Vylae Taeri

So Vylae Taeri was born in Aryth on the 2nd, (I don’t know the year because I don’t know when they started counting). Anyway, he was born to Arel and Sylvas. The flight from the Giants of Xen’drik was only a few centuries ago and tensions between the elves were beginning to rise and well before the patron ritual as we know it was in place (speaking of which I think it would be pretty dope to write that so I’ll do that after). Aeren (prophet) had recently passed after bringing the people to Aerenal. Vylae would be within the line of Valaes Tairn and already their more warlike nature of the Tairnadal was beginning to really show when being compared to the Aereni. Anyway, now that we have the background knowledge situated, sorry this is kind of messy. So Vylae is born and tensions are high. As a personal choice his parents send him off to study with a few other elves who have decided to form a monk order, Vylae sees this as a way to escape the rising tension between the elves.

So I made a few mistakes while I was looking for stuff for Aerenal in the beginning. So what I thought was how things operated was that wood elves and high elves were two different societies with the wood elves making up the three lines and being the nomadic group while the high elves were the ones that settled down and created the cities, the ones that served the high court. I am so sorry that I found this so late and if it causes any problems.

I don’t feel like I did Vylae justice and it’s becoming more important so we are going into more detail. Like any group that has recently formed and starting to create a bit of order, there were conflicts between the wood elves and high elves having different views with things like nomadic versus permanent and things of the sort. Sensing the tension his parents Arel and Sylvas, had him join four other elves named Elnan, Daera, Baerec, Vendi, as they went off to start the Soaring Hand when he was only about 70, so still young by elf standards but by no means a child. They thought the use of your hands as your weapon of choice was the best option as theoretically you could have the most control on your weapon as it was actually a part of your body. To focus on their perfecting of this technique they decided to try and find a more secluded area. Of course, it wasn’t easy, it was a long trip to where the monastery stands today and the walk was certainly dangerous as this was a whole new continent still. Through this travel, though, they started to perfect their technique. Eventually, Baerec, who had taken a bit of a leadership role among them all, decided that the river where the monastery stands today would be a great place to set up. It started pretty small just being a few tents around a campfire. The climate of Aerenal meant setting up a house to protect from the winters wasn’t exactly an issue but they wanted to make sure that their monastery would last, I mean they spent all this time setting it up after all. So Vendi and Vylae were sent off, being the youngest of the group, to the nearest new settlement they had heard of, which was much farther away than it is today since things were only getting started. It was quite the walk. Eventually, though they got there and saw the start of this new town. They came to spread the word of their monastery and offering their help. They got lucky enough to get their first job helping hunt down some food in exchange for the start of some help with building the actual building that exists today. It took them about two weeks to finish the work but eventually, Vendi and Vylae finished and took the mason back to Baerec to start work. Baerec set up the relationship with the town, consistently offering help in exchange for any basic supplies they may need. In general, they all had some basic jobs, Vendi and Vylae did the physically demanding jobs, Daera tended to a small farm that they set up at the monastery, Elnan and Baerec kept up relationships with the town. There were regular jobs that needed to be done in town which is how Vylae met Elith!

A quick detour to that, so Vylae was sent to help a tailor clear out a rat problem (runs a deep hate for rats here) in Aramore and man was it a bitch to do so but hey, he got it done. He met with Elith at the end of his job and man did he kind of fall hard. Vylae took every chance he could after he took the robes back to visit Elith again. He was a bit of a show-off when it came to Elith, but eventually, they got married and it was adorable.

Anyway back to the important stuff. Vylae’s first hundred years at the monastery were definitely just setting this monastery up. It got to a very solid stone building and it was really nice! But once that was done there wasn’t much else to do, but the tensions between the Aereni and the Tairnadal were growing. And growing quickly, the Aereni of the town nearby was growing more resentful of the wood elf monastery. Baerec obviously wanted to fix this, so he sent Vylae out, having a good relationship with the Aereni already, to try and help keep the peace. Elith and he were already married, so he asked her to join him to assist with peacekeeping. So they both set out to help the conflicting Aereni and Tairnadal near him. With Elith’s assistance, he went to speak with the head of the small little town as just a starting point. He explained that they had no intentions to interfere with anything the Aereni in the town were doing. And to hear the general vibes of what the issues they had with the Tairnadal. After some compromise such as taking on some Aereni monks to help ensure that the Tairnadal would not use force to overrun anything. This would be the start of the whole, ‘as long as you actually care about the whole monk business, we don’t care what race you are,’ thing.