Elf Country

Elf Country (エルフの国) is a nation of elves in the New World south of the Slane Theocracy. The nation is also currently at war with the said neighboring country.

Background
The Elf Country once had a friendly relationship with the neighboring Slane Theocracy, despite the latters prejudice towards non-humans. That was until the Elf King abducted and raped the woman who was known as the ace of the Theocracy's Black Scripture. Unfortunately for the Elf King, the Theocracy managed to rescue her and took custody of the child he impregnated her with.

Afterwards, the Theocracy began waging a war of retribution against the Elf Country. However, progress is slow as the Elf Country is mostly hard-to-traverse woodland and the war continues to this day. On the other hand, the elves are clearly on the losing side, with many being captured and enslaved.

In addition around three hundred years ago, the dark elves relocated to the country from the north.

The Ruler of Conspiracy Arc
Following the founding of the Sorcerer Kingdom, the highest authority of the Slane Theocracy, the Supreme Council, wanted to directly engage them. However, they couldn't spend the manpower as their forces were already spread thin due to the war with the Elf Country. After the Supreme Council's meeting, they decided to continue to primarily focus on their war with the Elf Country.

The Craftsman of Dwarf Arc
The Slane Theocracy started to advance deeper into the Elf Country after it committed its Holocaust Scripture to the war. Desperate, the elves pleaded to their king to use his great power and save their nation. However, the king refused to aid his own country, seeing it as a nation of weaklings. He instead intends to directly visit the Slane Theocracy himself after the Elf Country is destroyed.

The Witch of the Falling Kingdom Arc
After conquering the Re-Estize Kingdom, Sorcerer King Ainz Ooal Gown despaired at the increased workload this would bring. He thus planned to put the Sorcerer Kingdom through a practice drill in case he were to go missing, which was really just an excuse for him to go on a vacation to the Elf Country with Aura and Mare.

The Half Elf God-kin Arc
and The Half Elf God-kin II Arc

Culture
All elves within the New World especially those who live in the Elf Country see any elf with Heterochromia eyes as a sign of royal blood. At least some elves have been known to mate with other humanoids and produce half breeds. Evileye noted that the Elf Royal Family was said to bear the special characteristics of the ancestral elves.

Majority of the elves living in the country are of forest elven descent. There are dark elves living within the country, but are a minority and rarely interact with forest elves. Much information that forest elves have on dark elves is non-existent, but dark elves are nonetheless accepted as kin due to being a distant cousin race.

Even so the population of the elves is not that great and they only have one major city while the rest of the population lives in small villages spread around the forest. The population of said villages is usually less than 200 people per village. Due to the hazardous nature of the forest, filled with monsters, habitation on the ground floor is dangerous, thus the elves live an arboreal existence in the treetops. Through the power of druids, elves created elf trees, homes in the trees that were transformed using magic. Such trees formed elf villages and provided protection against the many threats in the forests. But though they were moderately safe place like a village, it was impossible for a year to pass without any casualties occurring due to monsters.

The economy of the elves within the villages is not coinage based, so they do not value precious metals like gold. Instead its subsistence based, with elves prizing good food and medicinal herbs for rare injuries like poisoning or illnesses that druids have no skill in healing.

Religion
Rather than any conventional religion, the elves' blind following of anyone of their race with heterochromia eyes implies that they worship them as gods instead.

Though they do have mention of the World of the Divine Tree, which could be related to their myths and legends.

They also have an indigenous belief in an entity known as Tsungoga.

Education
The Elf Country does not have a proper education system. The only subjects that the elves seem to only focus on is knowledge on monsters and techniques. Though they have neglected subjects such as history. Information within the country, especially on the state of the country seems fragmented and involves mostly hearsay. And it seems that the normal citizens do not even know the reason as to why their nation is at war with the Slane Theocracy or when the conflict began.

Politics
There was no name for the country of elves in the great forest of the south as the elves had no need to identify their land as something separate from the rest, so just calling it a country was enough for them. Still the elves followed a hierarchy and were ruled by a powerful king hence the Elf Country was loosely considered a kingdom.

