Post by Aerin Calder on May 30, 2011 20:39:38 GMT -5
Dusma is the place beyond the place where the mist settles in the forest, beyond the moores, and beyond the mountains. Few dare to cross into the woods and those who do never come back. Strange and evil things live in the woods, creatures with the power to drive a man mad. The people that live in Dusma are known to the humans as "Fare Folk". The "Fare Folk" call themselves the Sidhe. They are related to the mermaids and are the ancestors of the Fae, Elves, Angels, and Demons. The Sidhe can manipulate time, memory, and sense the deepest yearnings of a man's heart. They use these yearnings to bend them to their will. While they are in Dusma their powers are strongest but in the human realm they are diminished. To humans they will appear beautiful and charismatic but once they have tricked their prey they turn into their true forms. Their features melt away.
Unlike the humans who have no real organized government outside of the clan or tribe system Sidhe serve a single being, the queen. The queen once ruled everything, including Dúil, but that ended when Sidhe who were sympathetic and fell in love with the humans from across the sea split away from Dusma. When this happened a prophecy was made that said that humans would one day kill the queen. For years the Sidhe scoffed at the prediction and left the humans alone, unless they came into their woods. But then something happened. Something, very, very strange. A star fell from the sky, and landed in their world. A star from Dúil. Many feared that this meant that the humans would attack, so they decided to invade and take back what was rightfully theirs. But even among the Sidhe there is conflict. Some believe that Dúil should be left alone, and some still have decided to aid the humans in the war to come.
So it begins...