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Moonshadow Elves characters 🌙

Here is a list of all the Moonshadow elves characters I found, if I missed someone please let me know.

Agricultural workers:

Biffy (she/her)

Maive (she/her)

Somma (she/her)

Vankan (she/her)

Artisans:

Ethari (he/him)

Perris (he/him)

Assassins:

Andromeda (she/her)

Callisto (he/him)

Eljaal (they/them)

Fayln (she/her)

Pandyne (she/her)

Ram (he/him)

Runaan (he/him)

Rayla (she/her)

Skor (he/him)

Dragonguards:

Lain (he/him)

Tiadrin (she/her)

Mages:

Draylenn (she/her)

Lujanne (she/her)

Tylluan/Feathershawl (they/them)

Others:

Fara

Fentheth (he/him)

Gwenyn (she/her)

Kim'dael (she/her)

Laaner (he/him)

Redfeather (she/her)

Lira (she/her)

Maggs (she/her)

Shiv

Rangers:

Neva

Remmi

Daav

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Moonshadow elves and feathers?

In Tales of Xadia there is a non-binary Moonshadow elf character named Feathershawl and it's sounded like a name they chosen for themselves and not the name they were born with.

In the story about Rayla in Scumport we met a Moonshadow elf who calls herself Redfeather. She mentioned that it's a name she chosen for herself and not her real name.

So, we have two Moonshadow elves who chose a new name for themselves and they chose to include the word 'feather' in their name. So, what their deal with that word?

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Late night thoughts about ghosting.

We don't actually know how far ghosting extends. We've only gotten two examples of a living ghosted elf meeting an elf who ghosted them, and they both happened in the village where the ghost ritual took place. Ethari with Rayla in the show, and Elder Gwenyn of the Gloaming Glade with Feathershawl in ToX.

In both cases, the ghosted elf remained invisible and inaudible to the ones who ghosted them.

Looking closely at other examples doesn't actually tell us much. We don't know for sure whether Rayla ghosted her parents along with the Silvergrove, but if Ethari couldn't get out of ghosting Rayla, then Rayla probably couldn't get out of ghosting her parents, either.

She could see art Callum drew of them, though, and she could see their faces on the coins.

Runaan ghosted his friends, and he could see their faces on the coins too.

There's a common assumption that this is possible because the ghosting spell only works inside the village where the ritual was done. But we don't actually know that for sure. We've never seen a ghoster and ghostee interact in person outside their relevant village.

I've a theory about how ghosting works. It's similar to the way assassins seem to track their targets: they both sense hearts. The powerhouse of the physical body. Not a spirit, not a consciousness, but the manifestation of life itself - one of the things most precious to Moonshadow elves.

If a Moonshadow assassin can learn to track a specific heartbeat for mission reasons, then it can be located for ghost reasons too. Not to track it, but the opposite: to block it out entirely. Their magically innate sense of life will not be able to pick up on that one heart unless the spell is reversed.

There are pros and cons to limiting this effect to a single village, and to making it universal. But I don't see Rayla being able to see her parents in the world beyond life and death as an indication of either option, since she was seeing their souls, not any physical manifestation of them.

All this to say, I do not know if Ethari will be able to see Rayla until the ghosting spell is lifted, no matter where he meets her. If he encounters Callum and Zym outside the Silvergrove before the ghosting is lifted, he may be able to see them. It's extra angsty if not, though - how cruel to forever hide a person from your sight simply for allying with a Ghost for one dance!

I want Ethari to be able to see her and give her the biggest hug ever. But the inherent angst in Runaan looking at Ethari and realizing his husband ghosted their daughter and needs Runaan to pass messages for him is so tasty I want to eat it with my bare hands.

My man is not immune to the horrible consequences of his actions any more than anyone else in this show.

Let 👏 Ethari 👏 fuck👏 up👏

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oooooooh and what if she’s from Ethari’s family?

I mean: gentle/joyous character / skin color / swirlies / purple and rosy clothes / and most of all: magiiiic!!!! 

