Shimmerfly

Shimmerfly is a night fae faerie who is the historian of the dream trees found in Hibernal Hollow in Ardenweald.

Greetings, what would you like to know about our trees?

• Gossip

• Yes! Each tree has a name! Our tree in Hibernal Hollow is named Tirna Glayn. To the north, the grove of Tirna Vaal gets its name from the tree there.

• Tirna Noch, the fallen tree, was lost earlier in the drought, and Tirna Rowen up in Heartwood Grove has just recently perished.

• Some other trees that still live are Tirna Kaithe, which is in the grove of Claw's Edge.

• Tirna Eas is the tree in Glitterfall Basin. And my home tree, Tirna Fenn, is in Dreamsong Fenn.

• But other trees have been lost, like Tirna Marwol, in the Darkreach.

• And of course there's Tirna Scithe, but I wouldn't dare go near there, it's too dangerous!

• Oh yes! The tirnenn are the wonderful, tall, walking-talking treefolk. They are somehow related to the trees of Ardenweald, but they are so old and strange, we don't exactly know how.

• Some of them can even hear the trees speaking to them! Though they speak more in song and melody than in words, from what I understand.

• It's fascinating!

• <Simmerfly's expression falls.>

• It is a terrible tragedy to lose a tree. When there is not enough anima for the forest as a whole, the Queen may choose to let one die in order to save the rest.

• A terrible choice, but necessary.

• When a tree dies, all of the wildseeds that were under its boughs cannot be sustained. Some may be taken to another grove, but the rest...

• And what's worse, some say that in the dead groves, the barrier between Ardenweald and other planes is weakest.

• They say, that in those places we are most vulnerable to attack.