#sunfire ayuret

[dragon-susceptible]

Heroforge Playtime

I've had a crappy couple of days, I'm just playing on HeroForge instead of writing.

Ayuret touching Elathin's horns and getting him distracted in the wrong direction as she goes to hand him a gift, and Elathin just laughing at her antics because he may be blind but he Knows Her lmao. Ethari gets his sense of humor from both parents.

[dragon-susceptible]

Ethari's Parents

I put Ayuret and Elathin in the compilation of OCs I made a while ago but that was before I remembered the Age Slider that exists on HeroForge, so this is them a bit older (the age they would be in "present" times, around the time of Zym's hatching or after).

Ayuret:

(admittedly, I think most of what changed about Averaa is just her face, as she went from being a soldier to being a village guard more than truly retiring)

Elathin:

Elathin's hair should have more volume than that, based on the other Moonshadow we see, but HeroForge has surprisingly limited braid options. The lines of the tattoos around his eyes should also probably be cleaned up, there'd be less separate ones based on canon styles. Maybe sharp lines like we see under Ram's eyes, with the curved slashes below trailing down between his brows towards the nose? Or with the curved line cutting back more sharply to curve down bisecting his brows.

I think I mentioned this in the other post with them but I'm gonna point it out again because I think it's cute; Ayuret is wearing a necklace with a moonstone in it, which Elathin made for her. Elathin is wearing a necklace of sunstones, which Ayuret gave him as a courting gift. He's also holding a moonstone because I couldn't find like, a wire chain for him to be holding to represent the less forge-based jewelrymaking he does now that he's blind and retired.

[dragon-susceptible]

Moonfam Extended Family Updated

(Different Paths AU - The Different Path Taken fic series)

Ayuret, Ethari's mother, is the oldest of the group. She's a Sunfire soldier who met his father, Elathin, at Moonshadow Market on the edge of the forest and just was immediately taken with him. She's about four years his senior but they were both in their 20s at the time, and after a whirlwind romance of the month or so she knew him before the Market closed, they both went home. She came back the next year with courting gifts, appearing as soon as the market opened. Fortunately for her, Elathin is also a flirt who was very receptive to her advances, and in fact turned the tables on her on multiple occasions. It was pretty obvious early on that he couldn't stand living in the bright lights of Sunfire territory, though, so she moved into Moonshadow Forest with him, where they settled and raised their kids in the village of Hollow Wood, a few days' travel away from the Silvergrove.

They had Averaa, their first child, about the same time Reldaar and Arethis, Runaan's parents, properly met in the Silvergrove. Neither couple is aware of each other at this point. Four years later, they had Ethari. A year later, Arethis and Reldaar got married. Three years after that, they had Runaan.

Ayuret worked as a village guard in Hollow Wood.

Reldaar was a gardener who charmed Arethis, the Silvergrove's most decorated assassin of the time, with sheer kindness and love. His softness drew her in as a comfort, and her sharpness made him feel protected/safe. They didn't really move in the same social circles but ended up hiding out in the same shadowed corner at a village festival and that's how they eventually hit it off and became partners and then spouses. Arethis died when Runaan was 3, because she returned to work after his birth and that's . . . sorta how it goes with assassination. Reldaar never quite got over it.

In contrast, Ayuret and Elathin survived into Ethari's adulthood. When he was 14 and Averaa was 18, she had an accident with heat-being form that made their parents reluctantly decide she needed to at least spend a few years living among other Sunfire elves until she learned better how to control her arcanum, so the ladies of the family left to live in Lux Aurea. There was no hard feelings though, both sides of the family still visited each other and sent letters.

Elathin fell ill when Ethari was 18 and nearly passed away. It was luck and Ethari's connections with some Earthblood healers at Moonshadow Market that saved him, but the illness took his sight. He sees light and shadow and that's about it, now. He and Ayuret actually took it as a boon - now they live in a Sunfire village near the outskirts of the kingdom together, a compromise between their original homes now that the light doesn't bother him as much. Averaa remains living in Lux Aurea - she found she loved the city life after moving there - but she and Ethari both visit their parents when they can.

After his father left Hollow Wood though, Ethari did too, disliking living alone in the house he grew up in, and he moved to the Silvergrove, where he met Runaan in his early 20s, with Runaan being around 18-19. Runaan wasn't exactly subtle and he was an even worse flirt, but Ethari is relentlessly smooth af and thought he was cute flustered. He and Reldaar got along quite well as people, though Reldaar didn't approve of them as a couple.

They knew each other for several years before Ethari brought Runaan to meet his parents and Runaan realized Oh He's Actually Met Ayuret Before, because she took a stint back on the front lines as a soldier after leaving the forest. "Terrifying woman. I didn't dare argue with her." It's the only time Ethari's seen Runaan truly intimidated by someone. Ayuret at home is very different than the stern, uncompromising woman he met in the field though, much warmer and softer this time around. Elathin has some concerns about Runaan's duty but admits he's got no room to speak, he married a soldier after all. He just reminds Ethari there's always a chance their partners won't come home, and to be prepared for it. Very prone to making blind jokes. So sensitive to light that with how bright Ayuret keeps their home, he tends to be able to navigate from room to room just fine, and he's learned their yard and a short ways around the house very well; he mostly needs help when they actually go to markets or places that change a lot or have crowds. At this point both of them are pretty much homebodies though.

All of Ethari's family adore Rayla, though they only really got to know her well after her parents left her with Ruthari. Ayuret regularly bites back calling Rayla her granddaughter. Averaa has no such qualms about calling Rayla her little niece, despite the way it makes her brother flinch and Rayla roll her eyes. Elathin keeps his mouth shut because he understands the position Ruthari are in better, but he's sympathetic to it too, and treats Rayla with as much love as an official grandchild even though he can't say it.

(It took some relearning for him to resume work after losing his sight, and his crafts are more tactile than they used to be, with higher reliefs in the art so that he can properly picture them - but he's back in the business of jewellery making now. He just relies on Ayuret to get him materials more, and does more wire bending than direct forging.)

Ayuret thoroughly approves of Runaan, and would have gotten along well with Arethis (probably did once or twice, though she didn't know who Arethis would become to her at the time and may not know it's the same woman). She and Reldaar have a bit of a rocky relationship, because Reldaar doesn't approve of their sons' match, and she strongly does. Elathin mediates a bit, somewhat understanding Reldaar's position though he disagrees with it. Ultimately Ayuret and Elathin are the only ones who are significantly in Rayla's life. Ayuret's largely frustrated because she genuinely thinks she would get along very well with Reldaar, it was just that they ended up waspish with each other whenever their sons' relationship came up. And then he went and wandered into the forest and they never got to resolve things. Elathin is less bothered by it, mostly just grieving sympathetically for how much pain Reldaar must have been living with to give up on seeing his son married.

(yes, I originally wrote in that Ethari's parents were dead too. I've decided to retcon it because TDP kills too many parents anyways, I've realized there isn't a single confirmed grandparent in the saga, so I've decided to change that.)

@lithuiwen2016, tagging for the lore post you were looking forward to!