(a.k.a. the Celestial)
Sylthari is a minor element, an Aethid, and the daughter of Zalikar and Lithmor. She was the first Aethid to be born and Zalikar's greatest treasure. She is referred to as The Celestial as all celestial bodies, except the sun itself, are her domain. The sun is still associated with her mother and the void of space is still associated with her father but she does have a few abilities from both of them.
Moon, stars, planets, comets, nebulas, black holes, etc. All of these fall under her influence. She is most associated with starlight and, the closest celestial body, the moon. She does have her own plane as well, Sylthari's Plane. As a minor element, she does not have aspects but since both of her parents possess a greater concentration of mental magic compared to the other Erlithmanil, Sylthari has strong influence over the mind as well.
by Lee Stepp
Unlike most Aethid, Sylthari enjoys surrounding herself with her own human families. Despite however many centuries pass and how many short lived humans she parts with, she still continues living amongst them and enjoying what their world has to offer. Just as the heavens enamor humanity, she is easily infatuated with them, very taken by their best qualities much like her mother.
However, she has come to understand and accept the importance of death and darkness like her father. Unlike many of the other Aethid, she dislikes placing herself above them as a god but she will still tend to the royal bloodlines she has sired for the sake of civil order. Those of the Celestial Archipelago possess the highest concentration of her blessings and revere her as their primary goddess, Amaterasu.
Racial Manifestations
by Lee Stepp
Sylthari's abilities are very mysterious and her gifts uncommon. Most are confined to the Celestial Archipelago. Each of these blessings would grant the lifeform a connection to Sylthari's Plane and this connection could be utilized in a given way. These gifts were passed down to their descendants as well and eventually beings came to call these gifts Racial Magic.
Sylthari has both physical and mental abilities and differentiating some of these using the Accian system can cause confusion. In fact, many of these manifestations may present both physical and mental abilities. The mental effects generally related to Sylthari are charming, soothing, drowsiness, calming and tranquility, waking dreams, fixation, mesmerizing, reading a person's true nature and even prediction of fate or destiny.
Her physical abilities can relate to celestial lights, gravitational pull, a number of void powers, some solar powers, the creation of miniature celestial bodies or even more severe and devastating abilities or manipulation of celestial bodies. These celestial lights also come in various forms and possess various properties based on what celestial body generates this light. Some of these lights can even generate radiation while more skilled casters can lace their light with Sylthari's mental influences. She has not granted humanity access to all of her own abilities, particularly those not meant for earthly environments such as creation of new stars. Finally, the power of these abilities wax and wane with the moon and are also further amplified during celestial events (passing comet, eclipse, etc.)
Manifestations
Manipulation
Physical:One is able to manipulate and reshape celestial forces present in their environment. This can be naturally occurring moonlight and starlight, influence over the tides, redirecting starlight to alter the appearance of the night sky (such as constellations), altering eclipses or the visual appearance of the moon.
Mental:Can manipulate emotions or states related to Sylthari, if they are occurring. Some among these casters can lace physical manipulations with mental manifestations as well with practice.
Aura
Physical: Able to summon or generate celestial light or miniature celestial bodies in various forms, the particular kind differing by individual.
Mental:Can generate temporary emotions, states, thoughts or memories related to Sylthari in those around them. This can include charming, waking dreams, tranquility and the like. Some can even generate prophecies and divinations. Some among these casters can lace physical manipulations with mental manifestations as well.
Touch
Physical: Able to freeze what they touch as if the void of space itself has interacted with the object. Others are able to grant what they touch a strong gravitational pull. Finally, there are those with this ability which instead can induce a strong charming affect, induce sleep or even a walking dream via touch.
