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Update on the Land of the Fallen Fairies

(Osbob-the-omniscient) asked for a land of a fallen fairies update on tumblr... and since I won't have tumblr soon I wanted to transfer it over here:

There's been... quite a few changes (At least on my end, I think on the macrolevel things are fairllyyy similar)

But!

So overall I've been heavily focusing on the Anuli backstory portion. This is what I've been rewriting all year, but I think it's for good reason! It's finally getting to a place that's richer and more nuanced and has some plot elements.

Anuli now has access to talking to the pixies from the very beginning. Because fae's alone and tethered beside Kamari's tree for long stretches of time, fae ends up telling stories to faerself about everything and everything, trying to keep this villainous, tether-caused feeling from taking over faer. (Anuli's overstimulated from the tether and the temperature, under stimulated from the lack of things to do, but fae doesn't know that.)

And there's this flower patch that fae likes lying beneath to calm faerself down... because Anuli's roots slightly curl around the sunflower's fae hears bits and pieces of their whispers and chatter to each other, and it's a very large part of keeping faerself okay when Kamari's away (that rhymed wow).

When they wilt in the fall, Anuli freaks. Fae comes to the conclusion that they forgot how to be yellow and tries telling them a story that should remind them. (I'm letting Anuli be a little silly instead of some washed up college literature professor /silly)

And ends up contacting the pixies, who've been translating the sunflowers' abstract feelings into words for Anuli.

A bit of background! Pre-pixie crisis, dryads were the fairies who had access to how the outside world looks. Pixies, being these abstract, semi-hive mind, mental fungal fairies with no set identity, never really see the outside world, so they get all their information from dryads.

Considering climate change, habitat deterioration, all that jazz, pixies wanted as much information from the dryads as possible so they could formulate possible solutions for how to deal with changing conditions.

(As far as they are concerned, this is this world-disease. Humans are only these annoying pests that came along with it, and no fairy really pieces the 'humans are the cause of it all' together. They don't have history textbooks sadly.)

A fun little thing pixies do, being fungi (it's an interesting thing to look up, mycorrhizal fungi), is conduct trades of nutrients between trees, and when the soil quality begins to deteriorate, they withhold nutrients from trees, prioritize some over others, get some trees addicted.... it's a whole thing.

The dryads call this the 'pixie crisis' and afterwards, they shun all pixies, reducing them to the bare minimum needed to survive, and no longer giving them any information from the outside world, essentially cutting them off.

Then comes a little dryad who wants to remind the sunflowers of who they're supposed to be. It's the only information the pixies have gotten in years.

So of course (I still have to figure this part out) they'll cause issues now that they have Anuli to describe the outside world.

This, along with Anuli breaking faer tether, leads to Anuli becoming a fallen fairy, having to fight Kamari in the Battle of the Fates.

So of course, Kamari tries to save Anuli.

Which causes the Elders of the Unseen to send in other ambassadors.

(Annnddd I still have to figure this part out too)

But a heavily injured Kamari and a saved Anuli make their way to leave Trinity Hollow with Ankh, who's mostly there to take care of Kamari and has a grudge against Anuli.

That's the plan for now! Anuli wakes up old, godly beings, Kamari suffers, Ankh loses everyone but Kamari, Anuli's mental health goes to garbage. Tragic little found family!

Thanks for asking!!! <3 <3 /gen

I'm currently making a Sitara doll for art, and I'm hoping I can make everyone size accurate.

In other news... I'm trying to work on a blog post about revamping Aisfa and Nali (the two other members of Ankh and Sitara's friend group that fell apart after Sitara got condemned)

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Dec 08, 2024

aww poor anuli. for sure I'll post my lore, I'm making a doc of it anyway so I'll post the part about the woods! (when I finish it)

Dec 07, 2024

yo I love that the sunflowers talk, I love love love making semi to fully sentient plants (its a big part of my lore). also. what does ankh have against anuli??

Noorie

Dec 07, 2024

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'semi to fully sentient plant' supremacy! (I'd love to hear about your lore btw /not forced. You could put it on the land of fallen fairies' section since plant-related things fall under that category.) And about Ankh... good question! It's something I had to set in stone recently because I had no idea for the longest time.

Ankh originally 'popped up' as an ambassador (a fairy who takes fairies with iffy qualities to be condemned) who had a past with Kamari and hated Anuli. That's it. So as Ankh developed into faer own character that has nothing to do with being an ambassador, I had to see what I could change. (And faer ambassador-like involvement was a constant until very recently where I decided it absolutely would not fit faer 'I think society is a disease' philosophy)

Why then, does fae hate Anuli?

Two reasons. Which one means more to Ankh is up for the viewers to decide /half joking.

Reason 1) Trees are the cure to societal issues.

Ankh puts a huge focus on tree connection being the reason for the societal 'diseases' appearing in the recent generation. Fae believes that society caused a disconnect from trees, hence all the issues. Now, fae doesn't care if you're a planted fairy, a loner, dependent on pixies, what's most important is that you rekindle your connection with your tree. The other distinctions are societal nonsense.

Anuli does not have a tree. Therefore, Ankh sees Anuli as something uncurable. Something that'll inherently fall ill to diseases of the mind, sort of like a parasite. (In fact, Ankh does call Anuli this and Anuli uses that as a title to demean faerself later on).

Reason 2) Kamari.

Kamari loves Anuli as faer youngling a LOT, and fae assumes that Ankh would too, given how much Ankh loved Sitara (another youngling that Kamari technically killed but Ankh didn't see it that way soooo...). Ankh might've gotten past the idea that Anuli doesn't have a tree (eventually), if it weren't for the pain Anuli caused Kamari. Anuli would've became a fallen fairy, having to fight Kamari in a Battle of the Fates, pretty quickly if it weren't for Kamari pleading with the elders. Kamari never pleaded for anything before, and fae does pay dearly for it. The punishments for caring for Anuli get Kamari exhausted and sick and further from faer freedom then fae was prior.

Put these two reasons together, and to Ankh, Anuli is a parasite that drains Kamari's life away.

Now, do the three of them travel across Trinity Hollow so they can leave together? Yes. Do I plan to have Ankh eventually care somewhat for Anuli? Yes? Kind of? I'm not there yet so I don't know for sure, but I imagine Ankh starts to see Anuli from Kamari's perspective.

But by that time Anuli has caused a LOT of pixie issues (not entirely faer fault but ehhh not to the rest of society) and fae hates faerself a LOT more than Ankh hates faer.