RS022 Several sylph archaeological expeditions to the lands surrounding Llyri have uncovered evidence that the suneaters and sylph share a common ancestor. Birdbone tools and other artifacts found at ancient sylph sites seem to indicate that, at one time, the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
RS023 While the Astral Templar may be the hand of the sylph theocracy, scholars of the Celestial Heritage Conservatory are certainly its voice. Equal parts cleric, educator, and arbiter of the law, scholars are well-respected members of sylph society, asserting[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
RS024 As ash has difficulty accumulating over water, it’s no surprise that the sylph city state of Llyri is a shoreline settlement. The sylph have done much to mitigate the harmful effects of Erj’s ash within their borders, from the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
RS025 Though typically immune to the effects of ash, even non-sylph prefer to use Llyran produce in their cooking, for its ability to clear the respiratory system and provide a literal breath of fresh air. The culinary demand is so[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
RS084 Llyri is the name given by the sylph to their city principality, located along Erj’s inner Western coast—although the name tends to refer more generally to the surrounding lands, as well. But while those lands are largely indistinct from[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
RS085 Owing to Llyri’s ashlessness, trees and assorted flora are much easier to grow within the city. Through centuries of careful cultivation, many species have become themselves a deterrent to ash, granting Llyri a tenuous natural layer of defense, that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
RS086 The creation of an ash-free environment takes more than one’s proximity to water and trees. Beyond horticulture, another discipline at which sylph excel is ventilation. Through the generations, the sylph have gained a singularly excellent understanding of air and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
RS087 It is a common myth throughout Erj that Thralls of Ybris are themselves a distinct, monstrous species, and many an erjan child is kept within parentally-defined boundaries by a fear they may be spirited away, should they stray too[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
RS088 Thralls bear a hatred for all that continues to be—and that hatred burns for no particular group more than the sylph, who also worship Ybris. However, to the sylph, the interpretation of Ybris as nothingness, as the Void, is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
RS089 The designless obliteration of all things is not the only way in which thralls venerate Ybris’ perfect absence of being—those few souls who have survived an encounter or bore witness from afar have returned with stories of ritual sacrifice,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…