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Depict your elnin finding evidence of a daeva crossing through an area. In some cases, this can be a painfully-splintered body of an elnin that has been severely corrupted by the encounter, where the elnin itself appears to be completely still and made of anima with splintering jutting out from the body. It has been mandated these corrupted elnin be reported to a niche group of scholars in Strynhalde that believe this to maybe be reversible with treatment. (These may or may not be the same group of scholars known for tinkering with living anima *cough*) If the corrupted elnin begin to crack and their condition begins to degrade, at that point a higher-ranking elnin may need to monitor these corrupted elnin.

At times, corrupted elnin are not found, but there are other remnants implying a daeva may have been in an area recently, like trails of dark violet anima splinters erratically jutting out of the ground. These splintered trails are often joined by scattered floating bits of dark violet anima ringed by glowing halos (black or white) that hang ominously around and over the trail. While the daeva has passed in these scenarios, such evidence can imply they might not be far.

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Elnin will not pursue or see an actual daeva in this act, so do not depict any actual encounters in your act or we will request edits. This is because an elnin would almost certainly meet the same fate as fully splintered elnins found if a daeva were actually encountered. With that in mind the focus of this act is not on encountering daeva, but instead finding evidence they are possibly close while actively avoiding an encounter.

The elnin that's trapped in this heavily corrupted state should not be any specific identifiable elnin on the masterlist.

An example of daeva tracks can be viewed here.

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Every so often an elnin will find themselves in a bit of a damp spot having strayed too close to some water. If they are so close to such a pool or sea though, it's worthwhile to take in the sight of the various aquatic life there. Depict your elnin observing an aquatic critter's tail and features. Not all aquatic tails have scales and the creatures observed should not be ones that can navigate land.

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While elnin have paws firmly on the ground, occasionally visitors from great heights descend. These feathered friends sport all kinds of plumed tails and decorative feathers. Do their feathered tails have a function as well? Elnin may have to watch and move carefully while observing just to avoid any feathered critters in Eyre from leaving with great haste. Depict your elnin observing a feathered critter in Eyre with an interesting tail of plumage and other feathered features.

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Raw gemstones are most often found in Zevija for elnin seeking the delights of rough cut gems. For elnin that are less fond of gems there are various stones that can be found across Eyre too. Depict your elnin discovering gems and rocks to collect and observe. What features do these rocks have? Do the elnin that hunt for them leave the rocks where they find them, or do they take them along for the journey? These small fragments of Eyre's ground may not become actual crowns but they are surely sights worth seeing.

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While imagery is not found in sigils across Eyre, contour lines and pictures were a starting point for practicing coordination with a brush. Eventually such artful marks led to the creation of Eyrescript and sigils that have depth and meaning. While sigils written on their own with a simple brush and ink may not have much power to them, as crowns they are beautiful creations that can translate to very simple spells. Depict your elnin practicing calligraphy to write Eyrescript, some vague written sigils that hold no magical power, or a drawing of something found in nature with only ink strokes. Think about how the experience might bring them more in tune with writing, language, ink mediums, and typography.

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There are a lot of old items in Eyre that come with stories of those who have kept them. Some elnin understandably become very attached to certain objects unlike those found in the natural landscape. At times they even collect them in one location or just keep one to enjoy at home. Depict your elnin either looking at an antique item they own or helping out with the cleaning and organizing of items at a local antique store.

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A mix of cool temps, breaths of condensation, and crackling fires can be found in the region of Strynhalde. Depict your elnin enjoying some time by a fire, watching the clouds, or enjoying an activity that combines the two in this chilling landscape. Maybe they've even found a nice hotspring to soak in while some stones are warmed over flames for a relaxing time later?

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Sometimes it's not right to contain other living creatures due to a lack of knowledge or resources to care for them. That doesn't mean that elnin don't dream of having small creatures by their side though. When left to the imagination they may try to create a new friend of their own. Depict your elnin building figures of critters or plants out of other materials, to make their own fake imitations of small living creatures found across Eyre they wish they could have. While these little crafted figures are not the real creatures, they act as an inspirational guidepost for elnin who are fond of crowns resembling fauna.

