Arfiel

Arfiel

The first of Sha’nin’s siblings to hatch after her was her brother, Arfiel. She sensed his presence, sought him out, helped him learn everything she could. Many things he learned on his own just as she had, and although they have much in common where strength in magical ability is concerned, they found that he differs in size, shape, and color, and his special talents are vastly different. His is the Dominion of Life Energy, all which moves and grows and lives. Not to manipulate it for petty amusements or to constantly interfere in the trifling matters of the everyday lives of individual beings, but to be aware of all Life Energy, of all Life and all lives in a way that no other being could be capable of; to watch them all dance in and out and around each other, and truly see when anything might be simultaneously amiss in a large number of lives all together. To sense when significant changes occur, whether on a large scale or a small one.

Though he can be harsh on occasion like almost any Avesri, Arfiel has a great capacity for compassion and empathy - and in spite of having spent many long ages looking away from the world, when he has looked back upon Bennuma he has often been more likely to go among its inhabitants, show himself, and talk to them, than most other Avesri. Notably, it cannot be said that any Avesri have gone among the inhabitants of Bennuma in their true form, more than he. Many animal species feel a kinship with him, and he is generally more approachable to the peoples of the world.

For his dwelling, Arfiel chose the other moon of Bennuma, the one with life on it, the one with growing things: the Green Moon, Erland. Erland that is also called the WatchMoon because of Arfiel having chosen it for a residence; for it is said that in the first ages of the world, before the various races of peoples and creatures came to be the way that we know them to be now, Arfiel had misgivings about the safety of the world and he watched for danger, concerned that our world of Bennuma might be threatened from without. In a way, this was true; and in another way, it was not. He was right to be concerned, but he did not know what to look for. Yet he sensed something that no other did, and because of it he took up watching from the Green Moon, looking outward and waiting for sign of some danger that he could take action against.