Fyrij's Box

It all started one day, when a button popped off Drowned Dough's pirate coat while he enjoyed the sunset from the roof of him home. He bent to pick it up--but Fyrij, a fleet little caroling, snatched it up and flew away.
Drowned Dough was a bit annoyed, a bit amused, and sought the avian. He looked high, he looked low, but no Fyrij. He finally found him in the mist room, sitting on a sofa and sharing a fruity snack with the ancient ghost, Qira.
No button, though.
A bit more looking ensued. Fyrij again disappeared, and after half the evening passed, Vantra discovered him huddled near her pack, cheeping in a pitiful way. Big blobby tears filled his eyes as he stood in front of a small side pocket, wings out to protect it from the searchers.
Vantra reassured him, and looked inside. The button lay on top of a jumble of keepsakes.

Dough let him keep the button, since it meant that much to him.
The next day, Kjaelle gifted the caroling with a treasure chest in which he could keep his precious treasures. They decorated it, the efline wrote his name so no one would mistake the box for another, and they carefully settled each keepsake within. Then she added a spell so all he needed to do to open the lid was to press his nose against the metal clip keeping it closed.
Plenty of room remains for him to grow his collection.

All artwork by Shade Melodique

Fyrij's Curios

The Chest

The treasure chest is Fyrij's most prized KEEPsake. Not only does it hold all his other treasures, his favorite co-conspirator of curiosity, Kjaelle, gave it to him.

The Button

Fyrij needed to be SWIFT and sure to gain this gift from the famous pirate captain and founder of Merdia, Drowned Dough.

The Stick

A small STICK Fyrij brought with him from his home in the Dark, a deep, shadowy forest on Fading Light.

The Seed

This POINTY seed is from the first fruit that Qira and Fyrij shared together in the Snake's Den.

The Ribbon

Fyrij loves Vantra's flower-petal skirt. Depending on the light, it changes from shimmery purple to blue. In a SWEET gesture, she clipped a small bit from the skirt and gave it to him. He will open his chest to snuggle with it.

The Gem

Katta decided Fyrij needed a way to PROTECT his chest, so he did not hover over it day in and out as they traversed the Snake's Den. He gifted him a Darkness gem that only allows him or a mini-Joyful member to open it.

The Earring

Qira was touched that Fyrij kept the seed. So he gifted the caroling with another keepsake, one of his LIGHT-blessed, Aristarzian-designed earrings.

The Piece of Emblem

No one knows where Fyrij picked up the shredded bit of ANCIENT mephoric emblem. When discovered, the mini-Joyful freaked out until Katta assured them that the small bit no longer retained energy--then sternly lectured the caroling about snagging dangerous objects.

The Knobs

Once Laken's head essence fused with his torso essence, he no longer needed the base that propped up his head. Fyrij chirped and tweeted and tried to unscrew the knobs himself before the base went into storage; Qira finally helped him because of his interest in the MEMORIES these held for him.

The Note

Once upon a time, Lorgan looked high and low for a specific note he had written down while in the library in Selaserat. He never did find it.
Fyrij, enchanted with the strange LANGUAGE on the scrap of paper, cheerfully helped himself to it.

The String

Fyrij darted in and snagged this string as Vesh put new ones on his glavix. Knowing the caroling's love of MUSIC, instead of placing the string in his backup pile, he let him keep it.

The Necklace

A seashell appeared in Fyrij's collection after the mini-Joyful visited the Water Market. Mera made him a necklace so he could PROUDly wear it.

The Portrait

To cheer Fyrij up after Katta's lecture, Tally drew a portrait of him. He found sticks for the frame, helped her paint them, and remains very proud of the him-inspired ART.

The Badge

Verryn made Fyrij a Passion badge, one small enough the little avian could hold it in his mouth when necessary. He figured that the KNOWLEDGE he was under the auspices of Death's Consort would keep him from getting into too much trouble because of his antics.

The Rune

Dedari, seeing how Fyrij got his curious self into trouble, made him a traditional runestone with the Voritsti symbol for LUCK etched into the top. Fyrij will carve the same symbol into the dirt with his talon before he embarks on another curio theft.

The Flower

Upon arrival at the port city of Selaserat in Greenglimmer, Fyrij disappeared, only to reappear with a beautiful flower snagged on his tooth. Lesanova 'borrowed' one of Lorgan's thick scholarly texts and helped him press it, keeping it beautiful for all TIME.

The Feather

While initially terrified of the humongous, SENTIENT Snake, Fyrij quickly fell out of his fear and accompanied the serpent around the ruins. An offering of a found-item bird scultpure that the Snake displayed caught his attention, and the reptile let him keep a single feather from it.

The Braid

When it snowed in the Snake's Den, it was a momentous, singular occassion for the desert. Rayva and Salan, the vulfs who accompanied the mini-Joyful, grew thick, long fur against the cold. Knowing Fyrij's pechant for grooming them and flying away with the shedded fur, Tagra collected them and braided them into a SOFT token for him.

The Float Piece

After the CHAOS of the terrible, snow-laden rock storm, the large glass float that unwittingly provided shelter to several caravans shed its hardened shell and retreated to its cave. Fyrij snagged a piece of the shell, cut himself on the sharp edge, and cried. Kenosera picked up both, cared for the caroling's cut before securing the pretty, transluscent keepsake in his chest.