Dark Wars | Tyrrapedia: Encyclopedia of Tyrra

In the seventh century of King Galavier's rule, a great influx of elementals came to Tyrra and wreaked destruction upon much of the continent of Avalon. To the Quentari Elves, this was the First Dark War. Much of the forested lands once populated by Quentari settlements were razed and scorched. Over half of Quentari’s population was lost to these powerful and devastating attacks.

The Quentari army, lead by the Elven King and the Crown Prince Elenaro, held the last of the defensive lines along the Greenmarch Mountains and on the borders of the Taursiloriel. King Galavier fell in a battle against the first leader of the Destruction elementals, Gurthaiya. The elemental attacks then lessoned, perhaps due to the loss of the elementals' warlord, perhaps due to some secretive magics woven in Helevorn, or perhaps due to the encroachment of other races' armies who launched attacks on the elemental strongholds.

Before the Quentari Elves had a chance to rebuild and their forest homelands could regrow, the elementals regrouped under the command of another powerful being of Destruction known as Guxx Unfadoo. The uprising in attacks began the Second Dark War. In final defense of Quentari, King Elenaro wielded a great magical weapon, the Haran Gurthol, against Guxx. In the battle that destroyed Guxx, the King’s spirit became imprisoned in the protective amulet he wore, and no one knew of his plight for four-hundred years.

Also lost in the final battle was Janithil "Janus" Dolumbar, one of the elite military corps who served the Royal House in the First and Second Dark Wars. Instead of meeting his final death, Janus was corrupted by the elemental magics, and would eventually manifest as the second incarnation of Guxx four-hundred years later.