For the next period of time, the dark elves continued their conquest of all the kingdoms nearby, and they prepared expeditions to territories even further afield. Their military power had increased exponentially after winning the brutal civil war over the light elves, granting them access to the resources, magical artifacts, territories, and accumulated wealth that the light elf kingdom had controlled for millennia.
What had once been a balanced division of power in Aethermoor was now absolute dark elf dominance. The light elves who survived were either enslaved, scattered into hiding, or had sworn reluctant fealty to avoid extinction. Their cities had been conquered, their treasuries emptied, and their military strength absorbed into Darian's growing war machine.
