Yet each time the twins present the smith with a new challenge, he simply gives a small smile and returns to the fires of the forge.Ī foe would be well-advised to avoid confronting the Sisters of Twilight unless he possesses absolute certainty that he can fell them both in quick succession. No other, not even Daith’s fellow lords and ladies of the great council, can command his time so completely as the Sisters of Twilight. The master smith dotes upon the pair in the manner of a proud uncle, and indulges Naestra’s obsession with the perfect honing of her time-worn blade as uncomplainingly as he does Arahan’s ardent insistence at carrying a freshly-fashioned spear into each battle. Though inclined to seek battle from afar, Naestra and Arahan do not shirk the bitter press of melee should the situation require.Īll of their armaments, be they arrows or blades, are crafted upon Vaul’s Anvil by no lesser hands than those of Daith. Armed thusly, the sisters walk paths that even Waywatchers dread, and are said to tread the glades of the Dreaming Wood with as little concern as they do the eternally sunlit groves of Arranoc.
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Those wielded by Naestra become anathema to creatures of anarchy and discord, whilst Arahan’s tools of battle inflict great harm on beings with noble souls. Any weapons the sisters touch become infused with a portion of their nature. Even amongst the fey folk of Athel Loren the Sisters of Twilight are notable for an other-worldliness of spirit and manner. They know that Naestra and Arahan speak with the authority of their beloved Mage Queen no secret of the past will ever change that. Ultimately, however, the Wood Elves debate and retell these possibilities solely out of their love of storycraft. A few stories even claim that the sisters are as divine as Ariel and Orion, but most commonplace by far are the songs and tales that claim the twins are simply Ariel’s daughters, and thus princesses of Athel Loren by right of blood and lineage. Others recount that the twins are the darkest and lightest aspects of Ariel’s spirit made manifest, her passion and mercy split apart from her soul so that they can no longer dominate her being as they have in the past. Some say that they are the splintered halves of a young Elf-maid who became lost in the Wildwoods long ago, and was remade so that she might better serve the Weave.
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None save for the Mage Queen know the sisters’ true origins, though there are many rumours that purport to fill this gulf. The Sisters of Twilight first appeared during the long years of Ariel’s self-imposed exile from the mortal realm, acting as her representatives upon the great council.