Elf Kingdom of Kunid

The Elf Kingdom of Kunid is a squalor kingdom where the dominant race consists of High and Wood Elves. The Elf kingdom acts as the final haven for the elf race in Clamund due to the aggressive laws imposed by the Holy Empire of Visimar and the church authority of the Order of Paragon the prohibits the existence of Elves, which is mostly due to their wizard king status from over a millennium prior. The poor and declining nature of the region the Elf Kingdom resides in on top of the oppressive nature of the High Elf authority makes it one of the worse places to live in Clamund.

The Elf Kingdom of Kunid's region resides in Clamund most extensive forest which hides most elven settlements from roving bandits and raiders. This hidden nature means that many elven towns and settlements are secluded from the rest of the realm, making them poorer than most other villages and towns beyond their kingdom's borders. Trade is very poor in this kingdom not only due to the fact that most traders refuse to trade with elves, but the major bandit problem prevents any valuable goods from being able to reach any trader towns.

History
Elven history begun many centuries before the colonization of the Iron Gullet. Mainly, many high elf dynasty's ruled over Clamund, those of whom who possessed large amount of violent magic powers generally ruled over the poor and primitive humans and dwarves of the realm. These high elves generally called themselves the Wizard Kings. A large tribe or confederation of tribes who were ruled over violently by these Wizard Kings who used their superior power to quell any resurgence or attempts at their life. Life with these wizard kings were usually brutal and short as these magic users would put tribes to work at building needlessly large and dangerous structures that commemorated these Kings. It wasn't until the arrival of the Visimarians which would shift the power in Clamund.

The humans took the elves as a hostile group of warmongering sub humans. So hostilities arise as soon as the elves interacted with them. Thus beginning the human-elf feuds that still occur up to the present day. After many large battles took place in Clamund involving the elves and humans, many settlements were cut off from the elven territory, and many of the elf armies dead or captured. Which lead to the decline of the elven grasp in Clamund. Many were forced to retreat to the Talberg Forest. Where a majority of elven soldiers had the advantage of ambushes and superior knowledge of the terrain. This forced many human armies back to their kingdoms after realizing that these battles were always going to end up with many of their soldiers dead.

Once the fighting ceased and the elves finally at rest. They begin to settle in the Talberg forest en-masse with many forest retreats being established in remote and defensible areas of the massive forest. Where many refugees take shelter and train for an ever approaching threat of human invaders.

Without their accessible resources such as metals and proper places to farm. The elves began to make do with their surroundings and begin producing high quality wooden weapons while hunting and gathering various forest fruits for their food.

This continued while a respected King rose to power and established a proper Elf Kingdom. Calling it Kunid. Many rejoiced and celebrated knowing that their struggles will soon be gone as the King will finally share food with the needy while protecting his people from foreign invaders. These promises were in vain however as the King was no more than a sellout that appreciated human company more than his own race. He takes the food from his taxes only to give it out to the most paying and respected Elf nobles while leaving many lesser elves to perish.

People and Economy
Elven culture is believed to be like most other elven ways of life beyond Clamund. Unlike other realms. Clamund believes in the Order of Paragon. But rather a more pettier version of it. So instead of multiple confessors calling some forest retreats homes. Some confessors go undercover to the Kunid territory from the Holy Empire of Visimar to preach in towns. The more light hearted confessors are known to do this while the fully devoted and elite confessors absolutely refuse to step foot in such a terrible kingdom full of sub humans.

The Kunid Kingdom relies on the common feudal system that many other Kingdoms of Clamund rely on. The already poor hunters and gatherers have their harvests collected by Elven soldiers and nobles to be sent to the King where he distributes them to his nobles that he likes. While refusing to give harvests to lesser nobles and freemen. The lack of traders that come to the Elf Kingdom of Kunid means that the kingdom severely lacks in a true economy, which results in a detriment for many lower-class elven peasants and workers who cannot sell their goods to the realms beyond their kingdom. The Kunid government revolves around trust being gained by the king, which allows the nobles to receive food and goods by the king which are delivered by elven merchants. Many peasants loath this type of governing but they aren’t strong enough to revolt and their calls for revolution are lost in the wind. Which leads to lesser nobles and the common people to hate the King of the Elves and his guts. The Elf King takes all laws and orders under consideration that are requested by nobles. But are usually always denied by him. No council judges his actions since there was never one in the first place. This creates a hatred for the Elf king which could evolve into a civil war if left unobserved for too long. Just like the Dwarf Kingdom of Nord. Many Kingdoms of Clamund collectively agree that the Elf Kingdom of Kunid should be eradicated, replaced by human colonists of their own kingdoms just so they can expand their borders. Many nobles from different courts attack any elf they see that isn’t in the Kunid borders. This goes for nobles and any diplomats that have been sent out to discuss politics. This affects many attempts to defuse the hostilities to cease which puts stress on the nobles and their people. This does not go underway for most of the time as the combined strength of the Elf Kingdom and possibly the Kingdom of Lambert could cause an all-out war within the realm that no peace could fix.

Military
Ever since the forming of the Kingdom of Kunid. There has never been reports of professional standing army besides the Kings Retinue that deals with riots in the Capitol. The men and women that fight battles that aren’t in the king's retinue are militias of forest retreats and towns. They are settlement inhabitants that use their bows and crossbows to attack enemies on the ground while they shoot from trees and other high places. Avoiding close combat to prevent any disadvantage. Since many of the militias barely have iron weapons. With most using wooden spears and sharpened branches to make some sort of makeshift sword, most elven militias prefer to keep a skirmisher approach to their warfare, keeping a solid distance away from any warriors that could best them in close combat.

Mercenaries are barely used in combat since many human mercenary companies are never willing to be hired by elven nobles. Knightly orders also fall under this category. Since many refuse to accept wooden castles in the middle of dense forests as payment for their services.