The Shadowcatcher Coven was one of four under the Blue Moon Coventry. Older than the World Tree, this Coven had carved its way through society by hunting and exorcising the ghouls and shades that started to take over Eonid with no soul system in place. When an elf died, their soul had nowhere to go, thus they wandered. Some wandered aimlessly, others became angry and malevolent, and it was those ghouls and shades that the Shadowcatchers had to cull, lest they take over the land of the living completely.
Most Elves on Eonid were born with an innate ability to commune with nature and one of those aspects of nature had been the light of the noon day sun. This type of elemental shift on Eonid was rare, which is why the Shadowcatcher Coven was considered royalty for that alone. The Blue Moon Coventry, and the other covens it houses, were also known for heightened affinities with other elements that still embodied nature. For instance, the Moonshine Coven specialized in Moon Water and Blessed Salts. The Crescent Coven was known for working with the tools needed for rituals and practices.
All of these things were well sought after by other Elves who could only commune with nature in order to farm or set up animal husbandry.
However, when the Starlings came and up ended their whole world, everyone seemed to move right along with them. Everyone except the Shadowcatchers. Steeped in family history and traditions, the Shadowcatchers remained in their old ways, even snubbing the Starling society that had washed over Eonid.
There was, as there always seems to be, a flaw in this mindset. While they insisted on their traditions and methods, the Starling influence had shifted much more than society as a structure, but also the inhabitants on Eonid as well.
Starfallen Elves were being born to the Primordial Elves of Eonid. Sanctioned by a falling star at birth, these elves would be born with stars in their hair, their eyes, and for some, their souls. These Starfallen would be primed and perfect for recruitment as a Starling, but that would require their Starcharts being available to the N-Class Starlings, the Nightgazers.
A few babies were born before it was made known, but once the phenomenon had reached the Pillars (Starlings who had been put into place to uphold the new magic and soul system), they then created a new order that had Nightgazer Starlings dispatched to new births to look for a falling star. If they observed one, then the child would be a Starfallen and the Nightgazer would mark down the Constellation the star fell in, as well as the element, and then determine the birthstone. In most cases the Nightgazer could even determine the Pleiades sister blessing for that child.
This new system both in elven births and magic, meant that more elements were introduced to society. With new constellations, new ways of living, The Pillars, the Pleiades influences, and Eonid’s wild and chaotic magic made even more so with the Starshards that fell when Aurora crashed through the moon called Minastra, the elements would be reorganized and influenced by the new Starling way of life. Starfallen Elves would automatically find themselves in line with this, so when Raylor Shadowcatcher received his first child, he was disgusted and ashamed by her star-strewn hair. He would be further infuriated when she developed an affinity for the Water element, and not the Light. It is here that our story begins in earnest with the journey of that daughter, Mythral Shadowcatcher.
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