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The Vanguard Covenant is a theological monarchy ruled over by a king and several noble houses along with being the oldest galactic superpower in the known galaxy. The Vanguard Covenant was established in the last few decades of the Age of Ruin on the elf home world of Alfheim. In the Age of Ruin the elves had sided with a legion of angels known as the vanguard legion. The elves under their command worshipped them as gods with various members of this legion serving as a vast pantheon. After the angels disappeared along with the demons the elves where left leaderless and divided amongst each other for many centuries until a single noble house managed to unite the other elven houses to face a common threat against an alien threat that wished to take control of the vast amounts of angel technology that serve as holy sites. After this new unification and defeat of this alien threat the elves organized themselves as a monarchy with the main house that united them serving as the ruling party