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Vothendrile Xanthile

**Vothendrile Xanthile**, or **Vothe** for short, is a Zhilonn'ile Wyvern and a Vu Trin military apprentice at the Wyvernguard.

## Physical Description

Vothe is tall, strong, and has a honed and muscular body. His black eyes spark with lightning and his pupils are vertically slitted. He has the sculpted features and dark eyes of the Noi. His black hair is short and slightly spiked, and the spikes are tipped in glittering silver. A series of silver hoops rim his pointed ears. Thin threads of lightning crackle all over his midnight-black skin. His stance is regally assured. He wears the sapphire uniform of Vu Trin military apprentices. Vothe has gleaming black horns that spiral up from his head and wings, both of which he can keep hidden using a glamour.

## Biography

### The Shadow Wand

Vothe is present when Trystan Gardner arrives at the Wyvernguard. Vothe is assigned as Trystan's daytime guard.

## Powers & Abilities

As a wyvern, he has enhanced senses, particularly sight and smell. For example, he can smell fear and he can smell magic auras. He is also able to shapeshift. His species of dragon is able to control the weather. Vothe has wind magic and lightning magic. His storm power is palpable as he is very powerful. He is able to glamour his horns and wings.

## Relationships

### Trystan Gardner

Trystan and Vothe are both immediately attracted to each other, as is their magic. Upon meeting, their powers collide. Trystan thinks Vothe is the "most dazzlingly beautiful young man he's ever seen." However, Vothe immediately hates Trystan because of who his family is. But Vothe can't help but admire the fact that Trystan is not intimidated by the force of the members of the Wyvernguard's hatred for him.
Smaragdalfar Elf

**Smaragdalfar Elves** are a species of green-scaled Elves that live underground.

## Physical Appearance

Smaragdalfar Elves look reptilian. Their bodies look scaled in appearance, though are completed covered in a small, jeweled pattern that resembles scales. They have long hair that matches their skin color. Like the Alfsigr Elves, they have gracefully pointed ears and silver eyes. They wear deep green tunics and pants with looping black embroidery edging their garments.

## History

The Smaragdalfar have been imprisoned underground by the Alfsigr as laborers in the mines. Even young children are given lumenstone quotas, and if they don't meet them, they're beaten and sometimes killed. The Gardnerian Mage Guard is helping to enslave the Smaragdalfar. The Gardnerians are aligned with the Alfsigr militarily because the Gardnerian Guilds benefit from access to the mines.

The Smaragdalfar Elves have always had close ties with the wyvern shifters. They were closely allied during the Realm War. The wyverns tried to free the Smaragdalfar from the Alfsigr during the Realm War, but they failed. Most were murdered and the rest were imprisoned with the Smaragdalfar in the sublands. The Alfsigr placed Elfin-steel bands around the shifters' wrists and ankles. These bands would cripple the wyverns if they shifted, so they are bound in human form.

## Culture

Smaragdalfar Elves are forced to work in mines deep below the Alfsigr Lands by the Alfsigr Elves. They are locked in their underground cities and controlled with mine demons and pit dragons. The Gardnerians and the Alfsigr despise them and call them Deep-Earth Elves and Snake Elves. These are considered very derogatory names. The Gardnerians believe they are dangerous criminals.

## Language

They speak Smaragdalfar, which is called "Low Alfsigr" by the Alfsigr Elves. The Smaragdalfar language is older than the Alfsigr language. It's incredibly insulting to call it "Low Alfsigr."

### Known Words

* *Al'mya*: term of endearment for a child
* *Ma'mya*: mother
* *Fav'ya*: father
* *Ohn*: no
* *Silhe'lk*: frighten
* *Sile'lk*: small fish
* *Ti'a'lin*: Beloved
* *Eyil'lynorin*: The White Wand
* *Ti'a'elon*: I love you

## Religion

The Smaragdalfar Elves' goddess is called *Oo'na*. She is also known as the Great Mother.

## Powers & Abilities

Smaragdalfar Elves have the ability to glamour their appearance. They also have magic through the use of runes. Those who practice magic are called rune-sorcerers and rune-sorcereresses. Smaragdalfar Elf runes are a glowing emerald green. They are circular and made of telescoping, geometric designs.

## Known Members

* Ra'Ven Za'Nor
* Fyon Hawkkyn
* Fyn'ir Za'Nor
* Za'yalor Nyvor
* Na'bee Nyvor
* Nil'ya
* To'yir
* Mora'lee
* Tamalyyn
Zeymir Nyvor

**Zeymir Nyvor** is an Ishkart from a higborn rune-sorcerer family. He has a blacksmith shop at Verpax University.

## Physical Description

Zeymir has deep brown skin and long black hair. He has a black beard and wears his hair tied back in looping, braided coils. He wears a golden headband emblazoned with three runes that blaze a bright gold. He wears bright yellow clothing decorated with an entrancing purple star design. He has a golden aura.

## Biography

### Early History

Zeymir has been cast out by his own people.

### Light Mage

Zeymir owns and operates a smithy in Verpax City. He lives with his lover Za'yalor, his son Na'bee, Wyla, and Ra'Ven.

## Powers & Abilities

Zeymir is a powerful and talented rune-sorcerer and a fierce rune-warrior.
Effrey

**Effrey** is an Urisk child who works in Heloise Florel's dress shop.

## Physical Description

Effrey is about eight years old. He is skinny. He has sizable, pointed ears. His skin has a violet hue, and his eyes are purple. His hair is a deep purple. Eventually, he gets a pair of glasses.

## Personality

Effrey is frantic. He relies on Sparrow to help him navigate the Gardnerian world.

