Guardian Alodi had done his homework with his successor Medivh beforehand, learning the origins of the Heart of Azeroth.
He had to admit that the Tirisfal Council's successors only grew more outstanding with each generation.
In Alodi's era, the newly established Tirisfal Council had known very little about the world.
In human society back then, even mages knew little about the elves. Everyone took it for granted that elves were the true masters of arcane magic, and that only they could wield arcane spells with finesse.
In that age of scarce information, a vast gulf separated human and high elf civilization. This forced the nobles of the human kingdom to humble themselves before the elves, seeking their help and begging to be granted arcane lore.
If even the nobles at the top behaved this way, the commoners at the bottom felt all the more inferior.
After the Troll Wars ended, during the founding of the Arathor Empire, the elves briefly became the human kingdom's closest partners.
The kingdom had only just been established, and its elites had witnessed the power of magic during the war. Every major faction began painstakingly cultivating mages to consolidate its sphere of influence.
Mages who had survived the war also became highly sought after. On one hand, the kingdom's founding elders feared that these archmages would unite into a faction of their own and threaten their rule. On the other, they wanted to use their power to strengthen their own factions.
Thus, the nobility resorted to what they did best: corrupting the archmages with money and women.
Some archmages fell for it. Most of them had come from poverty, and their sudden transition from frugality to luxury soon clouded their judgment, leaving them intoxicated by the affluent lives money had woven for them.
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