humming nest was a bad translation from elvish toung when the first human traders had sought a portal into the farmay forest market.  trade between obleanne and the farmay groves was persued for 5 or 10 years but relations between the elvish and human nations had decayed and trade slowed to a trickle.   now, hummingnest was used as an outpost for elvish sorties into the flatlands and housed minor reeresentitives to address forign digantries that sought contact with the farmay.

the hammer, during this period, was chnaged from an internal policing agency to liase with external powers.  it was a network of spys and ambasadors and assassins under the indirect control of the elder council and had sequandered hummingnest as a headquarter of sorts. thier manifesto, was to preserve elvish sanctuary by promoting conflist between the external powers,  keeping their noumbers low without alowing one to destroy the rest.  when the orcs toppled the mushroom tower and it was clear that the hobgoblins would soon become extince on the continent, the evlish orcistrated the migration of a human element to keep the orcish in check. thier commander, Onedema-hred had tasked himself with providing a visable presence outside the woodlands to prevent humans from deciding the evlishg where better off enemies and to maintain the illusion that elvish where a powerfull, unchallangable folk.   he recruited to his ranks the most skilled and versitile elvish rangers and a number of orcs, humans and hobgoblins who had no kin-ties and whos loyalty to the hammer would be assured.

The hammer, and by extension the elvish species, became much feared and respected in the flatlands and hillpasses, but the elvish peoples as a whole remained largly ignront..  indeed distanefull, for this uncouth, militristic rabble.   elvish recriotment slowed, and onedema increased recriotment amoungst orcish and humankind.  these adopted their elvish peers traits, that is stotic, elitish snobery, but was tempterd by flatland praticality

by the time scarab's cult had established in greentoe, the hammer was responsable for the assination of 7 agressive landowners on the banks of river the river anne, razing 3 orcish settlements in the hills on the slops of ashspire and was the motivating force behind the failed teleknight campaign into greentoe.  it now recognized the potential orcish manipulation of hobgoblin interests as the destablizing force in the area, and was taking mesures to blanace the threat by putting it in direct oppisition to the growing ghoulish presence in the forsaken city of yrell


