As you may know, my encouragement to blog is to get back into writing. Before I played WoW, I had started brainstorming a storyline, with the character Ilaria playing a strong role. The inspiration behind my druid’s name then, lies in the fact that she is, in fact, part of a race of shapeshifters in this other world. This here, is part of her story, not as a night elf, but as a Sedyhe.

Ilaria is the current Watcher for the Sedyhe, she looks over the edge of a vast wasteland called by some the Nyxantian Desert. Though normally an unlivable environment, Ilaria is an immortal and not affected as are other beings in this world. Her people, though not subject to typical aging or illness, are in certain manners capable of being destroyed, and they may not leave the Abyss beyond the desert for too long, thus their greatest weakness is in their need to replenish energy from that Source. However, while restricted in how long they may travel, they are the most adept in magic of the races, able to transform themselves into any creature, able to mimick any they see. They occasionally enjoy taking the shape of dragons for their strength and speed, although the last of the real dragons have since perished from the world. Because of this predilection, the other races are unaware of the extinction and merely consider Dragons to be a rare sighting. Many consider a sighting a sign of ill omen, and Dragons are greatly feared, even while the Sedyhe are exalted in many cultures to deification. Godlike in many ways, they do not consider themselves upon the same level as the deities worshipped.. instead they imagine that it is these gods that are the source of their, and every other race’s, magical power. And magical indeed they are not only in their ability to mimick any living being and adjust their forms at will, but also to make their forms invisible to the untrained eyes, able to conjure and manipulate elements, thoughts, and even able to form entirely new races. If the gods are the source of the power, neutral and afar, the Sedyhe are the strongest keepers of that power, watching over the world with it close up. But while they all watch over the doings of other races, it is Ilaria the Watcher, who protects and searches for a relic long lost to her people, that which can replenish their race, capable of bringing a new era, without which they will surely falter to their enemies, one by one. The power to create new Sedhye children is something that must be closely guarded, but while protecting this secret, it was inadvertently misplaced. Magical as they may be, the Seydhe do not possess the omniscience of the gods, thus are they desperate to reclaim what they lost. And they are nearly out of time.

Ilaria is gifted, she the last of her race with the ability of foretelling. The last hope to restore the lost Seydhe realm is resting with her and a foretelling of many years ago, a vestige of hope they had almost lost. She knows the relic is out there, passing unrecognized within another culture, that their greatest enemy has not yet discovered its presence. And it is up to them all to find the bearer, before the Legion does.

~ by lily on August 5, 2009.

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