Grandyew Isle

In the Maessus Ocean, off the shores of Lokkland, there lies an island with a single, gigantic yew tree. One of its enormous branches seems to be reaching back towards the land, and its roots cover the entire rock-covered island.

The Isle of the Grandyew, or Grandyew Isle, is home to the largest, eldest treant known in Taluma from which the island gets its name. The elves worship the Grandyew as the First, the progenitor of all other treants. It is said the island once was connected to Lokkland and Taluma, formerly a peninsula. In a battle with dread giants, she was forced to the very end of the land, upon which opportunity the giants severed her connection to it by destroying the land bridge that connected her spot to the continent. Without her connection of roots to the land and other treants, she lost her command of them and they were routed. The giants won the battle that day.

The Grandyew went into a slumber, but the elves still sail out to her to tend her and worship her, and help defend her from other attackers alongside other sentient plant beings; hoping one day she will reawaken to her full might. Her resting spot is important to the elves for other reasons than the Grandyew being there. Even before it was torn from the land, the peninsula was a sacred site for them as it is where the sea and sky meet, the farthest the land of Taluma reached out into the Maessus Ocean. Some elves devote themselves to a life of care of the Grandyew, staying on the island permanently, and the entire island is considered a sacred grove. Druids and rangers and many paladins of the ancient make their permanent home on the island in the Grandyew Isle stand.

Read on to find out why the meeting of the sea and sky is important to the elves.

Elves and Star’s element of Air

Elves, who are rifafolk along with the dwarves, honor the elements of air and water. The stars of Taluma and their element of air are ruled by Stel, the Air-King, whom the elves worship as a patron due to their connection with his element. To the elves the air, the sky and the wind, is the voice of Eost and the source of their voice as well. The wind carries the sound of their instruments and singing, and their dance movements are like the wave and the wind, with their flowing garments mimicking the way the wind blows the grass, branches and flags.

Stel, who the elves call Brigheyes, is one of the four Caelestine, the gods of the four elements and the celestial body that manifests that element who include the elves’ other idol Water-Queen Luna and the dwarven patrons Earth-Queen Eosta and Fire-King Sol. Each of the four Caelestine have dominion over many realms related to their element. Stel’s minerals are gems, his plants are grains and flowers, his time is Dawn, his beasts are the birds, and his storm aspect is the wind.

Stel, God of air, whom the elves call Brighteyes.