Daenath was head of the Circle of Light on Eternium's 4th Realm - Aerium.

Other members of the Circle were ;- Rarebran, Orston and Belvard.

Danae is no normal child; her origins are complex and require explanation.

Events leading to Danae's birth

Tess Hardy, brilliant young enchanter and founding member of the Sisterhood of Magic finds the resurrection vault of a powerful enchanter called Marvek of the Pentacle. Interfering with the vaults magic, she accidentally triggers Marvek's ritual and gains the Wizard's entire knowledge and memories.

Tess later unearths the Ode - a strange four foot high and three foot wide oval crystal. Experimenting with it, Tess discovers it has a similar capacity to the human mind and hatches a plot to teach it. Her exploits lead to an artificial intelligence.

The Lady Mercy enters inside the Ode and teaches it. The Ode's intelligence reaches a point where with Mercy's help, consciousness is nearly attained. One day the Ode transforms itself into a beautiful but very naive girl who chooses the name Hollis.

Hollis has Mercy's power of sorcery, but to a much larger degree. Her mind is so pure and powerful that Mercy immediately begins training it in case the young girl hurts someone.

As Hollis becomes more real, she realizes her existence cannot go on forever as the Ode is flawed. She also realizes that she is the sum of Mercy and Tess' parts, containing someone else's memories and personality traits. What she desires is to create something real, with real memories and a real soul.

Hollis becomes an invaluable asset to the Resistance in standing against the Wraiths and Palasdine empire. She comes to the attention of the Eldar, who persuade her to join them on Mount Eldahar. Sharing Mercy's loyalty to the Eldar but also her loyalty to free will, Hollis decides that if she must join the Eldar, he child will not.

She enters her imagination and recreates herself as a man with awesome mental powers like her own. Taking the man's seed and storing it, she then recreates herself as a girl again and conceives a child - using detailed information she has stolen from Eldar Quiverin's mind. She gives birth to Danae Mercy Celeste inside of a Planal Key belong to the Sorcerer Pendragon. In this secret place, outside of the normal world, Hollis can break laws and rules without the Eldar knowing.

When Danae was born, she still didn't have a soul or spirit, but the World's imagination filled in the blanks, giving Danae a piece of unclaimed soul so that she could exist by its laws.

Danae Mercy Celeste, Third greatest mind to ever exist in Eldahar (Orion, Baphomet) enters the world.

Mental strength = 108 (10 times stronger than Mercy)
Despite her mental strength, Hollis is relatively unskilled mentally. Her raw strength does give some advantages though - such as mass teleportation and large area effect creation !

See Mental Powers.

At nine months, Danae coerced three Eldar into doing what she wanted, showing what pure mental strength can do... with a mind like a cosmic vice, she can and does do whatever she wants.

Deemed by the world to be Orion's daughter, Danae has a great destiny ahead of her as the Greatest Sorceress on Eldahar, especially after the Evermore war when the Eldar, Law and Chaos have all fallen under North's spell and left Eldahar untended.

Grand Master in all Functions, 

Orion's plan
After the Cataclysm and two hundred years of mourning, Orion decided enough was enough. Rather than obliterate all the lesser races (as that wasn't his style) he instead decided the only way to proceed was to speed up their evolution. If each race attained mental maturity then they would exist together in Harmony and perfect balance (just like him - the living embodiment of balance between the Light and Dark). To do this he would have to separate each race and creed, then guide them individually towards perfection; a long term plan that would require constant monitoring and guidance. What Orion needed was help (and not of the Qual kind, because they still hated humans and especially Dragons). He needed beings that would be as dedicated as he; beings that unlike the Eldar Qual, were able to embrace the World and its spirit.

In the year 198 Orion the Eternal (using research done by Mekailo Khazarad of Enor) created three sets of Soul Stones - modeled after the Heartstone's of Dragon Kind and the Heartstone of Eldahar itself. Each type of Soul Stone differed from the next, designed to hold the spirits of three types of beings who would serve as the Champions of his Great Plan.
 

The Eshwin / Black Elves

Designed by Orion to be the Guardians of the "lesser races", the Eshwin were created and mentally engineered  by Orion to be perfect beings at one with the World and its Heart. Instilled with a great purpose - the preservation of life on Eldahar, the Eshwin were to be Orion's greatest triumph and eventually supersede the Qual (whom Orion now saw as flawed beings of a dying race).

However, Orion's plan went awry in 202 when Eskanu killed his Draconian ally Baphomet and sought dominion over Eldahar's Heart. Knowing everything he had sought to create would be destroyed in an instant if Eskanu came to power, Orion sacrificed himself so that his children might have a chance at existence.

