New Gods: Ashkameni Fala
Population Migration / Travel
The Savasque described them with words saying, "....... As though the highest tower sung o' white clouds was beneath their grace! Their flagged eyes brimful o' unyielding, a fala (pride) seething thereunder."
Ancestors: The People of Pride
The Yfala
The Ashkameni Fala, or the Yfala as we know them today, were once a race of forest faeries. Proud peoples who hailed from the Arbellyc woodlands of Tser'ól. In tales of yore, the Yfala were one of many clans stripped of their hallowed wings, exiled. Many, forever banished or even discarding the Courts of Anthíre Siophè. We call this age the White Dawn.
However, unlike their cousins, the Yfala were castaway. From Tasri Kronika Dashkrun, "Achébeiron Black Chronicle."
It said of them, the Yfala, were cast out for their egregious sin of drinking blood. And thus, banished were the great sinners. They, forced to wander the black of Cea Mharru for numerous centuries, afore settling in the region that would come to be known as Umregakta al Ashkamenilr, Chavia.
Fated Meeting
I
n Chavic literature, ancient texts depict beings of a most ephemeral and divine beauty. If, the Auollymir peoples exuded a grace that tasted of divinity. Yet stirred a muted passion for the ethereal in the hearts of Marrèl. These peoples were a species that instead exuded a pride so pure in its godhood it forced the minds of Marrèl to bow at their mere presence. And yet, it tasted of a charm so achingly carnal in its being. It wrung out conflicting feelings of tempestuous lust and delicate chastity.
When the Chavs, known then as the
Savasque, met these peoples. Though haggard by plight and emaciated by exile. The Savasque described them with words saying,
"(They) eyed not the black earth that stained their dresses and smeared their pleated brows but held up their heads. As though the highest tower sung o' white clouds was beneath their grace. Their flagged eyes brimful o' unyielding, a fala (pride) seething thereunder."
The Savasque called them
Ashkameni Fala. In the Old Chavic tongue, it meant "
People of Pride, Glory." Though today, we know them by another name.
The Yfala. The hallowed ancestors of the Ynellian.
In Old Chavic literature, specifically of the
Antuilea Umregakta al Ashkamenilr (Second Kingdom of Men), the Yfala were described as
"youthful ecioanis (maidens) of short stature and delicate frame, bearing skin of the palest lavandal (lavender). Large oradechi ca riulpea (fox-like ears) and fluffy tails. Long pointed nails black as tar. And shimmering eyes of the cloudless emerald engulfed by their pitch-black sclera."
Though, outside the borders of
An Kyto Dergonia, we oft see Marrèl poets and literature depict the Yfala as more brutish-looking creatures. These Fae were less fallen gods brought down to the earth. But more so,
"large hulking beasts. With wicked, crimson eyes boasting of a thirst so unwavering. It ravaged the spirit, leaving the body naught but a withering husk of bone and skin. Their hide was as decayed leather, dark and swarthy, worn by age and unending malice. Bore long dagger-like fangs that cut into flesh like mud as their wicked talons glisten with wet rotten blood."
To them, not of Savasque, the Yfala were not people. Nor were they some hallowed gods. They were monsters, ill-fated nightmares of a forbidden world. Both depictions tell of a strange age. A time when Marrèl knew not of their ancient masters. The Fae.
