Rendora

Ancient elven lands, and the city destroyed by Sorn.

Allanbay traveled the Mortal Plane, observing the lives of the elves: he shed a single golden tear at the sorrow he saw. An elven girl named Sorn comforted him with words. Allanbay rewarded her people, the elves, by bringing spring and summer to the cold lands around them. A great city named Rendora would one day grow up in the valley of the elves, and they would cherish the golden tear of Allanbay as a relic. The girl, Sorn, ascended to the Twelve Stairs with Allanbay: he married her and shared his divine power with her, making her a lesser goddess. They raised two sons, Basenbe and Malamay, who would in time become lesser gods in their own right.

When the boys were grown a little, Sorn took them to visit the city of Rendora on the mortal plane, where he people, the elves, dwelt. But the city had grown corrupt: slaves were sold in the street and dark rituals were practised openly. In her anger Sorn buried the city beneath the earth and wept into the crater she had made. The elves fled Rendora and found new homes in the forests and the deserts and elsewhere. In centuries to come the city of Greystone sprang up on the banks of the lake made by Sorn's tears, but that was a city of men.