Of the Coming of Men
In the years following the Second Battle of Mishfrem the Darkness found a new race to bend to their will. Men, they were called in the common tongue. They were short-lived and seemed weak to the Lords of Darkness. Thus it came to be that they offered all five houses of men refuge in the hills of Dilmarth, where they turned good to evil, where the sun never rose or set. Where there was endless twilight, where darkness was the only thing present.
Four of these houses accepted the offer. For the heralds of the darkness seemed fair to the eyes of men and spoke kind words. Thusly did they speak:
�Fair Lords of men! Hearken now to the words of the Lords of the East! They summon you to their aid in their darkest hour! They have been unlawfully assaulted by the evil servants of the Lords of the West. A Darkness has been laid upon their lands and no light can come thence! Unless the forces of men move swiftly to their aid the may fall and the evils of the elves will not halt there! They will strike thee in they hour of least concern! Dost thou then sayeth yay or nay to my lord�s request?�
Of the five Lords of Men two stood and spoke in favor of the Darkness. They took their tribes and departed. Two other tribes left several days later after promise of reward and long life. The fifth tribe was unwilling to fight for either side or to take up a permanent abode. They were forced to flee the lands that they then inhabited for the forces of Darkness were greatly wroth at this reply and swept down upon them in great fury. Then the Cilmrin, for that was the fifth�s tribe�s name departed swiftly but was ever harried by the forces of Darkness.
Then, many years later, the four corrupted tribes were sent forth fully armed from the hills of Dilmarth. But when they saw at last the lands in the west many of them turned and slew the men attempting harm it or its rulers. Then the elves looked on in confusion for a great host of them had come forth from Tielfrem to do battle with these new creatures of evil. But two of the tribes of men fled and ran back to the darkness. They were the Olyinjulk and the Julktu. Meaning the Screaming Darkness and the Dark Anger. The Tribes that loved the light were henceforth named by the elves the Kalrak and the Lithmini. Their names meant the West Light and the southerners. Their names came from this:
The Lithmini were given the lands between the great mountains and the sea that the Wisleli, Cold River, ran through. And the eastern and western borders were between the marshes of the mouths of Mishleli, Great River, and the lands where the shadow began. They built a great tower by the coast. It was made of white stone and it had a great crystal window on the top. In it was a great flaming beacon looking ever westward. Thence came their name.
The Kalrak received the lands surrounding the Hills of Kalramarth. Or South Hills.