The Elf Country appears to be an absolute monarchy, with the Elven King serving as its sole governing entity. According to hearsay the king has ruled for quite a long time from its single city within the nation. Those with heterochromia were considered blood relatives of the king and royalty.

Military Strength
Due to the natural dangers of the Great Forest of Evasha, the elves of the nation have a higher proportion of people who can fight compared to humans.

The Elf Country has a strong enough military to fight off the Slane Theocracy's, the strongest human nation in its part of the New World, for a long time. However, this is partly because the Theocracy never fully committed it's full forces to the war effort and there is still a distinct difference between the power of the Theocracy and the elf nation. This is proven when the Theocracy's progress greatly sped-up once it began to put more resources into the conflict.

The reason why elves are able to combat Theocracy's superior tactics, resources, troops, and magic items is their guerrilla tactics. To some extent, the Elf Country's military is said to be even more skilled than the Theocracy's Holocaust Scripture in this field.

It has been established that the elves within the country either specialize in druid or rangerjob professions due to their lifestyle and the harshness of the environment they live in. Hence any other professions are rare and others non-existent within the population as they are not normally practical to be used in there day to day life or for dealing with the threats that are present within it.

Foreign Relations
The Elf Country is not the official name of the country, nor has it ever been called anything else. According to Albedo, the nation probably had no reason to open diplomatic relations with other races and there were no other countries nearby, aside from the Slane Theocracy. Plus the Great Sea of Trees is so large and dangerous that it is difficult to navigate through to even allow normal relations with their possible closest neighbors outside of it.

Slane Theocracy
The two countries were once allied nations and had a mutual co-operative relationship but something went wrong and now they are at war with each other. Apparently, the Elf King kidnapped one of the Theocracy's Black Scripture members and raped her causing a deep animosity between the two nations. It appears that this knowledge is unknown to the normal elven citizenry. Elves of the country have nothing but contempt for the Theocracy, believing themselves to be victims of a belligerent force. Likewise the Theocracy considers them lower than humans and as such any captives are most often treated poorly and even kept as slaves. However in truth the higher-ups of the Theocracy have nothing against the elves and would gladly allow the elves the chance to escape from the war as their anger is towards their unforgivable king.

Until recently, the Theocracy and the Elf Country have been in a stalemate in the Great Forest of Evasha. However, upon the Theocracy deploying the Holocaust Scripture against them, the Elf Country is now being slowly overwhelmed and are expected to be soon conquered.

Baharuth Empire
While official relations have not been established, the country does own a large variety of elven slaves, so it is presumed that official relations between these two countries is not good.

The truth of the matter is they had no official diplomatic ties or ever established direct communication with each other due to both the large distance from each other and the Elf Country’s remote and isolated location. All elven slaves seem to come directly from those purchased through the Slane Theocracy that were captured as war spoils.

It has not been clearly established how formal relations will follow once the Sorcerer Kingdom establishes official relations with them, however given the Sorcerer Kingdom's policy of uniting all nations under its banner, it is presumed that the slave trade of elves will have to be abolished. For all the elven slaves who were already sold to owners within the empire, whether they either will be freed, have their owners reprimanded, or absolved has yet to be established.

Sorcerer Kingdom
The Elf Country has yet to make contact with the Sorcerer Kingdom. In fact, the Elf King doesn't even seem to be aware of the country's existence. Sorcerer King Ainz Ooal Gown, however, took an interest in the Elf Country and intended to visit it.

Eventually, after conquering the Re-Estize Kingdom, Ainz has decided to personally visit the Elf Country together with his Floor Guardians Aura Bella Fiora and Mare Bello Fiore in order to get them to make friends with their fellow elves. He was aware of the ongoing conflict the country had with the Slane Theocracy, but did not want to interfere as it would incur the Theocracy's antagonism. Instead Ainz hoped to contact the dark elves of the country and quickly evacuate them, so that Aura and Mare could have others of their kind to interact with. Due to the isolationism of the elves, news of the Sorcerer Kingdom and the waves it made has yet to reach the denizens of the country.

Trivia

 * Many of the citizens are descendants of the Elf King, but none of them possess his level of power.