But BTQ just made me realized that the elf from Hollow wood in Tox could also be feathershawl... (I was so on Eljaal I forgot Feathershawl >.<)

Anyway! I want to know if one of them knows Ethari!!!!

Random theory of the day:

Ethari is from Hollow Wood, the same city as Draylenn

@ tdp theorists, feel free to add to or ask about this; I will elaborate on this theory later after studying 😅

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Tales of Xadia characters-Tylluan/Feathershawl

Name: Tylluan/Feathershawl Pronounce: They/them Race: Moonshadow Elf Living place: Hollow Wood Profession: Mage and former elder Information: Feathershawl is a lanky, tall, gender neutral Moonshadow elf with quiet, grim eyes. They were once one of the elders of Hollow Wood but got exiled and ghosted because they didn't honor an oath and it cost some elves their life. They didn't plan to hurt anyone but they still failed and ashamed to discuss this. Feathershawl wants to rejoin their society and can do anything to achieve it. *They have magical owlfeathers cloak that allows them to floats along the beams of the moonlight during specail phases of the moon.

*They were named Tylluan and chose the name Feathershawl after their exile.

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List of non binary characters in the dragon prince

I just decided to do this list because many people don't know about the other non binary characters besides Kazi and we have seven of them.

Kazi (they/them)-sunfire elf Lamis (she/they)-sunfire elf

Fethearshawl/Tylluan (they/them)-moonshadow elf Eljaal (they/them)-moonshadow elf

Polizi (they/them)-skywing elf Zeph (they/them)-skywing elf The Merciful one-startouched elf Ponmalar (they/them)-evenerian Needa (they/them)-katolian

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angst with a happy ending: meta edition

I don’t have the spoons to make separate theory posts so I’m going to share some stuff that’s been circulating in my head recently. It’s angsty, because my life is angsty. But I cheered myself up at the end and it’s because of you.

Here, have a cut:

The only cishet white guy in TDP is Viren, and he’s a villain. He hates things that are differently excellent, and Runaan, a Magic Gay, embodies that different excellence very well. Unless/until Viren changes his cishet ways, he’s going to remain a villain.

At the same time he was totally getting on his knees for Saleer, who’s been possessed by Aaravos since before the army left Katolis. But, you know, in a homophobic way, except in the Spanish dub.

Claudia probably had to clean up her dad’s mess with his experimentation on Runaan in the dungeon. She saw what her dad was capable of in his angriest moments, and it worried her. She probably settled Runaan with lower chains and a more symmetrical seating position because she was smoothing away evidence of Viren’s frustration and anger, not because she was helping an enemy assassin feel any more comfortable.

Ethari came back to talk to Rayla by the pool after he stalked away angrily because he didn’t want her last moments with family in the Silvergrove to be him abandoning her the way she (apparently) abandoned Runaan. But he still let her leave as a ghost because he’s been angry and mourning for a week and he has trouble being around her without falling back on his own attempts to convince himself that Runaan’s death was her fault, and not Runaan’s or his own. He needs more time to get over that week of denials.

Seems you lose your name when you get ghosted, at least off the tongues of the Moonshadows who ghosted you. Rayla didn’t know she’d been ghosted until she couldn’t see Ethari’s face. But she twitched hard in surprise when he said her name out loud, even though she knew he could see her. And Feathershawl, from the ToX playtest “Lost Oasis,” has dutifully given up their name and is using a nickname instead, because their primary goal is returning to the Moonshadow fold. They’ll abide by all the rules of their ghosting as a sign of their good intentions to return and do better for their community. Which means that Eljaal doesn’t know if they’ve been ghosted or not, and is probably afraid to go home and find out. They must really like their name. I like it, too. Corvus and Eljaal adventures when.

