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Although the name is now bitterly ironic, it was not always so. In the most ancient of times, this was the Elven homeland and here stood a great forest. When the elves fled to [[Sidhe-Praxen]] after their ejection from the region after the [[Demi-Sidhe Revolt]], the humans and half elves who lived there began to rapidly "improve" the area. The within a few centuries the forests had been clearcut away, fueling the powerful rise the eastern city-states of Old Alexia, several of which have long since been swallowed by the sand. The region prospered under cultivation, and was one of the major theaters of the [[Prophet's War]]. Eventually, after centuries of unsustainable overproduction, desertification began to set in. Although the discovery in Western Alexia of a gold mine in the 1100s(?) kept the Alexian state lurching forward, signs of the decline were evident as early as the 1000s. By the late 1200s, some cities had been desettled and the growing desert was causing political instability in Alexia. By the mid-1300s, the instability was severe enough to prompt Odessa's military occupation of Western Alexia in the late 1300s, leading to the Wydmoor-Odessan conflict that would usher in the Scism Wars.  

At some point in the last century, a forest sprang up toward its East side. It is considered haunted, and to some an omen more pressing than the Valley itself.