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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kavyk" data-source="post: 1358954" data-attributes="member: 16105">When the elves die, Eilil is saddened, but at the same time happy to have them with him, watching over the others. For now, he will make these first elves to pass away into his Watchers-from-Above. He sends them to the far limits of his influence, so that they may warn of approaching danger. He also gives them the ability to turn normal flames blue as a sign of this warning, then he whispers this in the hearts of his magic-users so that they might inform the tribe. A blue flame means danger. In time, he will find something more permanent to be done with these elven souls, but for the moment, it is best if they continue to help the tribe, their friends & family. He will tell them such, as he does not like to withhold information. The new leader, Daradel, deserves a visit from Eilil, so Eilil appears to him as a mote of brilliant light. "You have done well, young leader of the Radu. My blessings are yours for this expedition to the great ocean that you propose. Send one who speaks for me and I will watch and guide them. But first, there is something else to be done." Eilil explains to Daradel as to the others in a dream.That same night, Eilil sends a similar dream to all of the speakers in which they see elves riding on the backs of herd beasts. [I think that horses are native to this type of climate, but I could be wrong. But then, again, they could learn to ride elk as well. Eilil doesn't specify which herd beast, though in the vision, it is sleek, unlike bison and cattle.] Eilil tells them that they should weave nets, as they used in fishing, but larger, to throw down on top of these creatures from above. Then a dozen strong hunters should haul the beast alive back to camp, where a large wooden palisade has been erected, so that the animals cannot escape. Eilil instructs Daradel to lead this foray himself.When the hunters go out as he expects they will, Eilil will accompany them in spirit. When the animal is captured, distressed, Eilil will send soothing feelings to it and explain to its primitive mind that the people are going to be good to it and feed it, that they will take care of it, in exchange for its service, ie. hauling a large cart, or allowing one of the strange creatures to ride its back. But he makes sure the animal knows they are not predators.Once they have an animal with which to practice, Eilil allows Daradel to send his expedition. For the first time, Eilil finds that he has to split his attention[how well he does it is up to you]. He sends Alade, his chief Watcher, with the expedition, with instructions to summon him immediately should anything befall them. Otherwise, Eili keeps watch over them at night, or splits his attention evenly between the animal-domesticating attempts and the expedition if he is able.Since he has discovered a new magic, different from the illusions of the Speakers, he will seek the most empathic soul in the village and show s/he might help the animal to feel less distressed by sending calming thoughts and drawing on the power of his/her heart. If this is successful, then he will seek out a few more of them and do the same.[The expedition might need to be micro-managed, but we'll see <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />]</blockquote>

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