Lotus flower rituals have rules we don’t know about yet. Pools in front of various houses across the Silvergrove must mark houses where assassins live. Which means the tree house really is a house, and not just Ethari’s workshop, which is nice. Apparently it’s more traditional for assassins go out one at a time, as even Eljaal left on a solo mission for their very first kill. So the lotus is for the assassin’s family, to reassure them. Eljaal’s lotus is still floating, no doubt. Just like Rayla’s is for Ethari. The ritual isn’t done until something further signals the end, and either Rayla or Ethari need to do that, and they haven’t. He needed to keep seeing her lotus, even after he ghosted her. And he couldn’t bring himself to fish out Runaan’s sunken lotus and end the ritual because denial ain’t just a river in Egypt. It runs through the Moonshadow Forest, too. If Rayla has returned to the Silvergrove to see Ethari, post TTM, though, there’s every chance that they’ve ended the ritual and have another clue that Runaan isn’t dead--and if he isn’t dead, then neither are Rayla’s parents.

When a Primal Nexus gets corrupted, monsters apparently start showing up. Janai must’ve been a wreck those first few days in Lux Aurea. Viren and Aaravos destroyed her whole world in a Star Touch minute--her sister the queen was murdered, the whole area plunged into darkness, the nexus’s abilities destroyed, citizens getting attacked or fleeing. And her best ally is suddenly a sassy human general? Guys. The bonding. The bonding they must’ve done over those few days amidst utter chaos, destruction, and ruin. That could be a whole book in and of itself. Janai said later that what remained of her forces had come to help defend the Storm Spire. That means the rest of them are likely dead, and Janai had to choose between saving her city and saving all of Xadia. And she chose Xadia. Lux Aurea is going to be overrun without her and her forces there, and they’ll have a steeper uphill battle to reclaim it. But now, Janai has new allies at her back... and one at her side, holding her hand. okay this one didn’t end super angsty, yay

This show is pulling out all the stops, but pulling no punches, with its determination to represent all the good, deep, amazing, complex and beautiful things about diversity. There are no Usuals here. I started this list with a cishet villain. His polar opposite, then, is a queer hero. In the small scale, that opposite is represented by Runaan. Read all you like into the cishet taking out his rage at the queer guy who can’t fight back. It wasn’t written that way by accident.

But their dynamic is visible in far more than merely their dungeon exchanges. Viren’s attitude toward Moonshadow elves is the prevailing one in Katolis because Viren holds a place of authority there, and he gets to talk and make people listen to him. And he’s canonically very persuasive and charismatic when he gives speeches. He knows what The Right Words are.

Meanwhile, Runaan, a quiet Moonshadow elf who likes to keep to himself, hasn’t had the same kind of opportunity to speak as Viren has in the show. He’s literally been silenced because he wouldn’t play along with the cishet plan for world domination. But he’s talking all the same, if you know how to read him.

I know some haven’t trusted that what he’s saying is there, or true. I know some deny he’s saying anything at all, through his character development. And I know it’s hard to look at his half-finished story. It’s hard. If you’re trying to finish it happily, to wish him health and peace and comfort, it’s because you know something of where he’s been, and you wouldn’t wish that on anyone. It’s because you have empathy. And that makes you wonderful.

I know our lives move fast, even during a pandemic. But please take a second to know how much I appreciate every one of you who looks at any (yes any) TDP character with empathy and wishes them a happy ending somehow. If you identify with a character in distress, you know what empathy is, and you can share that with actual humans around you and make the world a better place just by being yourself.

This show set out to make the world a better place in a hundred little ways, and it’s succeeding because of you. Have a happy Bait, and thank you for being part of this fandom with me.

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I’m curious to see how Tales of Xadia balances the mage character archetypes. Like, I imagine that Sky mages have world-class agility (the attribute scale goes up to 12) while Earth mages have world-class strength. But neither one would have a martial prowess of a battle mage, which would specifically be a Sun mage thing. But then Sun mages have limited agility and strength in turn.

Should be interesting.

The fandom keeps getting surprised, it seems, because we keep trying to make everyone monolithic, and then TDP keeps giving us individuals with their own specific personal details. Perhaps it’s time we stopped thinking in archetypes. Tropes are much more fun, anyway, as the chaotic grandchildren that the archetypes have no idea how to control when their parents drop them off.

