#glaciole

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Shalien and Glaciole are a little complicated, so I hope this isn’t way more information than you were looking for.  Basically, in the fantasy world I set characters in, races fall out like this:

~in the beginning~ you had the ones in black, three magical races and boring, non-magical humans.  Furies died out, Fates sequestered themselves, and the Fey essentially diffused out; they are pure magic and the essence of change, and had no particular interest in maintaining any sort of sameness.  So they fell in love with mortals, and landscapes, and let other people define them, and became other things - elemental spirits, etc etc.  Humans in any of the ~current day~ settings I use can use magic due to some amount of fey heritage in their genealogy.  The Fey spread magic out into the world, and disappeared.

All except Shalien!  He’s the last Fey, through more inattention than anything else; he simply never got attached to anything enough to let it change him.  A few hundred years before the present day of my Tolley et al doll group, he got involved with Queen Josephine and her civil war, and, long story short, her mages locked him in a lighthouse out of fear of his power falling into other hands.  Stuck there until Remington and company follow the rumors to find him, all he had to do for centuries was watch people (he liked Florian’s adventures).

So, once he’s out, he’s more than a little unbalanced and his attention span definitely hasn’t improved.  All the humans he knew are dead (although a few of them are ghosts he can still talk to) and he’s the last one of his kind to keep the integrity of what they once were.  He’s not fond of what most of the others became, but Glaciole changed less than the others, so Shalien will make do.

Glaciole was Fey until a few centuries earlier than Queen Josephine, but on the other side of the world.  He froze to death in the service of a different aspiring queen, Ceonsae, and became a sort of elemental spirit, although one with much more sense of self than most.

Glaciole matches my new comforter almost perfectly