Naestra and Arahan, the Sisters of Twilight, are among the most enigmatic servants of Athel Loren: twin elf-maidens who are, in truth, two halves of a single soul, sundered and bound to the eternal turning of day into night. Naestra is the gentler, a spirit of the coming dawn who fights with sorrow and reluctance; Arahan is her opposite, a fierce huntress of the failing dusk who kills without hesitation or regret. Where one is mercy, the other is wrath, and together they are complete. The sisters serve as the personal agents of Ariel, the Mage Queen, dispatched to hunt down the forest's greatest enemies, and they ride to war upon Ceithin-Har, an ancient and mighty forest dragon that has slumbered in Athel Loren since the dawn of days. Loosing arrows of dawn-light and dusk-shadow from the back of their terrible mount, they descend upon their quarry like the changing of the sky itself. Beautiful, sorrowful, and utterly deadly, the Sisters of Twilight embody the balance the Wood Elves hold sacred: that light and dark, mercy and murder, are but two faces of the same eternal wheel.
More Wood Elf Realms
ArielThe Mage QueenThe Mage Queen of Athel Loren: an elf maiden remade as the vessel of the goddess Isha, whose grace sustains the living forest and whose grief can darken it for a season.
DrychaThe Mad SpiritA vengeful branchwraith who hates all warm-blooded creatures, elves included, and dreams of a day when the forest devours every last intruder from the world.
DurthuEldest of AncientsOne of the most ancient Treemen in the world, a towering elder spirit whose slow-burning wrath at the wrongs done to the forest has hardened into unforgiving hatred.
OrionThe King in the WoodsThe King in the Woods: the hunter-god Kurnous made flesh, reborn from the Oak of Ages with every spring to lead the Wild Hunt, and dead again with every midwinter.
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