Iyindae Fallsong

"'I have never met explorers so careless in their travels around the world....look at yourselves, you look no better equipped to travel your own lands let alone mine. Where you see adventurers trained and geared toward finding and discovering new lands....I see peasants and farmers who know nothing of the outside world. If you believe you will step foot inside my domain, you are sorely mistaken.' - Inyindae speaking to Lazarus Shotman and his Expedition at the fringe of the Kingdom of Torcalen."

The Beginning
Inyindae Fallsong was born on a chilly autumn morning with her sisters Anavayel and Inavana, making them one of the rare groups of Triplets born in the Torcalen Kingdom. Their mother and Father were outcasts, forced to live in the forest alone and without contact within their race, and facing the harsh conditions that were the creatures of the forest. When they were born in 496 E.A. (Specific Date Unknown), fall had beset the forest, and creatures began to come out of hiding to prey on the weaker creatures, their father was killed 10 Days after their birth, fending off their home from Torcalen Pit Spiders. For 5 days after, she, her mother and triplet sisters huddled in the small house nestled in the woods until the chittering and clicking of the spiders disappeared into the forest, leaving them alone with the wind and trees.

She would not have been able to see these events even if she wanted too for she had been born blind and with snow white hair. But her ears and nose gave her vivid enough memory as it was, allowing her to remember these events as vividly as if she had seen them with her eyes. The blood, the screams and the death. If it wasn't enough that she lost her father, her mother died a few weeks after their birth due to the unhealthy conditions she lived in with lack of food and three children. The three girls were left, crying and squirming in their little hovel for 3 Days until a creature found its way to the hovel.

A bear nudged the door aside and waddled in, brushing aside the rubble and decaying wood of the house until it came upon the three girls squirming in a blanket behind a chest. It was bewildered at first, and prepared to kill the three children. No one knows why, or what happened to the bear that made it change heart, but without hurting the smallest, Inavana, it lifted her from the wood ground by carefully picking her up in her jaws and carrying her out, leaving the remaining two alone.

Next came a deer, searching for its lost children that wandered from its herd. It came across the remaining two girls easily, finding them in the same place that the bear had found them. It snorted and stamped its hooves, but when the girls did not cry or try and crawl away, the deer nudged the biggest, Anavayel and sniffed her over. She smacked at the deer's nose and giggled with laughter, again, it was unsure what prevented this animal from leaving or killing the girls, but instead, it lifted Anavayel from the ground with its antlers and left the middle child alone.

Inyindae lied on the ground and listened to the world around her, smelling everything there was. She remembers the beautiful smells and the sounds of birds singing in the wind. Then aslong as it went...it went silent. Nothing chirped and nothing made sounds on the wind. She felt the presence of something sinister enter the hovel, its soft walking and its low bent growls sounded from the doorway as it sniffed its way inside, following the scent trail of the deer who had come in earlier that day. It came upon her with a snarl, drool dripping from its maw and its red...hollow eyes eyeing her over. Like her sisters, no one knew what happened when the wolf decided to spare her rather than eat her. But it growled, and when it brought its muzzle close, she merely stared back at him. But the wolf let the girl climb onto his head before slowly leaving the hovel behind.