Unfortunately Eskanu still managed to corrupt Orion's plan and poison some of the manufactured Soul stones. The Eshwin - closest to the Heartstone of the World and Orion's essence were changed by Orion's deed, taking on the semblance of Orion's dark half. Finding themselves hunted and despised by the Qual (who saw them as abominations created in their own image) the Eshwin were forced to flee into the World and assume guerilla warfare against Mount Eldahar whilst trying to piece together what had become of their creator.
 
 

The Drai'ma'ke "Dark Elves"

Unlike the Eshwin, Orion had not had time to give the 122 Drai'ma'ke stones flesh. Designed to be the companions and followers of the Eshwin, the Drai'ma'ke were at the time, nothing more than a collection of smooth pebbles containing blank minds, spirits and souls.

The Eshwin found they could speak to each of their 12 Companions by holding the stones to their foreheads. In this way the Eshwin taught the stone-bound Drai'ma'ke about the World, raising them like children.

The Eshwin (now referred to as Black Elves by the Qual and their allies) labored over the Drai'ma'ke stones for many years. Then in 282 Benel Joshu managed to capture a black skinned Drynn living in the Northern wastes and transplant a stone into the being's chest. Using pure energy (lightning) and a bit of luck, Benel managed to unlock the smooth Soul Stone and unleash its soul into the body. So did the first Drai'ma'ke awaken to the World.

After that the Eshwin rounded up another 121 Drynn for the Drai'ma'ke to possess, giving "birth" to the what people would call the "Dark Elves." (Note - The Drynn population wasn't high to start with. After this little escapade the Drynn were heavily outnumbered by the other 11 Elven Houses and not very fond the Eshwin.) In later years, after a Drai'ma'ke's possessed body died, the Black Elves found it increasingly difficult to locate another Drynn to act as host. Partly due to dwindling numbers and partly due to the Drynn's new found skill at hiding, the Eshwin were forced to use other Elven bodies. This provoked retaliation from the other elven Houses and began a very long, protracted cold war against the Eshwin and their children.

Over the years the Eldar managed to cut out and lock away a lot of the Dark Elf Soul Stones. The Drai'ma'ke below represent the 53 "free" Dark Elves circa 2600.
 

The Ûnrashaùwan "Unfinished ones" / Spirits of Orion
In 202, Eskanu succeeded in damaging 12 of the Soul Stones and twisting their souls with her evil aura. This spawned the Ûnrashaùwan or "Unfinished ones" - 12 disembodied souls of such hate, maliciousness and evil that the Astral Plane shuddered upon their release.

To begin with the Ûnrashaùwan were just like the Drai'ma'ke, blank minds and souls (like children). But in 202 they seeped out of their Soul Stones and arose onto the Astral Plane, there to float for hundreds of years.

Over these centuries they floated as giant clouds of spiritual matter, learning from the thoughts and prayers of the living. The Black Elves managed to contact and teach them some things but even they could not tame the insanity of Eskanu that had poisoned their very souls to the core.

Immortal and virtually indestructible, the Ûnrashaùwan could shrink to an inch across or expand to several miles, their substance comprised of spiritual particles.

The Spirits of Orion are very loud but don't cause that much damage to the physical plane. At the most they can cause small bruises, cuts or throw stones. They CAN scream abuse and hurl insults (which they frequently do). Many of their comments are imaginative and so shocking as to give priests minor heart attacks.

Perverse, completely evil, insane and twisted, the Spirits of Orion give Orion a very bad name (thanks to Eskanu's influence).

