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The Westland is the location of the creation of the Firstborn, the Elves. They were brought forth from the ocean, mere miles from the future location of the city of Chansond’eau. This was where they first settled, living in peace together. When Melkor appeared and began to send his evil creatures to destroy the elves, they rallied together and fought against them for the next three thousand years. At last the evil was dispelled, and they tried to return to their former lives. However, despite the fact that the evil creatures had been dispelled, their effects remained: seeds of doubt and distrust had been planted, and the elves segregated themselves into two different groups: those whom they referred to as the Light Elves, those who had golden hair, and those whom they referred to as the Dark Elves, those with black hair. Dissention rose between the groups until the Dark Elves left the west and headed south to create their own kingdom, under the guidance of a young woman named Alyse.

The Light Elves gathered themselves under a man named Aubrey, who ruled the Westland until the end of the Third Age. Yet even under his rule, not all was well: there were some Light Elves who were unhappy with the separate of the races, who chose to leave the rest of the Light Elves, saying that they were too pretentious. Barely a century into the Second Age, they sailed, leaving the Four Lands entirely.

At the end of the Third Age, the Light Elves were once again called to war: this time, to come to the aid of the Southland Elves, the Dark Elves, who had been attacked by the dwarfs. King Aubrey was killed in this war, and his son, Eregon, began to reign in his stead. King Eregon was unusual for a Light Elf. Not only did he consider the two races of Elves to be one and the same, different only in appearance, but he even took a Dark Elf, daughter of the new Southland ruler, to be his wife.

Now the kingdom lives in peace, slowly rebuilding its rapport with the other elven kingdoms as its people learn to accept those who are different from themselves.

The government in the Westland is a patriarchal monarchy, ruled by a king until his death. If there is no prince to take his place, only then will his wife, the queen, take power.

The elves pay homage to the Valar, the creators of the world, and above them, Ilúvatar, who gave them life. Mettarë, the first day of the year, is a day of looking ahead to what’s to come, and the elves celebrate it with a festival, during which they pray to the Valar for blessings in the year ahead, everything from health to good weather for crops, good hunting, and so on. During the days of the Enderi, the three (or six) days that are not a part of any month, there is a three-day celebration of the growth of the crops, a final fun fling before the harvest begins. The final day of the year, Yestarë, is the final day of celebration, and it begins with a ritual washing of the body, symbolically washing away the maladies of the past so that they can begin the new year afresh.

For thousands of years, the Westland Elves were born without magic, and in their early years would have to visit the Gift-Giver in order to receive magical gifts. At the end of the Second Age, the beginning of the Third Age, with no explanation, the Westlanders began to be born with magical gifts that would manifest themselves when the children reached the ages of anywhere between five and nine years old. The later the gift manifested, the more powerful it usually would be. There is no limit to what the magic might be.

The magic that they are born with, or for the older generations, given, is the only magic that the Westland elves can use. They do not have the ability to learn magic or use spells or the like.