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No one knows why elnin can be so particular about the shapes of metal crowns but they tend to make most of them quite traditional. At times still there are some elnin seeking to work in more abstract metal forms though for a little more interest to their days. Depict your elnin admiring a gallery display of several traditional diadem crowns created by Eyre metalsmiths. While these may not be crowns that float above an elnin's head they may be inspiring to an elnin that's got a keen eye for metal and refined gems.

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Depict your elnin somewhere in the process of purifying a piece of shard evidence from a daeva's tracks. Shards are a dark purple hue with small white (or black) halos floating around them seen. After an elnin has found some evidence of a daeva there is a communal responsibility to ensure this evidence is disposed of safely. Disposal usually occurs at shrines located near the outskirts of major cities.

Elnin directly handling these shards can have some adverse side effects. Often causing an elnin to witness visions of space appearing to tear before them. Within these tears, a gray and dreary landscape corrupted by dark purple shards is revealed, much like scenery associated with Vahl D'sari or Dusk. To safely transport these shards elnin can use their pomu!

When handed a corrupted energy of shard, an elnin's pomu takes on a solid gray stone shape where the pomu is rendered temporarily immobile. In this form, an elnin can safely use their pomu to hold the shard to ward off further exposure to physically handling the shard itself. Once in this state, stone pomus are secured to their elnin in some way, either tucked safely in a bag, or secured onto the elnin with a rope or harness for transit.

While the elnin carries the shard with their stone pomu, they are not subject to these terrible visions. Once an elnin arrives at a shrine with their pomu, they must leave their stone pomu there for a day to finish the purification process of the shard. Purified shards are transparent or white and can be left on shrine altars. After the job is done, elnin are often witnessed treating their pomu to snacks and other favored items they picked up in town while their pomu helps with the purification process.

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All kinds of fuzzy little critters inhabit Eyre, and there are plenty of them that have quite luxurious fur all the way down to the tips of their tails. It's not a surprise most elnin fall under this category as well! Depict your elnin observing another critter, or elnin, with a furred tail. What sort of qualities or features does this furred tail exhibit and does the fluffy feature have any functional benefits or is it all just for a bit of decoration behind them?

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After visiting a corrupted location, some elnin are left feeling paranoid, leading to visions of daeva appearing in their dreams. Of course, elnin experiencing these nightmares have never seen a daeva directly, but there have been some vague descriptions floating around by word of mouth over the years. Daeva are rumored to be monsters that come in a variety of shapes, with bodies made of dark violet energy (a combination of solid anima and non-solid/pure energy form of mana) covered in places by blackened plates or scaling. Parts of their body are ringed by glowing halos (black or white), some say that they can appear in different colors but the black/violet variety are the most common.

Depict the nightmare your elnin encountering a daeva when they've never actually seen one. What do they imagine daevas looks like based on the rumors? How has the background setting of their nightmare been influenced by signs of corruption seen? (Sheared shrines, patches of miasma hanging in the air, etc.)

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Depict your elnin passing into a pocket space that's a ways beyond a visible overwild border. Occasionally, some elnin can mistake the warning signs of encountering an overwild border for just being new to an area. Ignoring the abnormalities that appear in those boundary areas can lead to them ending up in a sort of pocket space where the features of two regions appear to overlap.

For example, you might find half of the space to be covered in Strynhalde's snow while the other is clearly a beach from Palu'au. While pocket dimensions do not occur with every boundary being passed, the experience can be very energetically destabilizing for an elnin. They are also left unprepared to continue further, as they may not be equipped to handle the unexpected terrain, and no elnin has reported ever fully crossing through a pocket space and successfully reaching their destination. In these scenarios, the best known advice is to turn around and retrace their steps until the elnin has passed back through the overwild border they came through originally. There at least they will find themselves safely back in the region they started out in, and can seek out a different path to take.

