Ardeep

Ardeep was a realm of moon elves founded during the First Flowering, around &minus;23600 DR.

Geography
The realm of Ardeep encompassed the area later known as the Ardeep Forest as well as lands north of the River Delimbiyr.

History
Ardeep was a vassal state of Shantel Othreier at the beginning of the Crown Wars. At the conclusion of the Third Crown War in &minus;10600 DR, Shantel Othreier was conquered by the Vyshaantar Empire of Aryvandaar. Ardeep continued to battle against the forces of Aryvandaar until it was conquered in &minus;10460 DR. It took the next hundred years for Aryvandaar to gain complete control and two of Ardeep's rulers were slain: Ilitharath and his grandson, Tarosspur.

After Shantel Othreier was conquered by the Vyshaantar Empire, it was taken as a vassal realm of the Empire. When the Vyshaan were dissolved, Ardeep joined with Illefarn in &minus;9000 DR. When Aelinthaldaar was razed by its own people in &minus;1100 DR, Illefarn split into three fragmented states of which Ardeep was one and became independent for the first time in many millenia.

Alliances were made with the dwarves of Dardath, the humans of Delimbiyran, the gnomes of Dolblunde and the halflings of Secomber and together they formed Phalorm in the. . Phalorm eventually fell in the, and was replaced by the Kingdom of Man. Many of the elves of Ardeep left for Evermeet at that time and most of those that remained followed in the.