The Elf Saint is a NEET, so I Forced Her to Work in Another World

The Return of Hinwe Tal-Inwir (Interlude)

***The city of Berondin, after several weeks...***

Long after the last of the demon armies were scattered at the end of the 11th Human-Demon War, the elvish settlement of Berondin first came into existence. By then, the god of Chersea and of the Five Realms, Gaius, had stepped down from his divinity and lived as a mortal. In his place were the saints, each one given the god-powers formerly vested on Gaius, and came from the various races from the worlds connected by the 'crossings'.

While the lines of the human and elvish saints were established long before the downfall of the Roman god, it was the first time they were given the semi-divine responsibility of guiding their people towards the graces of heavens. The Lady Hinwe Tal-Inwir, a friend and ally of the human race, was the first elvish saint to receive the god-powers, thus, the influence and prestige of her 'office' grew among the elves.

And this is how the 'Great Schism' started...

In the elvish society, originally there were two religious factions. The first were the 'forest elves', so-called because they advocated living with the nature around them. This group was supported by the Elf Saint, as she wanted a 'sustainable' and 'secure' life for her subjects. The other side were the 'human-friends', or elves who were pushing to living like their human allies. These people, while they still maintained their pride as elves, wished to use the ancient forests of Cherwoods to their development...pretty similar to human cities in Chersea, which cleared the woodlands formerly dotted their realm.

Thus, with such different ways to live, the forest elves and human-friends decided to separate ways. The former settled in Cherwoods itself, while the latter built their cities on the fringes of the region. Still, these elves had a sense of brotherhood, and their separation was peaceful. There were cases of cooperation to a certain degree, which both sides thought was unbreakable...

And then, it happened...

The Lady Hinwe Tal-Inwir suddenly decided to improve the lives of her subjects, thus, she sought to had the forest elves learn the ways of men. Of course, they resisted, accusing her of pandering to other races. Things got even worse, when the Elf Saint proposed to use the demon methods in sustaining the agricultural produce. So much was the shock and indignation of the forest elves, that they thought the human-friends used witchcraft to prod her to do it. Naturally, the human-friends denied and fought back.

With a larger population than their enemies, it was easy to know who won in the strife that followed. The forest elves destroyed the 'stone cities' the human-friends built, and they forced the remnants to flee to far-flung places, where the former's armies couldn't easily reach them. Contact with the humans and other races was lost, and the technology of the human-friends devolved from the use of stones and masonry for their cities, to mud and grass to fortify their last settlement, Berondin.

"..."

The Black God, as someone who was there to watch the tragedy unfold for ages, could only shake his head. There were many chances the elves could've set their differences aside to work on a common goal, but they didn't; simply because of their hubris. And that hubris also caused the Seductress to be attracted in this world, since their schism had been ongoing for many ages, and built up feelings of enmity and bitterness for her to consume.

However, this time the Black God is determined to end their schism...

The disappointing news from the otherworlder, Kuro of Arles, and the refusal of the city of Elgon to fight, convinced him that he should dig in for a war of attrition. Until the Chersean elves of the Duke of Maverny attack, the fight against the Seductress would be limited to the inhabitants of Cherwoods.