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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 6290917" data-attributes="member: 58172">I read the Eddas and the Sagas in the original language. Together, stories and comments here and there flesh out a reasonably comprehensive view of what an Alfr is.An Alfr personifies success, so even other races rely on them for successful outcomes. The Alfr is known for superhuman beauty - which is notably masculine - unlike the beauty of the Greek Nymph which is notably feminine. The Alfr is superlative in magical powers - including charm and mental magic (Seiðr), intuitive sensing and foresight (Spá), healing and protective magic (Galdr), creation of magic items and technologies, summoning otherworldly spirits, weather magic, and so on. They are known for beauty both in physical appearance but also in mental beauty, such as beautiful speech - both in the sense of a beautiful voice and in the sense of appealing word choice and pursuasive logic. They personify accurate advice. They materialize and dematerialize into spirit/wind at will. And so on. They personify cosmic order, winning, skill, luck, fate, destiny, prestige, fame, glamor - success.They are celestial beings who live in the sky, and literally glow daylight, somewhat analogous to mideastern angels, and the terms are often used in similar abstract contexts - such as calling certain people an angel in the sense of a wondrously charming person, or an ‘angel of battle’ in the sense of personifying such ‘lucky’, fateful, skillful, magical, successful outcomes. Likewise, biblical angels are known for masculine beauty.</blockquote>

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