A bizarre series of events landed me (literally!) in the world of Antares, where I began living my second life to the fullest.
But what's an elf to do
when someone from her home world unexpectedly shows up?
Part 1 - The First Life
On Harmony, or Elfsong:
Elven magic is harmonic. Instead of magic words, they have magic melodies, produced at levels humans can't hear. It can be used for almost everything: making plants grow, controlling the weather, comforting friends, even breaking things. But it cannot be done alone, it has to be sung together, like a choir. It creates and forms the aura that surrounds and protects each Court, or colony. It is the literal lifebeat of the elven community - an elf isolated is an elf doomed to madness or death. Most do not survive being silenced.
Places in the past:
Imagine the aftermath of the collision of two planets, the pieces suspended in space, connected to each other by tenuous threads of magic that you can conveniently travel through. These pieces are inhabited by the various peoples, both magical and non, created by the daughters of the god Balath.
Lyramir is one of those worlds, tended to by Lyra, inhabited by the elves and other fae creatures she created.
Panati is another such world, tended to by Belath, inhabited by the humans he created. This one has the most connections, or entrances, to all of the other worlds. There are dozens of these little interconnected worlds, so those who inhabit them think traveling to other worlds is perfectly normal. However, no one from here has ever done it through the Void.
Until recently.
Part 10 - Voices from the Void
Notes on the Elves of Lyramir:
On Harmony, or Elfsong:
Elven magic is harmonic. Instead of magic words, they have magic melodies, produced at levels humans can't hear. It can be used for almost everything: making plants grow, controlling the weather, comforting friends, even breaking things. But it cannot be done alone, it has to be sung together, like a choir. It creates and forms the aura that surrounds and protects each Court, or colony. It is the literal lifebeat of the elven community - an elf isolated is an elf doomed to madness or death. Most do not survive being silenced.
Places in the past:
Imagine the aftermath of the collision of two planets, the pieces suspended in space, connected to each other by tenuous threads of magic that you can conveniently travel through. These pieces are inhabited by the various peoples, both magical and non, created by the daughters of the god Balath.
Lyramir is one of those worlds, tended to by Lyra, inhabited by the elves and other fae creatures she created.
Panati is another such world, tended to by Belath, inhabited by the humans he created. This one has the most connections, or entrances, to all of the other worlds. There are dozens of these little interconnected worlds, so those who inhabit them think traveling to other worlds is perfectly normal. However, no one from here has ever done it through the Void.
Until recently.
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