The Revealing

In the closing years of the pre-history era a young Elf, a man called Lucius Tarquinius was sailing through the river Arno towards the island of Elba when he was struck by a vision. To this day only the mystics of his cult only know what was revealed to him precisely. What is known is that Lucius landed on Elba with a purpose. He spoke to his tribe and declared himself the Grand Sulato, the Emperor of all Elves. He led his tribe on a great campaign of unification, waring and negotiating and using religion to bring every single tribe under his banner. He fought many battles but historians cannot be sure which truly happened and which were merely invented in later eras. What historians do know is the last tribe to fall were the Samnites, led by Gaius Pontus Malum. This led to the forming of the Empire of Ternum, with Lucius Tarquinius as its emperor, given the honorific of Magnus, the Great.