Five families...
Wayfarer, Highbourne, Smith, Farseer, and Cole.
Five Curses...
The Wayfarers who murdered the whale children shall pay penance with their children. Undines shall be your kin and kind, longing for the water, but destined to die upon it.
The Highbournes who killed so many of the dragons shall pay penance with their children. Sylphs shall your kin and kind be, take to the air and never return.
The Smiths who burned the earth to ash shall pay penance with their children. Salama ... more »

Five families...
Wayfarer, Highbourne, Smith, Farseer, and Cole.
Five Curses...
The Wayfarers who murdered the whale children shall pay penance with their children. Undines shall be your kin and kind, longing for the water, but destined to die upon it.
The Highbournes who killed so many of the dragons shall pay penance with their children. Sylphs shall your kin and kind be, take to the air and never return.
The Smiths who burned the earth to ash shall pay penance with their children. Salamanders shall your kin and kind be, stoking the flames of fate into fury.
The Coles who took the earth and ripped her surface down shall pay penance with their children. Fey shall your kin and kind be, their hearts of stone and cold beauty.
And the Farseers who betrayed them all shall pay penance with their children. Mistyks shall be your kin and kind, future now in their always open eyes.
These are your curses, these are your banes. Be wary, be vigilant. For in the future, those cursed Fate shall take.


The Wayfarers hunted whales during the great need for their precious oil. But greed and pride were their doom.
Nariena Wayfarer knows never to enter the water of the ocean or river on lessons beaten into her by her family. But curiousity and dares do her in. And the Undine curse strikes...  Less