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Haelfinan
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The oldest warm-blooded race on the planet, the Haelfinan (ALE-fin-on) are a long
lived and mystical race of mercurial passions and powerful Magic. The Haelfinan
are responsible for the creation of almost all the other sentient warm-blooded races
residing in the world, and many of the non-sentient ones as well.
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PROGENITORS
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The Haelfinan Willcrafters created many of the other races that populate the World
of San'Dora many millennia in the past as servitor races
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VAR
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The first and most successful servitor race was the Var, created to mine and smelt
metal items for the iron allergic Haelfinan. The Var served ably and well for millennia,
but began to resent their status and eventually rebelled.
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CYMPYION
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The Var and the Haelfinan fought for millennia, and the Var nearly wiped the Haelfinan
from the planet. The Haelfinan made many more servitor races over the next several
millennia in an effort to combat the doughty Var such as the Hurgur and the Vorshek,
as well as non-humanoid creatures, but many of those races failed or turned on the
Haelfinan as well, subverted by the Var.
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HUMANS
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Eventually the Haelfinan created Humans as a last ditch effort to make a race that
could defeat the Var. They made Humans to be short lived, fast developing, and capable
of learning new things quickly. Initially the Humans turned the tide against the
Var, but they too soon rejected rule by the Haelfinan and many joined the cause
of the Var.
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FALL OF THE HAELFINAN
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The combination of the mighty but relatively few Var and the multitudinous
fast-breeding Humans was the downfall of the Haelfinan. In a long, bloody war of
attrition the Haelfinan were pushed off the continent, forced to hide in the remotest
of regions or flee across large bodies of water to places the Var and Humans could
not reach them.
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Thus the Haelfinan strongly dislike the Var and most Humans, who they believe to
be treacherous creatures that dared to bite the hands of their own creators. For
their part the Var believe the Haelfinan to be cruel, selfish, and heartless.
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In the modern day most Humans do not believe that they were created by the Haelfinan,
and in fact in some places distant from any surviving contact with them the memory
of the Haelfinan has either faded completely from their awareness or are thought
to be legendary. In other places some groups of Humans still war with the Haelfinan.
On the other hand some Humans, collectively called the Eld-folk, remained loyal
to the Haelfinan in antiquity and have maintained a relationship with them into
the modern day.
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MAGIC
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Haelfinan are innately magical beings, and all have the propensity to use a powerful
form of magic known as
Aeldenaren inherent to them. Haelfinan that pursue their Aeldenaren Gifts
are known as Willcrafters; the greatest Willcrafters are counted among the most
powerful beings in the world.
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NOTE: In the World of San'Dora Aeldenaren is synonymous with Haelfinan heritage;
only those with such heritage can use the Magic System.
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