## Biography

### The Black Witch

Elloren Gardner meets Effrey when she visits Mage Florel's shop for the first time upon arriving in Valgard. Effrey appears to be a female Urisk. Fallon Bane is cruel to Effrey, calling her an "overgrown bat."

### The Shadow Wand

It is revealed that Effrey is actually a male Urisk, which is incredibly rare as the Gardnerians had been believed to have killed them all. Effrey is in hiding as a female Urisk and tries to keep his geomancy a secret.

After Fallon ruins Mage Florel and her business, the Banes purchase Effrey and Sparrow, then ship them to the labor camps on the Fae Islands. Sparrow, Effrey, and Raz'zor escape to mainland Gardneria.

Elloren is the one to realize that Effrey is so clumsy because he needs glasses. Sparrow is able to find him a pair.

Effrey, Sparrow, Raz'zor, Aislinn Greer, and Thierren Stone escape towards the Eastern Realm.

## Powers & Abilities

As a male Urisk, Effrey is a geomancer, although he is untrained. Effrey can mindlink to wyverns, a rare trait among Urisk.
Erthia

**Erthia** is the name of the world in which The Black Witch Chronicles takes place.

### Inhabitants

Gardnerians
Kelts
Alfsigr Elves
Smaragdalfar Elves
The Amaz
Fae
Urisk
Elfhollen

## Description

Erthia is similar to our own world, but has its own geography and history. Technology is at the Medieval level. This world contains magic and fantasy races as well as human-like races.

## Western Realm

The present day Western Realm, meaning after the Realm War, consists of the following borders:

* North: Icelandic Mountains and the Northern Caldonian Mountains.
* South: Keltania, Southern Caldonian Mountains, and The Wastelands, which were formerly Uriskan, which was the home of the Urisk.
* West: The Western Ocean is the farthest western border, then Pyrran and Fae Islands are within the Voltic Sea.
* East: Eastern Pass, which leads through deserts to the Eastern Realm.

### Western Realm Locations

* Alfsigr Lands
* Amazakaran Territory
* Gardneria
* Keltania
* Lupine Territories
* Verpacia

## Eastern Realm

The Eastern Realm consists of the following borders:

* North: The country of Zhilaan.
* Middle: Going through the middle of the Eastern Realm are two large rivers that empty into the Salish Ocean, the Zonor and the Vo Rivers. Between these rivers is the Vo Mountains, with the Wyvernguard sitting east of these mountains.
* West: Dyoi Desert, Dyoi Forest, and then the Dyoi Mountains.
* East: Country of Noilaan, the Voloi Mountains Range, which contains the Issani military base named Voloni, and the Eastern Ocean.
* South: Salish Ocean and the Salishen Isles, where the Salish people live.

### Eastern Realm Locations

* Dyoi
* Voloni
* Noilaan
* Salishen Isles
* Wyvernguard

## Mid-Continent

Between the Western and Eastern Realms is the mid-continent area. It consists of large areas of various deserts. Its borders are:

* North: Northern Ice Ocean. Below it is the Northern Mountains.
* Center: A region called Issaan. Bordering this region are four deserts:
	1. The Issani Desert
	2. The Dyoi Desert
	3. The Ishkart Desert
	4. The Agolith Desert: Chi Nam's Vonor is hidden here
* South: South Ocean, the Salish Ocean, and the country of Ishkartaan

## Notes

### Time

Although it is not explicitly stated, it appears as if the universe in The Black Witch Chronicles operates on a calendar similar to our own. The books reference all the seasons by name, summer, fall, winter, and spring, but they do not use the same names for months, days, or hours. For example, in *The Iron Flower*, a rule is passed that will be enforced by the "fifth month" and characters meet at the "fifth hour."

## Gallery

The Western Realm prior to the Realm War.The Western Realm after the Realm War.The Eastern RealmThe Mid-Continent region
Daciana Ulrich

**Daciana Ulrich** is a Lupine and a healer. She is Diana, Jarod, and Kendra's mother. She is the mate of Gunther Ulrich.

## Physical Description

Daciana is tall and lean. She strongly resembles her son Jarod. She has long, blond hair that she pulls back with a tie and amber eyes. She wears an earth-toned tunic over pants and sturdy boots.

## Personality

Daciana is kind, smart, and caring. She is uncomfortable outside of her pack's territory. Daciana clearly loves her children and is much quieter, but no less fierce, than her mate.

## Biography

### The Iron Flower

Daciana arrives at Verpax University with her family and close friends for Founder's Day. She is introduced to Rafe Gardner by Diana. At first, she is reluctant to meet the Gardner siblings, and a bit dazed by the quick acceptance of them by Gunther. She ends up talking quietly with Trystan. Daciana clearly wishes the Gardners would leave her family alone. She is stunned and heartbroken upon learning Jarod is in love with Aislinn Greer. She expresses her regret about sending Jarod and Diana to Verpax where they both fell in love with Gardnerians.

Daciana, along with the other Lupines except for Diana and Jarod, is brutally and horrifically murdered by Marcus Vogel and his Shadow Wand.

## Powers & Abilities

As a Lupine, Daciana's most formidable power is her ability to shapeshift between her wolf and human forms. She is immune to wand magic. She has superior senses, no matter which form she is in. She can smell the emotions of others, including levels of attraction people have for each other. She can also hear across large distances. She is viciously strong.
Evelyn Grey

**Evelyn Grey** is Lachlan Grey's fastmate and Lukas Grey's mother.

## Physical Description

Evelyn is intimidatingly beautiful. She's tall and finely dressed. She holds herself in a regal manner, much like Vyvian Damon. Her black velvet tunic is conservatively high in the collar, and both her tunic and long-skirt are devoid of embellishment. Evelyn's beauty is severe. Her green eyes are hard and cold. Lukas clearly gets his stunning looks and fiercely commanding presence from her. There's a shock of white-silver running through her ebony hair. Her skin is pale with an emerald shimmer.

