The cult of Eln rose to prominence in the unsettled wilds of Caanan, even as it was slowly being conquered by Kuzai'Ro. While the tribes shared the same religion, they continued to battle each other as the were being colonized. The tribes would ally with units of the Kuzai'Ro army against each other. Thus it wasn't until it was too late that they realized even their lands would be conquered. They began to fortify a region owned by one of the more advanced tribes that had begun carving its oral history on bone tablets, and this area was under constant seige by the Kuzai'Ro for years, but it finally fell. This did not stop the religion, though, which by now had adopted many surrounding deities, and assumed the belief that Eln was the god who had many avatars. Prophets to Eln were mummified after death and hung outside of villages so that their corpses would become the future avatars of Eln. They would hear of this in the land where Eln sleeps, the magical other side of the world. The religion was in danger of being converted away until the election of Elnihd.