Main powers
 

Post 2600

The main races of Daydark are Human and Fey Folk (elves). (True)
The Fey are divided by two families and forests; Mythisin and Lindair. (True)
Only the Fey may eat fish, as this was decreed by the God Aldar. (True)
The fey cannot mate with humans. (False)
The last great war , The Evermore War, was 15 years ago. It lasted 1 year. (True)
There are 5 great lands, each divided into smaller lands. (True)
The 5 great lands are currently called Mor, Midgar, Daydark, Whailin & Aegis. (True)
On Rising day, all those who were properly buried, rise to Elondil. (True)
Any disturbed grave will damn the robber to be haunted for a year. (True)
All the dead are judged by Elondil’s door. Only the worthy may enter. (True)
The unworthy are left in the cold, or cast down to Daig. (True)
There is no monetary system or written language, only barter and pûkel sticks. (True)
The people of Whailin are mostly shepherds. (True)
Any completely white animal is sacred to Lond and forbidden to be slain. (True)
Horses are sacred to Cairis & the Wise. Only the Peacebringer may also ride. (True)
Every Mid-winter, the people of Doom retreat into a cave called the Winter Hall. (True)
Every Elder-Winter, the people retire into larger caverns under some of the Citadels. (True)
Every Elder-Winter, certain common people transform into the Burning-Host. (True)
The Burning-Host walk the surface when no-one else can. (True)
It is impossible for a Kori to be anything other than Kori. (False)
Kori are a religious social class in Doom. Kori may only live with and marry other Kori. (True)
Kori know the rites and litanies of the Gods. Common-people do not learn about Gods. (True)
Every village has a Common Elder and a Kori Elder. (True)
Only Kori may enter a Kori building. (True)
Only Kori may touch the dead and eat the flesh of strange animals. (True)The men of Whailin are all better looking than those of Doom. (False)
The White Dwarves of Whailin, eat the hearts of their dead parents. (True)
Spirits hate moonlight and sunlight. (True)
Only Kori may speak the names of the Lords of Mordark. (True)
The Lords of Mordark have been put to sleep by Kyth’s breath. (False)
At 13, every girl is blessed by Shema. At 15, every boy becomes a man. (True)
Only a descendant of the First Lords may become a Lord. (False)
Kori cannot become Lords, or rule in anyway. (True)
Oath-breakers are damned to Daig. But first they are beheaded. (True)
When someone comes of age, they swear allegiance to a Lord or Lady. (True)
A woman’s first child must be offered back to the Gods. The Gods seldom take it. (True)
A man & woman must be pledged and live together for 1 year before bonding. (True)
A man must provide dowry for his daughters. (something worth the daughter’s burden). (True)
When a woman is “under the moon” so to speak, she must move to the women’s house. (True)
Women are forbidden to be champions, soldiers or military leaders. (False)
The main alchoholic drinks are Minter (a form of beer) and Sass (a plant-based wine). (True)
Military structure is divided into Sergeant, Lieutenant, Major, General, Lord. (True)
At the moment, only the dwarven lands have a King. (True)
There have been 3 overlords / Kings of Doom. The last was Thringarn the blind. (False)
Louhri, Ice-Queen of the Orn, is as beautiful as they are ugly. (True)
Louhri has Ice-hounds that run in packs with her Lord’s of the Mark. (True)
The Wise are 6 Priests of Cairis who use magic. (True)
Fey Folk hardly ever leave their woods. (True)
Most Lords have a champion, who runs errands, fights battles and defends the land. (True)
Every land has it’s own flag and seal of identity. (True)
Also see Daydark's Calendar.

The People of

Louhri the Ice-Queen

The Scion of Aegis

North, RIP 1801
Cullyn North, Disappeared end of 2601. Perhaps the greatest hero ever known in the northland. Legendary strength, intelligence and power. Is it any wonder the common people believe he has been deified.

Marigan, RIP 2113. A hero who surrendered himself to an enemy Lord, despite being undefeated in any battle, so that he could save the life of his Lord.

Skuldor – An undead Lord. Upon his death, Lord Lidus swore vengeance upon the 3 Lord’s who betrayed him. Whilst away fighting in Whailin, the 3 Lords moved into his citadel, slept with his wife and two daughters and ate all his food. They executed his common people and stole most of his wealth. To their horror, he actually survived and returned, whereupon they had to kill him themselves before he killed them. Sufficed as to say, all 3 Lord’s and their families eventually suffered at the hands of the undead.

Thek – Craven lord of the mist. Originally one of 13 Wraiths created during a magic ritual from the Spirit Arghaster. These 13 human beings were eventually hunted down and destroyed by the Wise.

Cullyn North, missing in Mordark end of 2601
Hero of the Evermore War. Born in village of Umberlee, 
Doomwaith in 2576, month of Sheren. Two sisters, Bria (-6) and Circea (-6)
Cullyn became associated with The Dragon King; adopting the Black Dragon as his symbol.

Red, adopted daughter of Ischandi.
 

Sacaster the DragonHawk; aka Casan Pendragon. A powerful human 
sorcerer / spiritualist. The father of Pendragon of the Pentacle. 

Astra, Handmaiden of Louhri
Kris of Mekley
Dunkan Spitz - heroic renegade dwarf.
Champion Yan of Doomwaith, RIP in Aegis when he fell from a wall
Urn of Shard
Champion Diveste of Tumark
Master Toby, fey of Vulnir. Survived 7 weeks fighting the Mormen 
and 5 weeks buried in rubble.
Lord E-de-kel of Ewelay
Tirisarn of the Staff – Fey mystic at Mythisin.