## Personality

Evelyn is cold and cruel. She despises Elloren and doesn't show love or affection towards her children.

## Biography

### The Shadow Wand

The Vu Trin stage another attempt on Elloren's life at her Sealing breakfast. The Vu Trin blow up the Grey estate, killing Lukas's entire family. Elloren and Lukas had already begun their escape so they were not there.

## Powers & Abilities

As a female Gardnerian, Evelyn most likely has little magic.
Fernyllia Hawthorn

By @Caffeinated\_Dreams

**Fernyllia** is an older Urisk and the Kitchen Mistress at Verpax University.

## Physical Description

Fernyllia is a plump, elderly woman. She has rose-tined white skin, hair, and eyes, marking her as a lower class Urisk. She has calloused hands from her years spent laboring in the kitchens.

## Personality

Despite her pain and grief, Fernyllia is strong and works to help others. She is steely but not unkind.

## Biography

Fernyllia was married before the Realm War. The Gardnerians killed her husband and young son.

### The Black Witch

* Sides with Iris and Bleddyn when they gang up on Elloren during her first shift in the kitchens.
* Comes around to Elloren.

## Powers & Abilitie

As a female Urisk, Fernyllia doesn't have magic.

## Memorable Quotes

* "We don't get to choose what we are. But we do get to choose who we are."
Styvius Gardner

**Styvius Gardner** is Elloren Gardner's ancestor, about six generations back. Gardneria's history also begins with him.

## Physical Description

As a Gardnerian, Styvius has black hair, green eyes, and pale skin with an emerald shimmer.

## Biography

### The Black Witch

Styvius was born to a Mage mother when the Kelts were the region's ruling power. He was a "half-breed" born into Keltic society, and was one of the despised Kelt-Dryad Mages. He was different from others like him though because his magic was not weak. From early on it was apparent that the magic in his veins was much stronger than any Mage who had ever been born. He could summon fire with a ferocity never before seen and create tornadoes out of small breezes. When he was eight, he saw a Kelt overseer viciously beating his mother. He was so angry that he killed the overseer by setting him on fire with wand magic. The Kelts responded by sending out soldiers to kill him. They murdered his mother as she tried to shield him. The Kelts planned on killing every Mage in the village to "teach them a lesson." Driven mad by the death of his mother, Styvius killed every soldier in sight. Then he set out and killed every Kelt in his village and all the surrounding villages, men, women, and children. He kept going and quickly developed a predilection for torture. The Kelts tried to kill Styvius, but he was invincible. Eventually, they fled from northern Keltania, sending Mages to settle there to placate Styvius. The Mages obviously loved Styvius, seeing him as their liberator and giving them a homeland while exacting vengeance on the Kelts.

When he became an adult, he became a religious zealot. He created the Gardnerian religion that taught they were the First Children and the rightful owners of Erthia. He claimed he was the Ancient One's prophet. He wrote the last chapter of *The* *Book of the Ancients* and called it *The Blessed Mages.* He renamed his people Gardnerian Mages, declared northern Keltania to be "The Republic of Gardneria" and installed himself as High Mage.

A major part of *The Blessed Mages* is the creation of the commandment of wandfasting. It stated that Gardnerian women were to wandfast to Gardnerian men at an early age to keep their magic affinity lines pure and their Mage blood untainted. Styvius created the highly protected spells that are still used for the Gardnerian sacrament. Women who broke their wandfasting commitment with non-Gardnerians were to be struck down as brutally as possible, along with their non-Gardnerian lovers. The men's families were also to be killed, as a lesson to all. A Banishment ceremony was required to exorcise the Evil out of the woman from her family.

## Powers & Abilities

Styvius was an incredibly powerful Mage. His affinities were for fire and wind.

## Trivia

* The most strict and conservative sect of Gardnerian religion is called the Styvian sect. This sect is most likely named for Styvius.
Rhys Thorim

## Rhysindor Thorim

**Rhysindor "Rhys" Thorim** is an Alfsigr Elf. He is Cael Eirllyn's bonded second. He is a member of the Alfsigr royal class.

## Physical Description

Rhys has white skin and hair. His eyes are silver. He is young and willowy. Rhys is armed with a bow and quiver and wears Elfin blades strapped to his belt.

## Personality

Rhys is kind and gentle. He has a "searing intellect and bookish ways." He has been loyal to Cael and Wynter his whole life.

## Biography

### The Shadow Wand

Cael and Rhys have been renounced by the Alfsigr Royal Council when they return to Alfsigroth and have been taken into military custody. They will be sentenced to the sublands for helping Wynter to escape capture.

## Relationships

### Wynter Eirllyn

Rhys has been in love with Wynter for as long as he can remember. Wynter is incredibly fond of him. Because of the Zalyn'or, their emotions are controlled and subdued.
Kendra Ulrich

**Kendra Ulrich** is a Lupine and the youngest child of the Southern Alpha, Gunther Ulrich. She is the sister of Diana and Jarod Ulrich.

## Physical Description

Kendra is like a younger and shorter version of Diana, but with a lot more frantic energy. She has amber eyes and blond hair. She wears a necklace decorated with a variety of teeth. She's ten-years-old.

## Personality

Kendra is very energetic. She is curious, fierce, and a great hunter.

## Biography

### Early History

Kendra lives with her family in the Southern Lupine Territory. She writes letters to Diana and Jarod while they're away at university. She loves to draw and collects rocks. She is also a talented watercolor artist.