Mental: This ability allows someone to read the soul, destiny and true nature of others by touching them. This is a mysterious ability which reads the true nature of others including a summation of their memories, emotions and thoughts. With sustained contact, the caster can sense the targets future and fate and even supply prophecies to some. ***The mental manifestation is among the rarest of her blessings, only passed down to those of her children and those originating from the Celestial Archipelago. It is most famous within the royal bloodline of Nippon***
Charge
Can store up celestial light inside their bodies without limit and cannot be harmed by such lights or the energies they possess whether these are magic or natural. They can convert this to energy, transfer the energy to another or re-release it like an aura at will.
Pocket
Able to create small portals into Sylthari's Plane big enough to reach their hand/arm inside and can place or remove small items from within the plane. This can be used similarly to Vokda's Plane or as a way to summon miniature celestial bodies.
Movement
Able to walk, step or move on celestial light or through voids regardless of or despite lack of surfaces and can move through space unimpeded and unharmed. Some are able to mesmerize or hypnotize others using their movements.
Slip
Able to allow their body to interact with physical matter similarly to moonlight, most matter passing right through them when activated.
Eye
Physical : Able to see clearly with even the slightest amount of celestial light or can switch to seeing all celestial light in their environment regardless of barriers. With practice, they can see anything touching or interacting with this light, the clarity depending on how intense it is. They are also able to clearly see, identify and understand celestial bodies in the night sky.
Mental:Can read a person's destiny and make prophecies or predictions about their future during certain phases of the moon and underneath the stars.
Sense
Physical: Able to feel their environment using celestial light, feel anything interacting with this light and feel this light in their environment despite barriers. They can also get a general sense/feel for the celestial bodies in the night sky.
Mental : Can feel impressions about someone's future and destiny during certain phases of the moon and underneath the stars.
Skin
Can produce celestial light from their skin and expand this affect around themselves into different shapes. They are also able to generate some illusions via this light with practice. With practice, this light can be laced with mental properties related to Sylthari.
Push
Can generate a powerful gravitational pull/field with their body as the epicenter, in various intensities. The space they create also acts similarly to the void of space, this intensity also coming in different intensities. Stronger effects quickly consume energy. Some of these casters can recreate miniature effects of a celestial event such as a black hole or supernova but not many have the energy needed to utilize this power.
Will
Can produce moonlight which amplifies the magic of others upon contact or can extend this effect into any of this light already present.
Voice
Able to lace their breath with mental effects related to Sylthari. When they speak, their words can cause extreme drowsiness, tranquility or charming effects.
Shadow
Can generate walking dreams, illusions or hallucinations which cause states related to Sylthari (charming, fixation, calming, drowsiness, etc.) or which imitate places or events occurring within space. Sometimes both.
Shield
Immune to negative effects and/or damage from all celestial magic and natural celestial occurrences. They are also able to navigate space without damage or hindrance.
Vision
Able to enter a meditative state in which the caster can explore and peek through portals or windows within Sylthari's Plane. This is an excellent way to explore and map space safely or observe celestial activity.
Step
Can enter and exit Sylthari's Plane via portals and travel the plane freely, without injury or hinderance. Because of these abilities, they can also navigate space itself safely without outside tools or equipment. They can bring another with them while maintaining contact or trap others inside.
Form
Can convert parts of their body into celestial light and even generate gravitational pull from that part of their body. Or, they have celestial light incorporated into their form in some way.
Body
Can convert their entire body into celestial light and merge with or travel along other such light. In this form, they can also generate gravitational pull, a small pocket of void similar to that of space and a number of psychological effects related to Sylthari. Their form most similarly resembles the magic form of Sylthari herself. Their skin goes pitch black, stars spackle across their body, their hair goes white (if not already white) and glows like moonlight and their eyes swirl with colors of a nebula. Only her direct descendants can possess this manifestation. Each individual will generally take up features of, appearance of and abilities related to a specific type of celestial body such as a moon, comet or star.
This is the simplified explanation of these abilities. See Physical Manifestations and Mental Manifestations for more details of how these abilities generally work as well as their limits and functions. Sylthari herself has more abilities beyond this list, able to even move, destroy and create celestial bodies at will.
