Lore
Wispwillow Grove is not a place where love is known to blossom. It is not welcoming, gentle, or kind, but it has an aura of mystery and wonder to it that the right kind of spirit is drawn to. One such spirit of nature took on the form of a coatl dragon - she was young and beautiful, beguiling and enchanting. She sang and danced amidst the glowing mushrooms and crawling brambles. She wore a crown with branches of red coral. She had sisters, other nature nymphs, spirits of trees and rivers, and mountains. But one by one, her sisters swore themselves to Artemis; forever virgins. The new coatl would make no such pledge - she wanted to find love, to know it.
Another spirit was bewitched by her, a water spirit, a nix who took the form of a dragon as well, a bogsneak came into being because of his love for the Nymph. He called her to the water but she would not come to him. He sang to her in an attempt to woo her, played her otherworldly music, he made her promises no mortal dragon could ever keep. He wanted her for his own. In time, she warmed to his advances, and in time she accepted his proposal. They were happy together.
The pair were wed under the full moon's light, deep in the Tangled Wood, and in that moment, the two spirits were joined for eternity, one always having a sliver of the other. The pair welcomed a single egg, a little version of themselves: a water spirit - a naiad - embued with the magic of the deepest shadows power.
Eventually, however, the young female coatl's amorous freedom got the better of her, and she roamed the woods more and more, looking for something outside herself that called to her. In time, the bogsneak male grew despondent without the water from which he was born. Zhagaus was called back to the river and Nymph followed her desires, the two halves of one spirit-heart were separated; but still their essences are intertwined.
And so it came to pass that with each new clutch born from the nymph or the nix, the shards of each other spirit connected them still. A certain magic coursed through the veins of the progeny, who were half-dragon/half-spirit themselves. The progeny were tied to one another through a mystical bond. They came to be known as the Nereids, named after a family of water nymphs who could not be tamed.
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Zhagaus cooldown until june 9 |
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Nymph cooldown until june 11 |
Their only daughter together, Haliae, held a certain magic within her. She seemed tied to the riverbank deep in the tangled wood where she hatched. Soon however, the mystics of the Foxfire Fortune clan came to realize the truth: As a Naiad, Haliae was not necessarily considered to be immortal, for she would live and die alongside her water source. The mystics foretold that this affliction would pass on to her children.
So if a spring dried up, the associated Naiad was thought to die with it.
Naiads are also considered protectors of young maidens; additionally their waters are also often thought to be able to heal or aide in prophecy.
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Haliae cooldown until June 20 |