During the War of Light and Darkness, a tragedy occurred that tore a
rift between New Celest and Serenwilde. A young Celestine named Erion
sought the advice of Elohora, greatest of the Holy Supernals. Through a
series of misunderstandings, Erion misguidedly came to believe that in
order to kill Gorgulu, the Devourer of Souls, he must be fed the
innocent fae of Faethorn. However events transpired, it is clear that
Prince Rhysus of New Celest believed this outrageous claim and gathered
the armies of Light kill the fae to feed Gorgulu. The fae were
slaughtered, including an innocent fae girl and fed to Gorgulu. Many
citizens did cry out in protest once these deeds became known, though it
was too late for anything to be done. In a height of irony, this did not
weaken Gorgulu, but rather made him stronger, and in return he slew
every last Celestian who sought to kill him.

Usually, when Gorgulu takes the fae, he turns them into demonic beings
to serve the Demon Lords of Nil. However, one spirit resisted the
change, the spirit of a little fae girl. Struggling on the wheel of
birth and death, she was reborn into Faethorn, but the tainted touch of
Gorgulu was upon her. Slowly, agonizingly, she began to turn into an
imp.

All of Serenwilde came to her aide, trying in vain to reverse the
transformation. But the cosmic powers of Nil were alien to the magic of
the fae, and finally Serenwilde turned to the Magnagora and New Celest
for answers. The Holy Supernal, Japhiel, Illuminator of Merciful
Justice, spent several days in meditation and speculated that as imps
were the province of Nifilhema, Queen of Insufferable Cruelty, it was
only she who could reverse the transformation. But Nifilhema was
unlikely at best to aide Serenwilde, but Japhiel proposed an
alternative. A true tear from Nifilhema may reverse the curse laid upon
the little fae girl. But how to make her cry? It was discovered that a
poem existed, written in the time before the Taint by King Gorgaliel to
his Queen Nifilhema. Find the poem and read it to her and her memory may
cause her to shed a tear.

Meanwhile, the little fae girl was underoing a series of painful
transformations. Her body began growing horns and a tail, and she
suffered between mood swings of violence to that of utter confusion.
Time was running out and the lost poem was nowhere to be found, though
many searched to the far reaches of the Basin. Finally, Hayden, Laysus,
Gregori and Caedryn turned to the great ancestral spirits of the Seren
for advice, a process that took almost a month to fulfill. But time was
running out, and they needed the full moon to call the great ancestors,
so they turned to the Moon Sisters on the Serenwilde's ethereal
reflection. Surrounded by a coven of those who follow Moon Spirit, the
Moon Sisters beseeched Moon to show her face early to help the poor fae
girl. And so it was. Finally, the great ancestral spirit of the Seren
was called and he gave a prophesy on where to find the pieces of the
poem. After many minds pondered the prophesy, it was finally made clear
-- the pieces of the poems were than scattered throughout the astral
plane!

Serenwilde then turned to Warlord Chade of Magnagora for help to
transverse the dangerous astrospheres. The search was difficult, as
several died in the search, but finally the pieces of the poem were
recovered. Valek read the entire poem to Nifilhema and she shed a single
blue tear that hardened into a diamond. Incensed at what she heard,
Nifilhema promptly slew Valek, but the true tear was recovered.

The little fae girl was in the throes of transforming into an imp,
developing a taste for blood as her skin bubbled and pulsed with her
tainted change. Just in time, Warlord Chade gave her the true tear of
Nifilhema, which liquefied and encapsulated the little fae girl in a
thin bluish shell. When the shell broke apart, the transformation was
reversed and she was made whole again. Thankfully, her memory of that
time seemed to be erased.

Thus ends the tragedy of the little fae girl on a note of hope and
triumph.


Penned by my hand on the 24th of Vestian, in the year 102 CE.