### The Iron Flower

Kendra arrives at Verpax University with her parents and her father's guards for Founder's Day. She is ecstatic over seeing Diana. She is very curious about Rafe Gardner. She quickly takes to Uncle Edwin when he arrives. She is flummoxed that people can only have a "pack" of four, like the Gardners. She explains to Edwin that she has her parents, siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles, four best female friends, and three best male friends.

Kendra, along with the other Lupines except for Diana and Jarod, is brutally and horrifically murdered by Marcus Vogel and his Shadow Wand.
Watchers

Watchers

**Watchers** are large white birds with huge, fanning wings.

## Physical Description

The Watchers are birds whose coloring is so light it seems iridescent. Their stare is fixed and intelligent. They have a silver beak. They have a feeling of otherworldliness. They also tend to bring a sense of foreboding with them.

### Other Names

* *Ahnxils*: in Noi
* *Visay'un*: in the Amaz language

## Biography

### Early History

The Watchers are a symbol within many of the religions in the Western Realm. They are depicted on the uniforms of the Gardnerian military. Wynter creates a tapestry with an image of the Watchers on it.

### The Black Witch

The Watchers appear to Elloren Gardner as a form of guidance. The first time Elloren sees the Watchers, they bring her to Sage Gaffney. Sage tells her that the Watchers appear during times of great darkness and that they want Elloren to have the White Wand.

One appears to Elloren again when she is at the Great Cathedral in Valgard. It warns her before the two Icarals attack her.

Wynter tells Elloren that the birds are messengers of the Shining Ones in her religion. Only the most holy may look upon them. For the impure to gaze upon them is blasphemy.

### The Iron Flower

Elloren notices that the tapestry at the head of the Queenhall in Cyme shows the Amaz's Great Goddess surrounded by hundreds of white birds that look very much like the birds that have appeared to her and that make up Wynter's sculptures and tapestries. Valasca explains that they are called the *Visay'un*, and they're the Goddess's messenger birds made of her light.

## Trivia

* In the Noi language, they call the Watcher the *Ahnxils.*
Tierney Calix

By @Caffeinated\_Dreams

**Tierney Calix** is a close friend of Elloren Gardner. She is an Asrai Fae.

## Physical Appearance

Tierney was glamoured as a child to look Gardnerian so that she could be hidden. Her glamour purposely makes her look like one of the uglies girls Elloren has ever seen. It was done deliberately so nobody would want to wandfast to her. Tierney is reed-thin, and she appears bent with her back twisted to the side, trapping her in an odd and unforgiving posture. Her face is sharp and her noise is unevenly hooked. Her straight black hair is oily and uncombed. She frequently has a resentful look in her green eyes.

In her true Fae form, Tierney has blue skin, hair, and eyes. She is very beautiful. Her hair is long and her skin is a rippling dark blue hue. She has pointed ears. She recieves a Noi translation rune behind her ear.

## Personality

Tierney is usually guarded and cynical. She is also grim and sarcastic.

## Biography

### Early History

Tierney was adopted by a Gardnerian family who was close to her Fae parents when she was three. The family took in their children after they were murdered. She and her younger brother were glamoured to appear Gardnerian. Her glamour deliberately made her appear ugly so nobody would want to wandfast to her. Tierney's adoptive father is a glassmaker.

Tierney is desperately in love with her adopted father's apprentice, Leander Starke. It's unknown if he reciprocates these feelings, but Tierney knows it doesn't matter because she can't fast to someone without revealing her Fae identity. He ends up fasting to Grasine Pelthiier.

### The Black Witch

* She is worried because the Guilds are beginning to introduce mandatory iron-testing, meaning she'll be caught if she tries to join one.
* She lodges with Fallon Bane, Paige Snowden, Diana Ulrich, and Echo Flood.
* She takes the class "Apothecarium I" with Elloren. She tells Elloren that she hopes she fasts to Lukas because it will make Fallon angry.
* Fallon taunts Tierney about the boy she loves, Leander Starke, being wandfasted to a Gardnerian named Grasine Pelthier.

## Powers & Abilities

As an Asrai Fae, Tierney has control over water. However she can have trouble restraining her abilities, especially when emotional. She also has the ability to summon kelpies. Tierny can draw on the affinities of others, Fae and Gardnerian. As an Asrai, she can see and breathe underwater. Her Noi translation rune also allows her to understand and speak Noi.

## Memorable Quotes

* "I'll figure out for myself who's a demon and who's not."
Wyvern

Wyvern by Kerembeyit

**Wyverns**, also called **dragons**, are shapeshifters that have a human form and a dragon form.

## Physical Appearance

Wyverns appear different depending on the species. Gardnerian military dragons are black as night with wings of sharp feathers that resemble dull blades. The Gardnerian military dragons are emaciated with bodies that hint at their underlying skeleton. They are very strong, with long mouths full of sharp teeth and large talons. Broken wyverns have milky, opaque, soulless eyes.

## History

It is suspected that Icarals have Wyvern blood because they share the black feathered wings of the western wyvern-shifters. The only difference is that they cannot hide their wings. All the Gardnerian military dragons are broken wyvern-shifters. They used powerful geomancy to imprison them in their dragon forms.

## Types

There are different types of dragonkin.

* **Zhilon'ile Wyverns**: Control the weather, and are tall and stunnningly attractive. They are onyx in coloring shot through with pulses of bright white lightning.
* **Pit Dragon**: A particularly vicious type of dragon that are forcibly kept in their dragon form. They're used as weapons and for sport by Gardnerians.
* **Vhion'ile**:
* **Moonskin**: A type of pit-dragon.
* **Water Dragon**:
* **Gardnerian Military Dragon**: Black wyverns that have been broken and thus can no longer shift.

