The Everguard of the Wood Elves
The Wood Elf Everguard was comprised of those surviving Sisters of Avelorn who served as the honour guard of the High Elven Everqueen during the End Times after the fall of Ulthuan and the move of the court of the Everqueen to the Wood Elves' realm of Athel Loren in the Old World.
The Sisters of Avelorn had guarded the Everqueen since the earliest days of the Elves of Ulthuan. That duty had not changed, though their number had. Of a sisterhood once counted by the hundred, only a few dozen remained by late in the End Times, banded together into a single honour guard dedicated to the Everqueen's protection.
This "Everguard" did not find the forest of Athel Loren much to their liking. It was somehow grimmer and darker than Avelorn, its glades oppressive and alien. But Avelorn was gone, and it was not for the Everguard to choose the realms that their mistress Alarielle deemed worthy of protection.[1a]