Welcome, walking one!

Tiny Sylph side blog, of a Sylph that just wants to be friends            with everyone... unless they are walking ones    (so you better become a dancing or singing one instead!)

Sylphs are a pretty peaceful and gentle folk. They don’t seek to meddle with human or elven affairs, and just wish to bask in the sun, or sometimes pull pranks on them.

But their leaves and legs are pricey objects, powerful herbs and can be weaved into powerful robes also. So they were hunted like animals, and it decimated their numbers greatly, since then they hide and are considered extinct. 

They float at all times at least one meter over the ground, so they call all not floaty ones.. walking ones.

Sylphs are one of the beast races of Final Fantasy XIV, being numerous around the Eastern Black Shroudand having the best relationship with the city-states of all of them. They speak a broken form of the common language and never use terms such as "I" or "We", opting for terms such as "The Woken Ones", "The Metal Ones", "The Seedy Ones", etc.

They nest in Moonspore Grove, which is blocked off by boulders. The pathways to the Grove have many sylphs that can be engaged in combat, and their houses can be easily seen glowing from tree trunks. A ground structure called the Goldleaf Dais can also be found in this area.

Due to the invasion of the Garleans in the Twelveswood and the following Calamity, some sylphs resorted to summoning Ramuh, the lightning-aspected primal. These sylphs have been 'touched', changing to a purple hue, and are fiercely defensive of their territory, only venturing outside to bring back untouched sylphs (which remain a green hue) into their fold. The untouched sylphs have since fled to a village called Little Solace, with the support of Gridania.

Although all feminine in appearance, sylphs are a dual-gendered species whose names reflect their gender. All male Sylph's names end in with "xio" while all female Sylph names end in "xia."

Unlike most species in which the female bears the offspring, only sylph males are capable of reproduction, and they do so via the single flower found upon their heads. After the flower is fertilized, it will eventually fall off, giving rise to a child known as a podling.