Ellyllon

**Ellyllon** are a species of fae. The only named ellyllon in the canon are Princess Braith and Prince Vane, who are both fie ellyllon, an Unseelie subgroup. A number of ellyllon reside in Esgrettio. They are aelves.

## Abilities

Elves can create - or at least possess - a small amount of elfshot, which is made using 'elf magic'. 'Long ago, the elves had warred so brutally with each other that the famous elven militaries – known for their use of elfshot – dwindled.' 'All the legends said that if a person was shot with elfshot, the tip of the arrow would break away immediately, falling even as the person who was shot fell – paralysed. No cure for the paralysis except to find the exact same arrow tip in a mess of dirt and battlefield and touch it to the place where the person was shot.' It's powerful enough to even affect a fae with King status.

## Characteristics (culture, habits)

'The fie ellyllon had been well-favoured by many Unseelie Courts in the past, only to be subtly snubbed by the Raven Prince', partly because the fie ellyllon were rumored to be informants. Prior to the snub, they were close with their Seelie ellyllon cousins, but the Raven Prince's distrust seemingly caused them to break off with their cousins, and the fie ellyllon became targets of the Unseelie military.

It's unclear how much ellyllon differ from their Unseelie cousins, but the fie ellyllon are known for being fast fighters who are monetarily rich.

Gwyn ap Nudd noted that some ellyllon reside in Esgrettio, alongside common fae, sidhe, laecquetti, and alven ottermanner. Since Esgrettians vacated the area after Augus Each Uisge's Blight destroyed the area, but returned after he healed it, it's likely this happened with the local ellyllon, as well.

## Folklore/Mythology

*'Tylwyth Teg* (Middle Welsh for "Fair Family"; Welsh pronunciation: [ˈtəlʊi̯θ teːg]) is the most usual term in Wales for the mythological creatures corresponding to the fairy folk of English and Continental folklore and the Irish *Aos Sí*. Other names for them include *Bendith y Mamau* ("Blessing of the Mothers"), *Gwyllion* and ***Ellyllon***. . . . The term *tylwyth teg* is first attested in a poem attributed to the 14th-century Dafydd ap Gwilym, in which the principal character gets perilously but comically lost while going to visit his girlfriend . . . In later sources the *tylwyth teg* are described as fair-haired and covet golden-haired human children whom they kidnap, leaving changelings (or *crimbilion*, sing. *crimbil*) in their place. They dance and make fairy rings and they live underground or under the water. They bestow riches on those they favour but these gifts vanish if they are spoken of, and fairy maidens may become the wives of human men. These fairy wives are however still bound by traditional taboos. They must be careful to avoid touching iron or they will vanish back to their realm never to be seen by their husbands again. . . . According to the folklorist Wirt Sikes the *Tylwyth Teg* may be divided into five general types: the *Ellyllon* (elves), the *Coblynau* (fairies of the mines), the *Bwbachod* (household fairies similar to brownies), the *Gwragedd Annwn* (female fairies of the lakes and streams) and the *Gwyllion* (mountain fairies more akin to hags). The *ellyllon* (singular *ellyll*) inhabit groves and valleys and are similar to English elves. Their food consists of toadstools and fairy butter (a type of fungus) and they wear digitalis bell flowers as gloves. They are ruled by Queen Mab and bring prosperity to those they favour.'

'The Ellyllon are the pigmy elves who haunt the groves and valleys, and correspond pretty closely with the English elves. The English name was probably derived from the Welsh *el*, a spirit, *elf*, an element; there is a whole brood of words of this class in the Welsh language, expressing every variety of flowing, gliding, spirituality, devilry, angelhood, and goblinism. Ellyllon (the plural of ellyll), is also doubtless allied with the Hebrew Elilim, having with it an identity both of origin and meaning. [Pughe's 'Welsh Dictionary.' (Denbigh, 1866)].

. . . The hollows, or little dingles, are still the places where the peasant, belated on his homeward way from fair or market, looks for the ellyllon, but fails to find them. Their food is specified in Welsh folk-lore as fairy butter and fairy victuals, ymenyn tylwyth teg and bwyd ellyllon; the latter the toadstool, or poisonous mushroom, and the former a butter-resembling substance found at great depths in the crevices of limestone rocks, in sinking for lead ore. Their gloves, menyg ellyllon, are the bells of the digitalis, or fox-glove, the leaves of which are well known to be a strong sedative. Their queen--for though there is no fairy-queen in the large sense that Gwyn ap Nudd is the fairy-king, there is a queen of the elves--is none other than the Shakespearean fairy spoken of by Mercutio, who comes

*In shape no bigger than an agate-stone*

*On the forefinger of an alderman*

['Romeo and Juliet,' Act II,. Sc. 4]'.

## Image Gallery

Fanart of Prince Vane by tetsujou https://tetsujou.tumblr.com/post/125099986949/i-drew-this-before-the-latest-chapter-and-now-im
## References

1. ↑ not\_poignant. “The Court of Five Thrones.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 4 July 2014. https://archiveofourown.org/works/1749290/chapters/4088631. Chapter 3: Disintegration.
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