Thread:Mechemik/@comment-24448826-20180403071839/@comment-24448826-20180417195903

Josh, you actually guessed it. The Blue Mountains are indeed said to be ruled by "free elves", who maintain next to no contact with humanity or the rest of Aen Seidhe. Ida Emean is their chief Aen Saevherne and the mountains themselves are home to many other sages. Filavandrel, Vanadain and Ida are the most influential among the free elves with the first apparently being a ruler. Considering how Ida is important Knowing One, that seems to leave Vanadain as Eredin to Filavandrel's Auberon.

To explain why he isn't called king, according to Avallach in The Tower of the Swallow, elven rulers aren't called "kings". Enid became a monarch under human conditions while "The King of the Alders" is more of an alias used for Auberon to explain his position.