House Arisan
Originally a group of dark-skinned elven exiles who resided in the forests of southern Duria, the Arisan elves were encountered by and allied with the early settlers of Neptag (now Neptaris). In return for leaving their forests east of the Krios river alone, the Arisan elves gave over a thousand human slaves that they had captured from local tribes to the settlers.
Despite a close alliance with Neptag during its first century, the alliance with the Arisan elves was threatened by the madness of the Neptaran King Kregimar of House Ikthian. Though initially popular, Kregimar tried to claim more and more of the Arisan Forest and established anti-elven policies, blaming them for the plagues and famine that hit Neptaris in the early decades of its second century. He even exiled his own brother, Pheremar, for taking an elven wife. It is rumored, was preparing an army to take the forest by force when he died expectantly in [112|112 NC]]. After Kregimar's death, the line of Ikthios came to an abrupt end as the male successors either died or became crippled and unable to rule. Within seven years, the only clear heir to the throne of Neptag was the exiled Pheremar's infant half-elven son, Orris, who had been living with his mother in the Arisan Forest. Orris was brought back to Neptag and placed under the regency of Joandar, then Dean of the House of the Quill in 120 NC.
In 124 NC, the dwarves of the Kingdom of Derlos (from beneath what is now known as the Cambrecian Mountains) came to the Arisan elves for aid fighting orcs who had ravaged their ancient underground homes. In what would come to be known as The War of the Dark Rider, the Arisan elves (and eventually the humans of Neptag) allied with the dwarves to defeat the orcs and their dark warlord, but at the cost of a great many elven lives.
When the Kamaros betrayed and subjugated Neptag in 170 NC, young King Orris secretly met with the Arisan elves to organize a rebellion against the Kamaran King, Irgalach. Again taking heavy losses in the fighting, the Arisan elves nevertheless were instrumental in securing Neptag's independence. After the war, many elves chose to settle in Neptag itself. By 206 NC the remaining Arisan elves requested permanent residence in Neptag and King Orris formally established them as House Arisan. To commemorate the melding of these two peoples, he also renamed the city Neptaris.
