THE IONMIS GLOBE |
(Styrásh: lit. "Forest Treasure") A small cut emerald globe the size of a child's fist. It allows those of the Ylfferhim who are endowed with limited predictative powers to be granted a greater understanding of future events. By gazing into the centre of the globe, it is believed that events that will come to pass may be perceived.
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The Cárpa'ál'Wievóc
tells that the globe was believed to have been given as a
gift by the Goddesss
of Destiny, Seyella,
to the first elves before the burning of the
Tree of Life, originally as a
method for the elves to understand
Her purposes. The
Ylfferhim will tell you
that the globe became simply a route with which
the blinded Goddess could give the
elves foresight of what must come to pass.
The Quaelhoirhim tradition also
holds myths about the Ionmis, though some of this tribe hold very different
versions about the origins of the globe. Here it is believed that Ionmis was a
vessle with which to keep the spirit of The One
close at hand and it relfected the Dream in the time
before it became reality.
Ionmis may have originally been kept in the
Quaelhoirhim capital of Elving
and moved during the assault on the city in the first
Sarvonian War. The first document that reveals
Ylfferhim possession
of Ionmis is a Quaelhoirhim
inventory of Ylfferhim cities just
before the tribes declaration of indepedence and dates
from about 760 b.S.
Since this time it has been housed in the
Ylffer capital. It is the prized
possession of the
Ylfferhim monarch, the Leias,
and usually only the monarch has access to it. The one exception to this
rule was during the reign of King Anthioullsn (200-100
b.S.). A
great warrior and diplomat, the Leias had no talent for
using the power of Ionmis to discern the future. He gave the globe to the Bard
Elothis, who during his long lifetime produced the greatest and most accurate
prophecy about Eyelian affairs. When
his purpose was complete and he died, his successor.
Cethas, handed the globe back to the monarch of the time, Marincao.
One prophecy refers to Ionmis itself. Elothis predicted
that the globe would shatter and break in the season before the
Ylfferhim's darkest and brightest
hours. It did shatter in the year 1100 during the reign of the Leias Wren
Wllyfirea. The tribe was subsequently attacked by dark
elves from the Shivering Woods. The
war cemented an often uneasy friendship between the
Ylfferhim and the
Quaelhoirhim, and an alliance was
also made with the Tethinrhim, with
whom the independent
Ylfferhim never had contact.
The kingdom was then returned to the reign of Wren who had
made friendly links to human tribes in
Northern Sarvonia. First,
promising contacts with
Santhala, which were established lately,
also mean that the
Ylfferhim
elves now promise to be a strong, less
elusive voice in the Santharian future.
Information provided by
Wren
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