409:: Dahl'reisen are former Fey warriors who have been banished from the Fading Lands for killing another Fey or choosing to walk the Shadowed Path. Fey warriors pay a high price for their many gifts. Each time a Fey warrior claims a life, he takes the weight of that soul upon his. He absorbs the pain of that soul's unfulfilled promise, its darkness, its sorrows and regrets, and he carries the weight of it like a burning stone hung round his neck. Unless the warrior is lucky enough to find his truemante, the weight of the souls he has taken will eventually become too much for him to bear. When the stain on his soul grows so dark it threatens to consume him, the warrior has only two choices: sheisan'dahlein, the honor death, or becoming dahl'reisen, a lost soul, outcast from the Fading Lands, in danger of turning to Azrahn and other dark magics, doomed for eternity. Dahl'reisen live outside the bounds of Fey honor and serve as bodyguards and mercenaries to Lords and Kings. Each of them is a veteran of countless wars, and each is a brutally efficient and merciless killing machine. They are capable of many things a Fey would find abhorrent. The torment of their souls is so great, empathetic Fey women cannot bear to be near them.
397:: Tairen are the magical winged cats of the Fading Lands. Larger than dragons, they resemble giant winged panthers with pupiless, glowing eyes. Unsurpassed predators, they possess dangerous, venom-filled fangs, razor-sharp retractable claws, and they breathe fire. Tairen fire can burn anything: wood, stone, soil, even magic. The tairen live in prides in the volcanic caverns of the Feyls mountain range. Cave-riddled Fey'Bahren, the largest volcano in the Feyls, is home to the tairen nesting lair where all tairen eggs are incubated until hatching. It is on a plateau at the base of the volcano that all adolescent Fey boys gather to be judged by the makai of the Fey'Bahren pride and receive their sorreisu'kiyr, their Soul Quest crystals, after undertaking the journey of self-discovery that reveals the nature of their magic and their true soul. The Fey have a saying, "The tairen lives in us all." Although the exact relationship between the tairen and the Fey is a mystery that has been lost to the mists of time, the two species are so closely intertwined that one cannot survive without the other. If the tairen die, so too will the Fey.
317:, a master of all five Fey magics and the only living Fey capable of shapeshifting into one of the magical, winged tairen of the Fading Lands, Rain Tairen Soul has survived what no Fey ever has: the death of his mate. When the Mages killed his beloved e'tani, Sariel, during the Wars, he went mad with grief and scorched the world, decimating half an entire continent in days and turning the dark forests of Eld into smoldering ashlands. Only the combined will of every tairen and shei'dalin in the Fading Lands managed to stop him. For the last thousand years he has lived in madness and torment, waiting for another Tairen Soul to be born so he can at last join Sariel in death. Now that darkness is rising again in the homeland of his enemies, and his soul-kin the tairen are dying. Rain Tairen Soul must return to the world to confront evil once more.
305:: The adopted daughter of master woodcarver Sol Baristani and his wife, Ellysetta was found abandoned in the forest north of Norban when she was a baby. Afflicted throughout her youth by frightening, violent seizures diagnosed as demon possession, Ellysetta has always feared the dark dangers of magic, even while she's been inexorably drawn to all things Fey. The poetry and legends of the shapeshifting Rain Tairen Soul, in particular, have fascinated her all her life. And when the infamous Fey king steps from the sky to claim Ellie as his truemate, she finds herself swept into the very center of a struggle filled with the magic and darkness she has always feared, and the consuming passion she has always secretly longed for.
403:: Very rarely, a Fey warrior is born with a master's gift in all five Fey magics. These Fey become feyreisen, Tairen Souls, Fey capable of shapeshifting into a tairen, one of the great, winged cats of the Fading Lands. Tairen Souls are the fiercest defenders of the Fey, and the oldest among them becomes the Feyreisen, King of the Fading Lands, Defender of the Fey. Once there were dozens of Tairen Souls, now only Rain remains. Because of the Tairen Souls' powerful magic and their fierce natures, there has never been a shei'dalin born strong enough to be a feyreisen's truemate. Never, that is, until Rain Tairen Soul meets Ellysetta Baristani.
454:). Spirit magic appears as glowing lavender threads when woven. It is the magic of consciousness, thought, memory, sensory perception, and illusion. Fey can send and receive thoughts to and from any other conscious being using Spirit (telepathy). Masters of Spirit can weave illusion so detailed it seems like reality, render someone unconscious, plant or erase memories, control thoughts, and manipulate senses. One common use of Spirit is invisibility weaves.
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325:: The white-haired, silver-eyed High Mage of Eld. At 1,800 years old he is nearing the end of his unusually long first incarnation. After the scorching of the world, he assumed leadership over all the Mages who had escaped Rain Tairen Soul's wrath and has been quietly and secretly rebuilding the strength and power of the Mages beneath the dark, forested surface of Eld.
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with red lights. Fey are forbidden, upon pain of banishment, to wield this dark, dangerous magic, and very little is known about its uses or limitations. The Eld Mages, however, wield it freely. Through Azrahn, the Mages can claim souls and force them to do their bidding as well as summon and control demons.
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The groves and marshes of Danael serve as home to an elusive race of beings called the Danae. Although the Danae came to the aid of the Fey and Elves during the Mage Wars, they prefer to remain isolated from the rest of the world. Mortal lore is full of caution about Danae tree and water spirits who
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433:). Air magic appears as glowing white threads. It is the magic that controls the winds and other vapors. Masters of Air can summon great winds, create and disperse tornados, weave the oxygen out of an enemy's lungs, and float or glide on cushions of air.
440:). Fire magic appears as glowing red-orange threads when woven. It is the magic that controls heat, cold and energy. Masters of Fire can ignite or quench flames raise or drastically lower the temperature of any object or area, and even spawn lightning.
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447:). Water magic appears as glowing blue threads when woven. It is the magic that controls water and other liquids. Water masters can create fountains, redirect rivers, raise and lower the tides, and more.
333:: Kolis currently serves his master in Celieria, Vadim Maur. If his efforts succeed, the Fey-Celierian alliance will fall and all of Celieria will become subservient to the Mages.
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