Also called the Shining Folk for their incomparable beauty and the faint luminosity of their pale skin, the Fey are champions of Light who throughout the millennia have willingly sacrificed themselves again and again to defeat the forces of darkness in the World.
The Fey used to mingle freely with other races, but after the devastation of the Mage Wars, they returned to the Fading Lands, erected the Faering Mists, and withdrew from the World.
Though shei'dalins, like all Fey women, cannot kill, they can use touch to force truth from even the most hardened criminal and leave them weeping like infants.
Shei'dalins can also use their empathy as a weapon, forcing evildoers to live each acute emotion suffered by every victim impacted by their crime.
Fey men are trained from boyhood to be warriors, as fierce and deadly with magic as they are with the numerous swords and throwing daggers they wear.
Shei'tanitsa bonds ensure fertility, and truemates are the only Fey couples capable of bearing female children.
They are led by their prince, Galad Hawksheart, Lord of Valorian, whose home lies in the heart of Deepwood, and by his twin sister, Illona Brighthand, who lives in the cloudforests of the Silvermist mountains.
The Elves follow an ancient and complex prophecy called The Dance, through which it is said all the secrets of the World can be revealed.
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 delight in luring intruders to their doom.
[11] The Eld are a race of long-lived mortal beings ruled by powerful sorcerous Mages who devote their lives to mastering the darkest magics of the world.