The Nymphs and Kitts

This page details the history of the races of Tarenia and Jenis Atoll. Nymphs, also known as Sea Elves or Eastern Yrethal and Kitts, gray-blue half-elves descended from Quesonian Humans and Sea Elves.

Long ago,
before the beginning of Angrarian time, a large ship of Ehladerenian settlers
shoved off on a voyage to new and fertile lands, a place which is now the land
of the nymphs. When the settlers beached on Tarenia, they were already vaguely
aware of Saerodin from the Valsari's maps, but did not know where on the great
landmass they were. The land was beautiful, tall dark trees with shimmering
teal leaves filtered off the harsh sun making the warm and misty land sheltered
and shady even on the hottest of days. The land was filled with strange fungi
and giant mushrooms which glow faintly with a blue more crisp than the sky. The
fungus, though huge and toxic raw, were edible after boiling and served well to
prevent the settlers starvation as they built their new city of Mist Haven. As
the years passed by, the elves began to change, forgetting their Ehladerenian
roots and developing their own culture. Their skin color changed as well from a
greenish-yellow to a deep pale blue from the heavy pigmentation in their diets. Their
bodies adapted to the environment that their ancestors had settled and
developed webbed fingers and toes and the ability to hold their breath for up
to 10 minutes at a time so as to maneuver and hunt in the many crystal lakes
and ocean areas around their home. In those days, males were growing scarce in
the nymph society due to the unfortunate side effects of their diet which
caused feminization of the nymph fetuses. The few men that they did have were
born with fertility issues, generally causing serious birth defects to nymph
children. Because of this, the males in the society were treated as worthless
and defective, loosing many rights in the matriarchal society. The women, still
wanting to mother children to carry on their names and such were forced to mate
with men from outside societies like Quesan and J'Zan. As the Quezonian men had
not settled far enough south at the time for fear of the Skiinar so they had no
knowledge of the nymphs beyond legend, the last remaining option for mating
were the men of J'Zan, known as the Skiinar, cold blooded (almost reptilian)
people with an unsavory culture. This worked for a time, but eventually the
women grew fed up with the pale and uncaring men they were forced to mate with, as the
Skiinar had little to no sexual drive. The Quezanian nomads who eventually made
their way south were taken aback by the nymphs' stunning beauty, and were
enticed into the heart of Zenpool, a shimmering, misty forest of pools and
small lakes which was (at the time) the capitol of Tarenia. Once in the midst
of the capitol, they were treated to a feast and decided that this was where
they would stay, and so they made the Nymphs their brides. But all was not as
it seemed, for in Nymph culture, if a male is born to a Nymph mother, it is
considered a mark of evil and both the mother and son would be executed (this practice
was influenced by the Skiinar culture due to their close relations over the
years). On the day of the first birth of the first nomadic human's child, the
city rejoiced as another beautiful baby girl was born into nymph society. Nymph
birth patterns sync like menstruation, so that week 13 more babies were born, 4
of which were males, and the 3 mothers who produced them were sentenced to
death along with their sons. The humans caught wind of this and swiftly
slaughtered the enforcing Nymphs of the area and escaped with their sympathetic
wives on boats to freedom. The group of 30 found themselves on the Atoll now
known as Jenis and discovered that it was flourishing with food and
uninhabited, save for wild boar and birds. The 14 children (half nymph and half
human) grew up to be the Kitts, a race of humans with blue-grey skin. Separate
from the other cultures, the Kitts tribes grew and prospered long into Angrarian
year 112 when their now solidified society was unfortunately discovered by Gromdarrian scout ships
who were sent off course by a storm.