Baden was raised in Trentsmund, pretending to be human. For nearly 90 years his mother taught him about his people who lived far up in a hidden city in the sky. The day she attempted to bring him to their ancestral jhareth home, they were attacked. In the struggle, Ingaelin's mother was killed and he fled for his life, eventually getting passage on a ship to Jessik across the Black Ocean.
Character: Jagano Rema
I don’t speak often, so you’d do well to listen when I tell you who I am. Of course, I’ve already told you, though your kind are often deaf to all but words. My soul is written in the veins across my skin. It pulses through the courseways of my body when I run the wilds; pounds in my chest, burns through lung and limb…
Character: Jannick Gain
I remember a time when I was human. When I ran the boardwalks of Brindle Beach with the other children. There was a girl. A sister, perhaps. Someone who used to race beside me along the packed sand at the water’s edge. Another empty shape left in the fragments of my mind. Outlines without forms or faces.
Character: Thessia Onforoth
I’ve been looking for my father. He was a stranger. A colonist, they tell me, but I can’t be even sure of that. A warrior, tall and quiet. Always moving, searching. They say my father was a tortured man, lucky only in battle. Unlucky in love. Unlucky in birthright. Unlucky in having had a daughter like me.