Mental:Can manipulate emotions or states related to Sylthari, if they are occurring. Some among these casters can lace physical manipulations with mental manifestations as well with practice.
Mental:Can generate temporary emotions, states, thoughts or memories related to Sylthari in those around them. This can include charming, waking dreams, tranquility and the like. Some can even generate prophecies and divinations. Some among these casters can lace physical manipulations with mental manifestations as well.
Mental: This ability allows someone to read the soul, destiny and true nature of others by touching them. This is a mysterious ability which reads the true nature of others including a summation of their memories, emotions and thoughts. With sustained contact, the caster can sense the targets future and fate and even supply prophecies to some. ***The mental manifestation is among the rarest of her blessings, only passed down to those of her children and those originating from the Celestial Archipelago. It is most famous within the royal bloodline of Nippon***
Mental:Can read a person's destiny and make prophecies or predictions about their future during certain phases of the moon and underneath the stars.
Mental : Can feel impressions about someone's future and destiny during certain phases of the moon and underneath the stars.
This is the simplified explanation of these abilities. See Physical Manifestations and Mental Manifestations for more details of how these abilities generally work as well as their limits and functions. Sylthari herself has more abilities beyond this list, able to even move, destroy and create celestial bodies at will.
She has been known to create new stars and constellations on her whim and she possesses frightening destructive abilities not meant for earthly settings. She is also capable of generating syltharian crystals which possess an array of mysterious qualities, particularly tolerant of storing, channeling and withstanding intense energies. She is also very skilled at lacing her mental effects into the slightest words, movements and the like as well as having a natural sense of the true nature of those around her or even their fates. There is no better fortune teller.
Divine Domains
Sylthari's Plane
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
by Lee Stepp
She enjoys an immortal, regenerative body. While able to alter her sex, she prefers a female form. Like the other minor elements, her magic form is much more dramatic and divine than a humans but, like humans, she can switch between a regular human form and her magic one. When she is in her magic form, she appears more Alkelbulian, like her mother, and sometimes she will take these features on in her human form.
Body Features
by Lee Stepp
Her body is thin, delicate and extremely feminine. She is often used as standard for ideal beauty, alluring and ethereal.
Facial Features
by Lee Stepp
She has delicate features and pearl skin with a fine splattering of freckles across her face, shoulders and arms. Her eyes are akin to a nebula, a wild mix of magenta, indigo, cerulean and pink and her hair is white like moonlight. When passing off as human, she ceases the alternating colors of her eyes or even takes on a more ordinary appearance altogether. She can also alter her ethnicity, like most of her kind.
Special abilities
She has many abilities but overall, she has strong charming and mental influences as well as gravitational affects, freezing, light effects, etc.
by Lee Stepp
In her magic form, her skin changes to a black of the night sky. Her moonlight hair takes on an actual glow. Star like freckles also spread over her whole body and nearby objects have a tendency to begin orbiting about her. Despite her alluring glow, her skin in this form will freeze upon contact, sucking away any heat. Despite her beauty, she is harshly dangerous. Other details change depending on which celestial body she is channeling.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
by Lee Stepp
Sylthari is the daughter of two Erlithmanil, Zalikar and Lithmor. She was the first Aethid to be born and was greatly treasured by her father, who rarely showed affection to anyone. In fact several Erlithmanil were enamored by the charming child. In her youth, Sylthari was extremely passionate and championed for the arts, fortune telling, true magic and even acted as a protector of all maidens. While elegant and charming, she could also be wild and powerful, often hunting alongside Banalkar when the moon was full. She went by many names during this time, taking on the mantles of many goddesses from human lore and was a figure revered by matriarchal societies.
As Sylthari grew up, she also witnessed her father kill off mass amounts of humans, not sharing his reasoning with anyone but Dalyeric. He would give Sylthari vague or cryptic explanations when she would ask but she didn't understand any of it at the time. Much like her mother, she had an intense love and admiration for humanity, finding them beautiful and inspiring. Because of this, she found these actions gruesome and unjustifiable. This is what eventually led her to take part in the Downfall of the Erlithmanil and founding of the Kingdom of Accia. Many other Aethid came to view her as a traitor for her actions.
