Context from Magdalena

Heiassa -   Don't test me. The included book should help with your magical puzzle - use it to practice your Auldrich Fae. Mindful of the vowel shifts, the cheat sheet I've inserted should help somewhat. Homework - the space in your heart is a place to keep things that are sacred and important. Use this text to construct a more appropriate treasure trove of compressed space.   Now, about my siblings. Brother Galfen gave birth to the Fae of The End. Blight, Drought, Ash, and Blade - they're a cycle of Fae that only ever had a single tree. Fae of the End leave nothing behind. No songs, no stories, memories, only the things they've consumed and the carnage of their passing. They can stay awake as long as there is something else to consume - when they sleep, they don't give their songs to their tree, rather, their tree 'cleanses' them of the memories, dreams and songs they've consumed. They begin their next cycle with only their own memories. Brother Galfen embodies each of the types of Fae he gave birth to. In the Pruning, it wasn't Fae who destroyed his children, rather, as groves died, they turned their claws towards Trolls, consuming them directly as though they were trees. That mistake cost them their existence as Galfen, like Mother, abandoned them to their own fates.   Sister Temira gave birth to the Fae of the Red Thorn. Despair, Agony, Hatred and Wrath. I won't deny them their beauty - Fae of the Black Heart were artists, poets, musicians and writers. The collected sad songs and gave birth to many. I wouldn't put it past Sister Temira to have saved the Red Thorn Grove - it's so far south of the Great River that it may have escaped the ravages of the wars that followed and the Fae of the Red Thorn have a VERY long cycle of slumber. I tread lightly in the far south precisely because Sister Temira has claimed a large swath of it as her own.   I should be clear - While there's no love lost between Brother Galfen and I, Sister Temira and I have been close over the past several millennia. More than once, she's held me in ways mother never would, shared in my tears each time my attempts to renew lost Fae failed, and we've mourned together as our numbers continue to dwindle. She's also raged with me against enemies I've made over the years - much like she was travelling with Brother Galfen in the vision you saw, she and I have spent centuries together wandering this world in lands far from here. I last spoke with her some time after I had taken you as a student, though she knows not of my success in growing a tree of Day and Night, nor of the war elves are currently fighting - at least, not from my lips.   As to Jaedien - While they needed him out of their way, I don't think either of them felt they could truly kill him. Jaedien's children were the Fae of Samsara - They cycled through Child, Teen, Adult and Elder, but when they slept, the only songs they heard were their own - because when they died as Elders, they were born again and again without end. No child would awake with all the songs they held before, but as they advanced to adulthood, they gained more and more of their memories of their past. Mother's Brightest didn't just carry a Light of Life, he also carried the Emerald Flame of Rebirth. He was one of the first of the Treeborn. Sister Ankhetla, the Guardian Wizard recovered Jaedien's body and brought him to Mother, begging that Mother DO SOMETHING as our family tore itself apart. She told me that Mother took him into the place she'd isolated herself, but that even his loss wasn't enough to bring her back to us.   I don't know how many of the Treeborn remain - many of us have embraced a life as nomads while some have hidden themselves away. Surely less than a score of us, even when you include the four imprisoned ones your discovered last year. Brother Galfen and I avoid each other - the last time we fought, a nearby civilization perished and while he cared little about collateral damage, even I am discomforted by the death of tens of thousands who I had no reason to kill. The last I heard of him was actually from Amytri - evidently there's a legend about Brother Galfen in Amytri's birthplace - some two hundred years before Amytri's birth, he evidently decimated some of the human lands over some grievance or other.   Be careful. Brother Galfen hates that I work to bring back things that he helped to erase, and Brother Jaedien can do even more than I did. It's hard to say how Sister Temira would react... alone, you might be able to reason with her, and my name might help - but when things trigger her Hatred and rage, she doesn't hesitate to leave devastation, grief and sorrow in her wake.   Oh, one other note -   The place you need to take him... if he's summer, you'll never make it there in time. You have three choices - 1) Let him sleep in the Northern Grove. 2) Take him back to Dreamfall and allow him to become a Fae of Day and Night - it's probably the best option. 3) Since you're going to the Eldritch spirits, you may be able to obtain the Water of Life - mix ten millilitres of that with twenty millilitres of grove tree sap, and five millilitres of a fae of a *different season* and you can force a change to a specific season - I don't recommend the last one, the experience is a bit shallower than anyone would get by sleeping, but it will keep a fae from dying because they couldn't reach their grove.