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Depict your elnin encountering a border to the overwilds. Most of the time, the borders aren't visible except in a few scattered places where the miasma is especially dangerous. Lately though, elnin have reported stumbling upon these bordering areas.

The borders don't always look the same, but they fall over the landscape at a point. The most common appearance for these boundaries is an oil sheen iridescence that hangs in the air or a veil that's kind of like the northern lights but in dark purples and blues. This veil could also look similar to the surface of water dyed purple, only sitting vertically in the air opposed to horizontally like the surface of a lake would. These are not the only ways they can appear, but are common depictions.

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Borders can appear like the northern lights (only with darker purples and blue and closer to the surface of the land below rather than just in the sky), or ripples of iridescence or gradients in front of the landscape an elnin’s currently in.

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Depict your elnin revisiting a local place they used to visit that's been destabilized by an overwild border. How has the scenery been destroyed or disrupted? Has a favorite mana well become dark and corrupt? Maybe a favorite shrine they left offerings at is is now sheared in half? Elnin will likely have varying reactions to their peaceful places being wrecked.

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Mana wells are areas with a higher than normal concentration of mana marked by anima crystals, overgrown plants, and unusually large animals or creatures appearing in colors that aren't normal for their species, etc

Generally, the color of the anima crystals will correspond to the region the mana well is found in. You can reference the Map of Eyre (or the Map of Eyre /w Borders for some corresponding regional mana colors) for ideas! For example, Zevija's anima is usually on the warm spectrum while Strynhalde tends toward pale blue/white, etc. These naturally occurring anima crystals should be depicted in organic shapes, opposed to artificial shapes. (Example 1, Example 2) In corrupted areas these crystals will likely appear dull, dark and cracked. Animals may not be present as they typically are and plant life may appear sickly. Vertical lines that denote mana bleed may also occur around mana wells specifically.

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Depict your elnin at a mana well laying out the samples they took on their journey observing crystals, smooth surfaces, and themselves. Samples should include: the gemstone acquired, some sand, a piece of melted glass, a container with water, and if the sculpture the elnin made of themselves is more mobile (not ice or larger) that can be optionally included as well! Mana concentration is high in these areas and organic-shaped anima crystals will be present. This act of offering samples wraps up their journey discovering crystalline properties.

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Mana wells are areas with a higher than normal concentration of mana marked by anima crystals, overgrown plants, and unusually large animals or creatures appearing in colors that aren't normal for their species, etc

Generally, the color of the anima crystals will correspond to the region the mana well is found in. You can reference the Map of Eyre (or the Map of Eyre /w Borders for some corresponding regional mana colors) for ideas! For example, Zevija's anima is usually on the warm spectrum while Strynhalde tends toward pale blue/white, etc. These naturally occurring anima crystals should be depicted in organic shapes, opposed to artificial shapes. (Example 1, Example 2)

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Depict your elnin creating a sculpture of themselves from one or more materials. This could be a snow or ice sculpture or some other material like clay or wood. Sculptures do not need to be smooth or super refined, they’re more about studying an elnin’s own features.

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Depict your elnin finding and observing a smooth surface of water or ice across Eyre. This can be them encountering a very still lake or niche somewhere, or in chillier regions an area of smooth ice. This act assumes a sample of water is being taken from said location, however the act itself must minimally depict your elnin viewing a smooth surface, even if there is additional imagery or writing to mention they take a sample as well!

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Depict your elnin acquiring glass. Do they buy it outright or hand over a portion of their sand sample to a forge to be melted down? Is there anything special about the glass they’re acquiring? Maybe they’ve picked up glass with a fancy hue or a lack of the material locally means they have to take apart something else to get a glass sample.

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Depict your elnin collecting some sand from a beach or desert location in Eyre. What observations do they make about the sand they’ve picked up? Do they have any particular feelings about the abundant sand crystals that seem to appear everywhere, like all over their belongings and fur?

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