Races

Asyn-Shei - by T.A. Saunders ©2011 v1.0

Racial Articles An Unexpected Union: The Asyn-Shei

The first Asyn-Shei were born in the quiet province of An`Tiel, in the Kingdom of Farwind. The baron of that province had a personal army that had both Quar`Vess and Moon Elvish soldiers. The families of those soldiers lived in there of course, so the inter-mingling of the two races was inevitable. The baron of An`Tiel had been one of the original Shar`Vaire to split from the D`Mirian Empire, when the edict that all families with magi within them had to submit themselves to a demonic coupling was passed. These Shar`Vaire, who would later rename themselves the Quar`Vess, were a free-thinking and tolerant lot; as such, these first Asyn-Shei children were looked on as a blessing and loved like any other child might, rather than as a blight of racial impurity, as they would have if they had stayed in the Empire.

It was a tense time during the War of Eternals; while the still new Kingdom of Farwind remained neutral in the conflict, there were many families In An`Tiel with mixed emotions about the war. Many families with Asyn-Shei children joined volunteer legions that met up with and assisted the Armies of the Kingdom of Shei (which is now known as the Kingdom of Vyss) against the Shar`Vaire Empire. There were enough Asyn-Shei of age to fight that the Shar`Vaire noticed them and made a point to capture them whenever possible for ‘study' to determine where they came from. It was then they realized their wayward cousins in Farwind had produced these abominations and, had it not been for the fact they were so heavily engaged with the Moon Elves, they may have well opened a second offensive against the Kingdom of Farwind.

When the War of Eternals concluded with the Cataclysm of D`Mir, An`Tiel became the home of many Moon Elves who sought refuge there. Most of these had been prisoners of war, locked away in D`Mir until the civil war broke out, mere days after the Kingdom of Shei had been defeated. More Moon Elves living amongst Quar`Vess meant more Asyn-Shei would be eventually introduced into the population; enough that they became nearly 5% of the overall population of the once-province that was quickly becoming a small, but affluent city.