## Powers & Abilities

Wyverns can breathe fire. However, they lose this ability when they become broken. Wyverns also have shapeshifting powers. They can change their physical form between a wyvern form and a human form. Dragons can make vows of fealty. The bond of fealty requires a few drops of blood to form a blood bond. The pledge of fealty means that those involved are part of a horde, and their fires strengthen each other.

## Known Members

* Naga
* Raz'zor
* Vothendrile Xanthile

## Trivia

* A group of Wyverns is called a horde. A Wyvern horde shares fire and feeds fire.
Ray

**Ray** is a Selkie and the lover of Beck Keeler. She gives birth to Gareth Keeler.

## Physical Description

Ray is incredibly beautiful. She has silver hair. Her skin is translucent and so pale it's almost blue. Her body is lithe and graceful. There are gills on both sides her neck that look like slender rows of silver slits. Her eyes are very large and pale gray, like the sea.

## Biography

### Early History

Ray was captured by Gardnerian men. When the realized they had lost her skin, they tossed her overboard. Beck discovered her drifting in the ocean. Because Seklies can't transform without their skin, Ray is trapped in her human form and cannot go home. She and Beck became lovers, and about a year and half later, she became pregnant.

### Wandfasted

Beck brings her and a newborn Gareth to Vale Gardner's cottage on the Voltic Sea. He hopes to hide Ray and Gareth there because it is no longer safe for her to be on his ship.
Damion Bane

**Damion Bane** is Fallon Bane's older brother and the Commander of the Fourth Division of the Gardnerian military.

## Physical Description

Damion has the same features as his sister Fallon, with stunning eyes and a smug grin. He is taller than his brother, Sylus. Once he becomes fasted, he has black fastmarks on his hands and wrists.

## Personality

Damion is a cruel, malicious, xenophobe who likes hurting people. Elloren knows that he and his friends like to abuse the Urisk workers at the University knowing that no one will do anything about it. He makes his sister "seem like a pussycat."

## Biography

### The Black Witch

* Attends Vyvian Damon's ball with Fallon and Sylus.
* Threatens Olilly after Elloren accidentally breaks Fallon's portrait of Lukas Grey. He thinks Olilly took it because she is in charge of cleaning Fallon's dormitory. Yvan and Elloren arrive in the kitchens and are able to rescue her.
* After Naga is rescued, Damion loses his command of the Fourth Division.

### The Shadow Wand

Damion attacks Elloren at the Victory Celebration. He reveals to her that they were almost fasted. Vyvian had given consent for Elloren to fast to Damion. He was there, ready to do the binding ceremony, when Lukas showed up. He also tells Elloren that "all the fight's been beaten out" of his fastmate, revealing he was fasted to Aislinn.

## Powers & Abilities

Damion is a powerful Level Five Mage. His affinity is for water, which he uses in the form of ice.

## References

1. ↑ *The Black Witch*: page 247
2. ↑ *The Shadow Wand*: page 240
Bartholomew Harrow

**Bartholomew Harrow** is Tessla and Wren Harrow's grandfather.

## Physical Description

Like all Gardnerians, Bartholomew has pale skin with an emerald shimmer, black hair, and green eyes. He's elderly and crippled. His face is haggard and lined. His skin is papery and he is very thin.

## Personality

Bartholomew is gentle and doddering, but stubborn. He is stanchly religious, with an overwhelming hatred of Kelts. He can foolishly and blindly heed Gardnerians' religious strictures. For example, he won't allow Tessla to learn magic because their religion barrs women from wielding wands without first securing the Mage Council's approval. Bartholomew has a daft, head-in-the-clouds benevolence. His well-meaning incompetence is a source of endless trouble for Tessla.

## Biography

### Early History

After Tessla and Wren's parents die, they come to Doveshire in Keltania to live with their grandfather.

### Wandfasted

Bartholomew, Tessla, and Wren are trying to leave for Verpacia, but due to Bartholomew's stubborness, they flee too late and are caught up in the Purge.
Icaral

Ariel Haven; By @Caffeinated Dreams

**Icarals** are a race that is considered evil by many other races in Erthia.

## Physical Appearance

The unifying feature of Icarals are their black, feathered wings. Otherwise, Icarals vary greatly in appearance. Icarals who have their wings removed or damaged are called "broken Icarals." Icarals who have their wings ared called the "Winged." Broken Icarals have milky-white eyes, gaunt faces, and tattered wings. They also have a foul smell like rotted meat. Mixed-blood Icarals may appear entirely similar as their other race, except for their wings. Icarals are also very strong when they are not weakened by Nilantyr, a powerful and addictive sedative.

## History

No one knows for sure where Icarals come from. They have popped up in virtually every race as far back as can be remembered. Practically every race's religion cast the Icarals as demonic beings. Like the Fae, they can be full of unpredictable power. They are often dangerous as children, most likely because they have wyvern blood. Jules Kristian postulates that Icarals are so universally hated because their existence interferes with cherished ideas of racial purity that the other races of the Western Realm have.

After the Realm War, the Gardnerians began imprisoning Icarals in the Valgard Sanitorium. As part of the international treaty following the Realm War, other countries, such as Verpacia, are bound to surrender male Icarals to Gardneria because of the The Gardnerian Prophecy. Imprisonment of female Icarals is still voluntary and at the discretion of the Icaral's family.

## Powers & Abilities

* Fire Magic - Icarals possess fire magic.
* Empaths - Some Icarals are also empaths, meaning they can read a person's thoughts and feelings through touch.
* Commune with winged animals - Icarals can speak to other winged animals.

