The Empire Of Kar'daj

The Empire of Kar'daj was an Elven empire, founded in the year 0. It was large, spanning hundreds of thousands of square kilometers, and dominant in the Lake Darry region for 2000 years. It's reign was ended abrutly by The Cataclysm, an apocalyptic event brought on by the wizards of Kar'daj.

Kar'daj was ruled by a series of empresses.

Expansion
The Kar'dajians relied on rocs, huge birds that gave the empire's army mobility and control of the skies. While they were able to expand rapidly across the continent, they left (and in some cases tolerated) many pockets of resistance in heavily forested or underground regions that could not be easily controlled using rocs.

The Kar'dajians built The Narrows as a way of bypassing the stubborn Dwarves of Ironmount.