arinýl, King of the Stars. He immediately realized the halls carved in the ice nearby were an excellent place to establish a refuge for all Fren-íáre. So he established Renyámon-Fenoras and invited Fren-íáre the world over to join him.

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There are rumours there is another community living under the ground deep in the rainforests of Borneo, but the inhabitants of Renyámon-Fenoras become curiously evasive when asked about it. Overall, detailed information on the Fren-íáre and Renyámon-Fenoras is difficult to obtain. They may be a quiet and peaceful race, but after the Enslavement and Rebellion they are deeply distrustful of outsiders and reveal little about themselves to the few who have ever visited there. So much of the information in this section is based on speculation.

The Kingdom is ruled by Mel-Fenoras, the son of the great Fenoras. He holds the title Renyá, or King, but after the manner of his people he acts more like a chairman in a meeting of equals than as would a king of Men.

Overall, the community is peaceful, with the inhabitants going about their business in a quiet, gentle manner. It is not in their nature to quarrel or advance themselves at the expense of others, for those are traits of Men. There are probably not more than ten thousand Fren-íáre living there.

The life there is unhurried, but there is much work to do. Polar ice is unstable, so the inhabitants work diligently to ensure the ice surrounding their underground city does not damage it. Their primary bulding material is a mysterious substance they call sítérnoc (literally, "ice concrete.") It is white, transluscent, and looks very much like ice, but it is not, for it does not melt. It may have been ice at one time, for it is abundantly available in a place were little else is.

Food comes from under-ice gardens, and fish and animals they can find in the sea and out on the ice cap. Water is in abundance all around them: they can melt pieces of the ice cap to obtain it. Where they get the energy from to heat the community and drive their technology is somewhat of a mystery, one they are not willing to share with the few outsiders who have ever been there. Possibly they have a method of harnessing the energy in the ocean currents.

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The Flag of Renyámon Fenoras contains two sections:

1. A tricolour bar on the left (mast) side:
   • Blue represents the Host of Esu, who settled by the Sea
   • Green represents the Host of Teas, who settled in Forests
   • Yellow represents the Host of Tor, who settled on the Plains
2. A field of white, representing the snows and ice of the Pole, where the Fren-íáre were forced to settle after the Rebellion.

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