## Known Members

* Ariel Haven
* Wynter Eirllyn
* Fyn'ir Za'Nor
* Yvan Guriel
* Valentin Guryev
* Vestus
* Pyrgomanche Feyir

## Gallery

Wynter Eirllyn; by @Caffeinated DreamsYvan Guriel; by @Caffeinated Dreams
## Trivia

* The Alfsigr Elves call them Deargdul Icarals.
Fae

**The Fae** are a race in Erthia.

Fae Elemental Magic

## Physical Description

The physical appearance of the Fae depends on the type of Fae they are. Fae that have control over the elements have hair, eyes, and skin color that matches their element. For example, Asrai Fae control water and their hair, eyes, and skin are blue. All the Fae have pointed ears.

## History

The Fae originated from the Fae Islands. After the Realm War, almost all the Fae in the Western Realm are dead or in hiding. The Fae have been systematically hunted down and killed by Gardneria. Gardnerian history teaches their people that the Sidhe Fae subdued and ruled over the Urisk. Later, the Kelts subdued the Fae in what seemed like an endless cycle of warfare and violence.

## Language

Each type of Fae have their own language. For example, the Dryads speak Dryadin and the Water Fae speak Asrai.

### Known Words:

* *Myl'lynian'ir*: Come out, my friend in Asrai
* *Fil'lori mir Asrai'il*: My Asrai sister in Asrai
* *Asrai'il*: Water Fae in Asrai
* *Asrai'a'lore Yl'orien'ir*: Welcome to the fold, Water Fae in Asrai
* *Vor'ish'in*: Gardnerian in Asrai
* *Asrai for'din*: Fae power

## Powers & Abilities

The Fae have power over the elements. Each type of Fae is able to control a different element. For example, the Lasair have control over fire and the Asrai have control over water. Glamouring is also solely a Fae power.

## Known Members

* Tierney Calix
* Yvan Guriel
* Viger Maul
* Sylla Vuul
* Vesper
* Asra'leen Filor'ian
* Fyordin Lir
* Torryn
* Ra'in
* My'raid
* Zephyr

## Gallery

Tierney Calix; by @Caffeinated DreamsYvan Guriel; by @Caffeinated Dreams
## Trivia

* The Fae are rendered powerless by iron.
* Fae as a species is referred to as Faekin.
Мемль

**Лолопутский** **мемль** - официальная денежная валюта Лолопутии. Мемль появился в 1745 году в мастерской Интересного Лела. Также мемль используется и в других странах, таких как Лолостан, Лолаина и т.д. Как правило, один Лолопутский мемль это 100 лелцентов. Существует 5 номиналов Лолопутского мемля, это 1 мемль, 100 мемлей, 1000 мемлей, 10 000 мемлей и 100 000 мемлей. Самые редкие номиналы, это 2 мемля, 7 мемля и 2 000 000 мемлей. Символ Лолопутского мемля - ᙢ
Galliana

**Galliana** is a Gardnerian prophetess and powerful Mage.

## Physical Description

Like all Gardnerians, Galliana has black hair, green eyes, and pale skin with an emerald shimmer.

## Biography

### Light Mage

Sage Gaffney recalls being taught that *The Book of the Ancients* states that magic is not for women, and only the prophetess Galliana and the Black Witch were granted the holy charge to wield magic and save Gardneria.

### The Iron Flower

Elloren Gardner tells Jarod Ulrich the story of Galliana while they are at the Yule Ball.

Galliana is responsible for saving Gardnerians long ago. The Mages were fleeing from demonic forces and were outnumbered. Galliana used tthee demon-slaying powers of Ironflowers and the White Wand to fight back. She's often called the Iron Flower for this reason. She rode into battle on a giant raven and struck down the demons with a river of Magefire. Then she led the Gardnerians across a desert to safety. A holiday commemorating her victory is celebrated every year just before Yule called Gallianalein. It's also known as the Ironflower Festival.

## Powers & Abilities

Galliana is a powerful Mage with affinity lines for fire.
Lachlan Grey

**Lachlan Grey** is the father of Lukas Grey and the High Commander of the Gardnerian military.

## Physical Description

Commander Grey is stern-faced and bears little resemblance to his son, except in the line of his jaw and his identical, fierce green eyes. He has a steely confidence. As High Commander, his uniform has a wide silver band around his upper arms and silver fabric edges the bottom third of his black cloak.

## Biography

### The Black Witch

Lachlan meets Lukas annd Elloren Gardner when they arrive at Verpax University. They are there to wandtest Elloren. Lachlan seems disappointed when Elloren "tests" as a Level One Mage and, according to Lukas, is quite angry when Elloren refuses to accept Lukas's fasting proposal.

### The Shadow Wand

The Vu Trin stage another attempt on Elloren's life at the Sealing breakfast. The Vu Trin blow up the Grey estate, killing Lukas's entire family. Elloren and Lukas had already begun their escape so they were not there.

## Powers & Abilities

While a powerful Mage, he is not more powerful than his son Lukas.
Paige Snowden

**Paige Snowden** is a Gardnerian and a student at Verpax University.

## Physical Description

Paige has curly black hair and round, rosy cheeks. She has the curling black lines of her wandfasting. She has pale skin with an emerald shimmer. Her hair is held back with jeweled barrettes.

## Personality

Paige is kind but is frequently intimidated by the people around her, especially Fallon Bane. She tries to make Elloren Gardner feel comfortable and welcomed. Paige is willing to be any type of person, as long as it means she is included with the group. Thus, she stops being friends with Elloren in order to fit in with Fallon and Echo Flood. She is nervous and mild. Paige is a generally pleasant.

## Biography

### Early History

Paige is the daughter of a Mage Council member who supports Marcus Vogel. She was wandfasted to Sylus Bane when she was thirteen.