Blessed of Loren
Elbar
Sethren
Roreth
Daynen
Lukus
Annadar
Rothwyn, 

Calath, Lord of the Cairn – wielder of Menesteen. A skeleton Champion beneath Citadel Karnath.
Brodwin, Last Daughter of Shema.
Tinagion Alfar, Aegis Fey archer.
Saintaira, Witch of the Worsted Heath.
Saint Aira, legendary holy woman of Aegis, her whereabouts unknown
Cantoninus, Lord of the Burning Host, Chief Spirit of Cairis
Gelt, The ManFang
Myka Anchael, Prince of Lindair
Cymbalin the PeaceBringer
Bria and Circea, Cullyn North's sisters
Uwren, mage at Vulnir
Thek, Craven Lord of the Mist, Mist Wraith, 
Hanna of Gaea
Silwen, The Sister of the Ark
Champion Alac of Foeskel
Skoe, King of the Ice and the WinterHost
Vathna Gan, Skoe's most vicious Major in the Winter War

Minantias, Lord of Mordark – formally Minastion the Wise. His corruption by Chaos caused Ischandi great anguish, but also served to enlighten the Anu to Chaos’ power. 

Meaning "Holy One" in Suraanese. Name given to the Head of religion of Wan - The Doman is reborn again and again, possessing the same soul; a soul close to Heaven in perfection.

See High Doman Gray.

Male, 26 yrs old, born in Absen - a village on the SE coast of Shadow. One brother Malak, one sister Angelica. Actually half Yarilian in blood, Drake's father was a Yarilian sea captain called Apone who landed to trade. Apone was eventually sacrificed to the gods of Shadow when Drake was only 4. Drake believes the gods can steal a man's soul. He is quite fearful of them and priests etc. A rogue, scoundrel, etc, Drake nevertheless has a pure heart and is too good for his own good, literally.

Drastus Kol and his brother Kian both trained together in the army. They quickly rose to join the Elite fighters - called the Shadarain and their competitiveness knew no end. Then they both fell in love with the daughter of a local lord; called Timis. Timis eventually chose Kian over Kol, but only after Kol was dishonourably dismissed from the guard for killing an upstart Captain (Rijel); the Captain's father was a very influential merchent. Kol sank into depression and drink, fighting to make money for booze and food. Kian married Timis and advanced in rank to a Captain of the Shadarain. Kian's marriage however didn't prove all it was cracked up to be and soon Timis was in another's bed. Kian threw himself into work and became widely known as a vicious soldier whilst Kol toured the arena's for drink money.

In 201, sensing Baphomet's death at the talons of Eskanith, Drath attempted to come near his mate Essa (believing Baphomet's wards to have vanished.) However no sooner as he approached, his Heartstone cracked and he "died."
Instead of completely dying Drathelmox transmuted himself onto the ethereal plane.

After hundreds of years without any memory of his prior existence, Drath suddenly remembered who he was and had been. He began moving around the world, searching for a way to regain flesh and heal the crack in his Heartstone. By 2600 he no longer wanted to regain a mere body but instead wanted to evolve into a new and unique Dragon God. Afterall, if Eskanu and Orion could do it, what was to stop him.

Essadalmox
Essa remained under the protection of the Ice Queen Louhri for many years, asleep beneath her Ice Mountain. A large and brutal she-dragon, Essa was renowned for acting without thinking and destroying anything that got in her way.

Drathelmox of the Living Dark
In the year 2601, Drathelmox's Heartstone became infected by the Negative energy of the Living Dark. Whereas other creatures immediately became the equivalent of "priests / priestess'" able to channel the consuming Darkness through their spirit, Drath's spirit remained flawed and fragile due to his damaged Heartstone. What resulted was a schizophrenic spiritual split - one half possessed of the Living Dark, the other not.

During the Campaign of 2600+ people became confused by the appearance of 2 Drathelmox's. One, a small, cunning and sophisticated ethereal white dragon and another immense bloated Dark dragon hell bent on destruction and draining everything in sight.

A group of 7 men, able to dream their souls to different worlds across the Universe. These men (sometimes refered to as The Wise, not to be confused with Ischandi's Wise are essentially Servants of the Cosmic Balance.)

They are;-

Solomon
Rasalon
Syracuse
Cygnus
Jehova
Ansarrah
Telemens

Various types of wine and beer exist in Eldahar. Below are some of the most common and their country of origin...

Also see Herbs of Eldahar.

Dunkan is a dwarven hero from Aradoch who was banished by his King for falling in love with the Queen. Fearing what Dunkan's execution would do for his own popularity, King Keostus sent the hero into the World of men, never to return.

Dunkan keeps to himself and travels alone, but never turns down an opportunity for action. He has a good heart and strong moral code behind his gruff attitude and grumpy countenance.

Appearance
5'0 tall. Bald with a black beard. Scar across his left ear and down neck. CON 19.30

Items
Chani's Axe, +15% +3/+3. Returning ability - can make 3 attacks at a distance before coming back to Dunkan's hand.
Orn Sting, short sword, +5%, +1/+1 (+10% +4/+4 vs Orn only)