Sylthari would come and go from this kingdom over the many thousands of years following these events, restoring the celestial blood of the royal line when it grew too thin. Throughout history, she also established other royal lines who claim leadership based on their celestial heritage, including her favorite location in Emynea, the Celestial Achipelago.
Gender Identity
by Lee Stepp
She is firmly female, taking great enjoyment in the refined and delicate aspects of femininity. Despite her elegant nature, she is also a symbol of matriarchy and female empowerment, primarily in her youth.
Failures & Embarrassments
by Lee Stepp
While passionate about the cause in her youth, she came to regret her actions and involvement in the downfall of her family. With age, she began to understand her father's actions. She has many, many regrets.
Intellectual Characteristics
by Lee Stepp
She is very refined, elegant and diplomatic. She has a talent for knowing the best words to calm even the most furious circumstance. She has a mystical way of moving, speaking and expressing herself that enchants and mesmerizes those around her, much like the celestial bodies that she represents. Underneath this, however, she can be cold, distant and starkly cynical and realistic. She is quick to create distance between herself and others for her own protection. She gently inspires those around her but is quick to accept the harshest truths. She is still prone to despair and grief over all she has lost and left behind but also is quick to become infatuated with a new lover. She has tendencies and characteristics from both of her parents. She tends to cycle between being gentle and reserved and passionate and rebellious with the turning of centures. This greatly depends on the treatment of women in society but she is no longer able to directly champion for young maidens as she had in the past.
Morality & Philosophy
by Lee Stepp
She is markedly less passionate compared to her youth. She has lived among humanity and experienced much, seeing the truth and beauty in both of her parents' point of view. She understands the necessity of death and darkness, while still finding the beauty and inspiration humanity is capable of. She loves humanity thoroughly and enjoys the lifetimes she can experience with her immortality. Unlike many other Aethids, she doesn't like to place herself above humanity. She will play as a goddess, when necessary, and feels responsible for maintaining social balance by renewing her royal bloodlines, directly or indirectly. She places value in simple, tranquil, every day life and enjoys supporting the best of humanity much more gently than her mother and with more hope and trust than her father. She hopes he would be proud of her now but knows he likely thinks kindly on her at all.
Relationships
Divine Classification
Divine
Religions
Current Status
wandering Emynea in disguise
Species
Ethnicity
Other Ethnicities/Cultures
Age
2867755
Date of Birth
990,184 DE
Circumstances of Birth
Firstborn of the Aethid
Birthplace
Family
Spouses
Accia Syltharis
(Husband)
Siblings
Children
Current Residence
Celestial Archipelago
Pronouns
She/Her
Sex
Female
Eyes
Indigo/Violet/Cerulean
Hair
moonlight white, long and fine
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
Pearl
Height
5'7"
Other Affiliations
Related Myths
Ruled Locations
Celestial Inheritance
by Lee Stepp
Sylthari is prone to falling in love with humans and is a matron to at least two royal lines in the Kingdom of Accia and the Celestial Archipelago. However, outside of maintaining these bloodlines it isn't uncommon for her to marry and create a human family from time to time. Mina Minx is a member of one such celestial family. Within Nippon, a certain clan is primarily responsible for renewing the celestial blood within the emperor's line. The specifics of how they interact with Sylthari is strict secret but there is no doubt Mina carries Sylthari's blood.
After Mina fulfills her duties to her clan, she settles down with Allen Minx and becomes the mother of Tia Minx . Tia is very much like her mother, inheriting Sylthari's Aura and possessing typical appearances of this bloodline (white hair, purple eyes, light skin and freckles). Like others Accians who descend from this Aethid, Tia also inherited Ithisda's Form. If not for her transformation, Tia likely would have been pressured into marrying into the royal line of the kingdom to restore their fading celestial lineage.
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