### The Black Witch

Meets Elloren when she goes shopping with her upon Elloren's arrival in Valgard. Paige attends Vyvian Damon's ball. She then spends time with her during her stay in the city. They had lunch together with Vyvian twice and went shoe shopping. She is roommates with Fallon, Echo, Tierney Calix, and Diana Ulrich.
Fain Quillen

**Fain Quillen** is a friend of Vale Gardner and the brother of Lucretia Quillen.

## Physical Description

Fain is elegantly handsome and incredibly striking. He has aquiline and angular features, a long graceful neck, aristocratic cheekbones, bright green eyes, and curly black hair. His skin is pale with an emerald shimmer. Pale raised lash scars cover his entire back. Fain moves with a natural artistic grace and elegance. He appears cool and unflappable. His voice is velvety smooth.

As a soldier, Fain wears the uniform of a Gardnerian soldier. It is made of black silk with silver embroidery and is marked with a single silver sphere. His black cloak is edged with five silver lines.

## Personality

Fain is kind and affectionate. He likes exotic, fine, and expensive things.

## Biography

### Early History

Fain grew up poor in Graveshire. His father was a cruel illiterate pig farmer. When he was ten, he was caught embroidering with his sisters and his father whipped him so badly his entire back became permanently scarred. He was always being bullied and beaten by others for being different, until he turned fourteen and came into his power. Soon afterwards, he left and went to sea. He gained employment as Water and Wind Mage on merchant vessels and became very rich. After he had saved enough money, he returned home to get his three sisters and take them to Valgard, where he has raised them ever since. About a year later, he met Vale on his way to the Salishen Isles. They've been best friends ever since.

### Wandfasted

Fain is Vale's closest friend. They lead the rescue of Gardnerians from Doveshire, Keltania, including Tessla Harrow. Fain treats a Magedrunk Tessla using his water magic. Fain is the one who first suggests that Vale wandfast with Tessla. He is impressed by her ability to layer spells so naturally. He tells Vale that there's more to Tessla than "homespun wool and calloused hands." He also knows that if Vale wandfasts, it will help stop the rumors about the two of them being in a relationship.

### The Iron Flower

Fain is in the Eastern Realm, in Noi lands, with his adopted niece, Zephyr. He is keeping pit dragons as pets. He enjoys the Eastern Realm over the Western Realm.

## Powers & Abilities

Fain is a Level Five Mage with an affinity for water. He also has a pretty strong affinity for wind.

## Memorable Quotes

* "Rumors are like chaff, my love. Don't give them anything rough to hook on to, and they float away on the wind."

## Relationships

### Vale Gardner

Fain and Vale are best friends. Fain is one of the only people Vale feels he can speak freely with and he has a high respect for him.
Cael Eirllyn

## Caelidon Eirllyn

**Caelidon "Cael" Eirllyn** is an Alfsigr Elf and the older brother of Wynter Eirllyn. He is a member of the Alfsigr royal class.

## Physical Description

Cael has white skin and hair. His eyes are silver. He is armed with a bow and quiver and wears Elfin blades strapped to his belt. He speaks with a heavy accent.

## Personality

Cael is intimidating, formal, and serious. His face is often grave.

## Biography

### The Black Witch

Cael because furious when Rafe Gardner touches Wynter when Fallon Bane makes her fall. Later he and his second, Rhys Thorim, visit Elloren Gardner to tell her to leave Wynter alone.

### The Shadow Wand

Cael and Rhys have been renounced by the Alfsigr Royal Council when they return to Alfsigroth and have been taken into military custody. They will be sentenced to the sublands for helping Wynter to escape capture.

## Trivia

* Cael wins an archery competition during the Fall Tournaments.
Gardneria

Map of Gardneria

**Gardneria** is a country located in the Western Realm. People from this country are called Gardnerians. Gardnerians also refer to their country as the Blessed Magedom of Gardneria.

## Description

The capital city is Valgard. Gardneria is located in the central part of the Western Realm. It also includes the Pyrran Islands and the Fae Islands in the Voltic Sea. After the Realm War, Gardneria was ten times its original size.

## Government

The government of Gardneria is the Mage Council, which is led by the High Mage. The Mage Council meets at the Council Hall in Valgard. The military of Gardneria is the Mage Guard, which is led by the High Commander.

## Geography

Gardneria is a heavily forested country. There is lots of open space, known as the wilds, between towns and villages. The rural areas are wilderness and forests interspersed with farmland. Closer to Valgard, the land becomes increasingly dotted with small towns.

### The Fae Islands

The Fae Islands were made part of Gardneria's territory after the Realm War. They are a work colony for the Urisk. The Urisk on the island are paid barely enough to survive and are laboring in conditions akin to out-and-out slavery. They have no freedom of movement, no means of leaving the Islands for a better life as they are heavily guarded, and children are forced to labor as well. There are only two ways Urisk can leave the Islands. One is by paying a steep price to pirates who will smuggle them out but often deliver them to a worse master. The other way is by becoming indentured servants to the Gardnerians, which is also little more than glorified slavery with the threat of deportment always hanging over them. The Fae Islands have vast stretches of factories and farms. The southern part of the Voltic Sea, between the easternmost edge of the Fae Islands and mainland Gardneria, is well-known for its kraken-infested waters.

### The Pyrran Isles

The Pyrran Isles is a storm-lashed military prison and war camp where the Gardnerians sent their enemies at the end of the Realm War.

## Notable Locations

* Valgard
* Halfix
* Rothir
* Valgard Sanitorium
Clover Gaffney

**Clover Gaffney** is the younger sister of Sage Gaffney.

## Physical Description

Like all Gardnerians, she has black hair, green eyes, and pale skin with an emerald shimmer. Her hair is always wild and she is skinny. As a young child she carries her quilted blanket with her.

## Personality

Clover loves her sisters very much. She likes to tell stories. By the time she is eleven, Clover has developed a rebelliousness. She has always been a combative, easily stressed child.

