✦ A Guide to the Tribes of Skuyae ✦ -Greater Powers- ~AIR SPIRITS~ Description: These people often have pale skin and hair the color of everything found in the sky. All of them have wings, though only some have feather-like wings. Their wings often look like that of an insect or, when they have feathers, a bird. However, birth defects (such as pointed ears) are becoming quite common in this tribe, as most commoners (and some nobles) have elf or Fae blood in their ancestry. Abilities: Their angelic voices can put people into a sort of trance and they can control the person they’ve placed into the trance. If they have feathers, they can control each feather on their wings. If not, they are capable of extreme speeds in flight. They can manipulate clouds and control the wind. Queen: Queen Antinea ~SEA CREATURES~ Description: The people of water are not often social and rarely speak to anyone other than family. They have gills, fishtails, fins, scales, and flowy hair, though only mermaids and sirens have this trait. They consist of mermaids, mermen, sirens, and sometimes, though very rare, a person with the looks of Forgotten, with features of a fish, which are called sea monsters. Abilities: Their abilities include controlling water and sea plants, forming bubbles that can only be popped by their creator, and enhanced swimming. Sirens can sing their enemies to fall in love with them or lead them to their doom if pleased, as well as shapeshift into their victims; desire (a person, for example, that they love). This is something that must be learned through the years. When a Sea Creature exits the water, it gains the ability to walk amongst the other people on land–some even can transform into human-like creatures. Queen: Queen Cordelia ~ELVES~ Description: These people tend to be shorter than the average Forgotten, around 5 inches shorter. They’re not very social, tending to live alone. Elves normally have pointed ears and control over elemental magic. Abilities: Their abilities range from what they were created from. For example, if they were created from stone, they would be able to control the earth. Elves can be born from elven parents—however, being born from an inanimate object, like a rock, is the most common way of being born as an elf, due to the laws made by the queen of the elves. Queen: Queen Lyca -Neutral Powers- ~FAIRIES AND FAE~ Description: The fairies tend to be small, yet still larger than pixies. Fairies can enchant others and have healing magic. Fae have Forgotten blood, yet aren’t considered Unknown, and are around the same size as the other people. These creatures have wings of an insect or a bird and are considered to be monsters, but Air Spirits, Elves, and Sea Creatures are sometimes allowed to mix with the Fae. Abilities: These creatures can perform magic such as healing, shapeshifting, invisibility, flight, and spellcasting. The fae carry wooden staffs with a certain gemstone attached to them that is connected to the element of their abilities to hone their magic, though some with multiple powers do not carry staffs or gemstones and/or just put their gemstone in a bracelet or necklace. Queen: Queen Aine [continued in notes and credits ↓]
-Lesser Powers- ~MONSTERS~ Description: These creatures consist of dragons, unicorns, wyverns, Pegasi, phoenixes, firebirds, fairies, Fae, pixies, kitsune, griffins, centaurs, hippogriffs, and changelings They have been banished by the Air Spirits, Elves, and Sea Creatures, only able to be around one another without being shadowed. Because of this, many monsters are allowed by their queens to intermix with other species (see Unknown), for many do not care for their "pure" blood. Abilities: As they are not one species, Monsters do not have a certain ability. Queen: There are several queens of their kind as they are not one species. ~UNKNOWN~ Description: These creatures are similar to Monsters except they are hybrids of the people. For example, the offspring of a fairy and a Sea Creature. There isn’t a specific name for each species as there are hundreds of possible combinations. However, when any of the main tribes (Air Spirits, Elves, Sea Creatures) have any children with Fae, fairies, Monsters, Forgotten, or even other Unknown, they can face cruel punishments, stretching from banishment to execution. Abilities: Their abilities vary; they usually have a combination of the parents' abilities. Queen: They live in many villages and are not ruled by anyone. ~FORGOTTEN~ Description: (the first peoples of Skuyae) The Forgotten, also known as humans, live in villages in the land and have a very scarce population, known as myths to some. They look similar to Sea Creatures in their landform. The Forgotten were once very powerful, having large kingdoms and being great conquerors. But the magic folk–Air Spirits, Elves, Sea Creatures, Fae, fairies, and even Monsters alike–despised the warlike nature of the humans and banished them to the corners of the continent. Since then, while the populations are small, battles against the magic folk have raged throughout the continent of Skuyae. Abilities: They have no known abilities though they always carry a pouch with them that contains their necessities. Some have dangerous weapons that can take out the most powerful of Air Spirits, Fae, and Sea Creatures, as well as many other creatures. The thing these creatures do poses is some intelligence, and use that to make their dangerous weapons. Queen: Their queen is not known (if they even have one).i