I don’t know if you remember when much of the fandom kind of assumed that Tinker was a Sunfire elf because he knew how to forge weapons, but that was a headcanon that spread out and lasted quite a while... until an interview that just casually dropped the info that the elf who had made Runaan’s and Rayla’s swords was just another Moonshadow, just like them.

Now we’ve all met Ethari, and he’s very much a Moonshadow elf, fitting into his world and expanding our understanding of it simply by being himself. Lain and Tiadrin expanded our understanding of Moonshadows, too, and now Feathershawl and Eljaal are adding even more info.

Then there are the overlaps, things that are the same in different races. Seems everyone can have a stocky craftsman: Skywings, Sunfires, Moonshadows, they all have one. (and thank you very much btw) So I imagine it’s entirely likely that mages will self-balance with a combination of crossover and individuality, just like the rest of the characters we know so far. Viren is probably similar to every other mage who fights, really. He slings his staff around very nicely, so I imagine Babukar does too.......

In fact, I wonder if having possession of a magic staff is what makes you a battle mage, for all intents and purposes. The elves from the intro pix were certainly ready to throw down. We never saw Ibis swing his staff in battle--or fight without it either--but we all know he’d be a force to be reckoned with with that Sky primal stone in his hands. Though I’m not sure how he’d handle his mage wings and his staff at the same time... he may need to choose. I hope he can make his Manus Pluma Volantis spell kick off faster than when he was showing it to Callum. That would be a time suck during battle.

Now I’m thinking about Lujanne, and how she doesn’t have a staff--that we know of, anyway. She just chills at the Moonhenge and draws runes in the air with her fingers and vibes with her spooky creations.

And I’m thinking about Aaravos, and how fast he could cast. He drew his runes two-handed, for speed. Time is of the essence in battle, and he and Viren kept a decent pace together, since they were basically two halves of a working battle mage in the S2E9 fight.

Also, hmmmm, on the subject of Agility. Winged Skywings will naturally be agile because they travel and think in three dimensions in a way the rest of the elves don’t. We’ve seen Nyx just casually spinning around like it’s entirely subconscious to do so. And if you have a winged mage like Ibis, then yes, I can see him personally being ridiculously agile!

But Rayla’s Moonshadow elf Distinction from ToX has an agility comment as well, which indicates that Moonshadows are, as a group, more agile on average than Skywings, as a group.

Skywing mages don’t necessarily come with wings, and there’s no guarantee they can all master the magewings spell, but practicing their magic means practicing their agility, right? I wonder who would be more agile in battle, then: a Skywing mage whose magic requires agility, or a Moonshadow mage whose heritage grants higher inherent agility and who dances their spells?

You know what, I don’t care who’s better. I want to see them both casting together. They’d both be delightfully amazing and so pretty to watch. Let them be battle mage buddies, please.

Also can they be Ibis and Ethari, because. Because.... they have almost the same markings on their cheeks? Yeah. Yeah, that’s it. Mmhmm.

Okay, Babukar can totally come too, because, and did I mention, BATTLE MAGES.

Please, I will perish of joy watching all these bois sling magic staffs around.

Last note: I gotta admit, I’m genuinely not following you, anon, with why only Sunfire mages could be battle mages, because

what else did you think this Moonshadow dude with the magic staff was standing here for, right alongside the Sunfire battle mage?

Or this Moonshadow, with her own staff, and her own Sunfire mage ally?

Moonshadows and Sunfires are the defenders of Xadia and its borders. They’re at the border together, their symbols are in the books together. I don’t know why the other elven races don’t show up prominently (border)/at all (books). That’s a worldbuilding mystery that I’m eager to understand. But Moonshadows have a martial side to their culture, and that does include defending the border in times of need. And for whatever reason, it’s not something that Skywing mages have been shown doing. Perhaps Skywing mages fight elsewhere than the border due to Reasons?

If you use your magic in battle, you’re a battle mage. Maybe they’re not all bright and flashy, like Babukar undoubtedly is, and that’s okay. They still need to be ready to act swiftly and have a world-class skill set, and I support them all.