## Biography

### Light Mage

Clover is six-years-old. Clover and her sister Retta do not want Sage to get fasted. Clover tells Sage about a strange and terrifying dream she had that "was a dream but not a dream." Clover tells Sage that in her dream was the Source Tree, and that it was looking for Sage and calling her name. She says that the Source Tree wants to give Sage a branch, which is the Sacred Wand of Power. The tree said that Sage didn't need to be afraid. It wants to give Sage the Wand so that the demons don't get it. Clover continues, saying that the demons are coming and they are coming for Sage. They want the Wand because they have the Shadow Wand already and now need to destroy the White Wand.

### The Iron Flower

Sage tells Elloren that her sisters are in Cyme with her. Clover loves it. She's made a large number of soldier friends and is in weapons training.
Raz'zor

**Raz'zor** is a moonskin wyvern.

## Physical Description

Raz'zor is slender and bone white. His eyes are slitted and ruby red. He has sharp, gleaming, ivory horns on top of his head. A metallic collar is around his neck marked witth glowing deep-green Gardnerian runes. This collar keeps him small in size despite the fact that he is full grown.

## Biography

### The Shadow Wand

Raz'zor is used as a pit dragon by the Gardnerians on the Fae Islands. Effrey rescues him and works to heal his injuries. When Effrey and Sparrow escape from the Islands, Effrey sneaks Raz'zor with him. At first Sparrow is furious that Effrey has brought something so valuable to the Gardnerians with them. But when Raz'zor saves them from a kraken by communicating with it, Sparrow changes her mind.

Raz'zor swears fealty to Elloren.

## Powers & Abilities

Raz'zor has invisible fire power. His visible power is bloodred Wyvernfire. He is immensely powerful and has deep veins of power. He is also an empath. He can communicate with kraken. As a wyvern, he can also fly.

## Trivia

* Gardnerians believe that because moonskin dragons are white and thus resemble the Easter Realm's dragon goddess. Therefore they are considered unlucky in the Western Realm and lucky in the Eastern Realm.
Wyvernguard

**The Wyvernguard** is Noilaan’s military academy where they train the Vu Trin soldiers.

## Description

The Wyvernguard is located on two colossal, vertical islands called the North Twin Island and the South Twin Island outside the glittering city of Voloi. The huge, ore-dark Vo River is splayed out all around the islands.

The North Twin Island is a towering pinnacle. Voloi is visible to the northeast and the Vo Mountain Range is to the west.

The South Twin Island is where all the Fae divisions are located. It is right by the Vo River's edge. Tiers upon tiers of obsidian buildings circle the island-mouintain. The narrow landmass rises straight through the clouds. Dragons dart in and out of the upper reaches as rune ships soar through the sky and stream over the water. The first-tier barracks have countless onyx and sapphire hallways. The floors are marked with Vu Trin martial scnes and dragon dieties. Sapphire runic light comes from glass-orb lamps. All the doors are marked with a circular plate bearing the design of the elements of the various Fae.

The apprentices wear sapphire uniforms. The majority of apprentices are young Noi women. But there are also Urisk, Ishkartans, Issani, Elfhollen, and dragon-shifters like Zhilon'ile Wyverns.

## Known Members

* Ung Li
* Viger Maul
* Sylla Vuul
* Asra'leen Filor'ian
* Vothendrile Xanthile
* Vesper
* Fyordin Lir
* Torryn
* Ra'in
* My'raid
* Tierney Calix
* Trystan Gardner
Konnor

**Konnor** is the young son of Andras Volya and Sorcha Xanthippe. He was adopted at birth by the Lupines.

## Physical Appearance

Konnor has deep brown skin and crimson eyes. His ears are pointed, and his hair is a mix of purple and blue. He is about two-years-old.

## Personality

Konnor is like most toddlers. He's a happy child and very energetic.

## Biography

### Early History

Konnor was brought by Sorcha to the Lupines. He was adopted by Ferrin Sandulf and Soraya Sandulf.

### The Iron Flower

Konnor is part of the Lupine group that attends Founder's Day at Verpax University to visit Diana and Jarod Ulrich. Ferrin and Soraya introduce Konnor to Andras and inform him that he is Konnor's father. Andras had no knowledge that he had a son and is overwhelmed with emotion. He immediately decided to join the Lupines so that he can raise his son.

## Powers & Abilities

Konnor is too young for any powers he might have to have developed.
Sylus Bane

**Sylus Bane** is Fallon Bane's older brother and a Level Five Mage.

## Physical Description

Sylus has the same features as Fallon, with stunning eyes and a smug grin. He is shorter than his brother, Damion Bane, and wears the gray uniform of a military-apprentice. He has black fasting marks on his hands and wrists. His skin is pale with an emerald shimmer. After finishing his apprenticeship, he wears the black uniform of a full soldier, with five silver bands on the sleeves.

## Personality

Sylus is a cruel, malicious, xenophobe like the rest of his family. He is confident that his magic and his family's high social standing will always protect him. He is vicious and arrogant.

## Biography

### The Black Witch

He is wandfasted to Paige Snowden. Sylus attends Vyvian Damon's ball with his sister and brother. He comes across Lukas Grey kissing Elloren Gardner and is excited to be able to tell Fallon what he saw. Sylus compliments Lukas on his "fast work" with Elloren and then invites Lukas to go out with him and a group of other Gardnerian boys.

### The Shadow Wand

Sylus is a commander leading Gardnerian troops into the Northern Forests. They are following orders to take the land from the Fae that have been hiding there since the end of the Realm War.

## Powers & Abilities

Sylus is a powerful Level Five Mage. His affinity is for water, which takes the form of ice.