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Aduialendorlia
Unseelie Faerie Princess

(Note: Aduial often speaks in double words due to an odd faerie quirk.)

The dusky shades of twilight falls upon the faerie forest. About you the trees are gnarled and as barren as autumn. Dark toadstools grow in circles where dark faeries play. From the shadows of the darkening forest the malicious eyes of goblins gleam.

This is the realm of Aduialendorlia the Unseelie faerie draik princess. From the growing darkness she emerges, her lavender wings fluttering, her markings mimicing the shades of the sky upon white. She is small in size, no larger then your average housecat. Her indigo eyes regard you inquisitively.

Suilad, greetings. the princess adresses you with a voice like tiny chiming bells. I am impresively impressed, you have entered my realm wilingly and with no fear. Are you here for the stories perchance, one of the curiously curious who wish to know about myself and my sisterly sister? Ah, yes, please take a seat upon the grass and I shall regale you with our tale.

~*~

My sister Aara and I are twins, two draiks grown and hatched from the same egg. But while my flames are of the darkly dusk, hers are of the brightly bright dawn. Night and Day, Chaos and Order, Unseelie and Seelie. We were similar yet different the moment we hatched.

The soothsayers said that we were complimenting opposties. I was destined to be Unseelie, while my sister would forever be my opposite in many ways.

For those who are not in the know, let me describe 'seelie' and 'unseelie'.
The basically basics is that they are the terms for the ancient faerie courts of 'light' and 'dark'. Not to be confused with 'good' and 'evil'. For there are stilly meanly mean Seelie, and kindly kind Unseelie.

~*~

Let me give you the basics of the two faerie courts.

The Unseelie faerie fey are the creatures of darkness, winter and night. Breakers of stagnant traditions, bringers of chaos and much needed change.

The Seelie are the faeries of light, summer and daytime. They cling to old traditions, outdated oaths, and cherish mortals (who should be the playthings of the faeries!).

The two courts are eternal rivals. Together they represent all that is light and dark, good and evil, honorable and chaotic in life.

Traditionally the Unseelie faeries rule from the darker months of Samhain (October 31rst) until the spring of Beltaine (May 1rst). It is obviously obvious that the Seelie rules the other half of the year.

~*~

I cannot put this into goodly good words, but I adore my twin more then anything else that I can think of. We are like one soul, a split spirit in two bodies.
But it was quickly quick that I noticed how different the two of us were.

Aara was always slow to begin mischief, but I could easily easy talk her into causing it with me. But it was the day that I nearly drowned my sister with a prank, and she didn't find it funnily funny. That was the moment I began to notice something was amiss.

Sometime later I was able to persuade my sister to have an adventure with me away from our parents.
We were gone for months.
When we returned I was thrilled to know that they were terrified, and searched for us daily. But knowing that she did wrong, well it made Aara sadly sad... and she cried.

If you can pin-point a moment, that was the very day that I was positive that we were not alike.

Yet nothing could have prepared me for what was to happen to us next.

~*~

It was the Beltaine celebration of May Day, a Seelie celebration. The mood was airy and light, and even my darker moods were swayed by the festive festivities.

Aara and I had curiously followed our parents as they walked alone with the fading of the sunlight. Sitting on a branch we whispered to each other, simply happy to be out and playing. We never knew what hit us.

I awoke with a magical golden collar around my neck, held tight by a magically magical thin leash of golden chain. About me was a gilded cage of gold, and my sister was chained much the same across from me.

An Unseelie Sidhe (elven) woman placed a dark cloth over my sister's cage and spirited her off into the night. I wept piteously until the tears could flow no longer.

~*~

I soon found myself the new pet of an Unseelie Queen, the very woman I had first seen after my capture. For the longest time I would nip and bite at her fingers if she drew near me. Hissing and spiting I would warn her away, and threaten her to return my sister. The Queen used both pain and denial to slowly win me over. Only by obeying could I eat or sleep. It wasn't long before I willingly sat upon my mistress's shoulder as a favored pet.

I had lost track of time and am unsurely sure if it was weeks, months or even years before I was able to see my sweet twin once again.

	The Queen had taken me on a ride, 'for a surprise' she had told me. I thought that my heart would break my chest when I saw her! At a secluded cottage, upon the shoulder of a Seelie King was my nieve, wonderful twin sister!

It was then that I learned of the secretive secret. The King and Queen each had a realm in the same land, and were at war, but they loved each other dearly. So secretly they would meet at this cottage.
Aara was a gift to the King from my mistress. It was that night we decided to work hardly hard to bring them together happily, even if it took us years and years.

~*~

Again, time did not seem to pass by normaly in that faerie realm. So again I am not surely sure how long it had been before Aara remembered the pendants.

You see, our Queen Mother had a powerfuly powerful amulet that she kept. We had found it once before she took it from our hands and hid it away.
The amulet was shaped like a crystal teardrop, and split down the center into two half crystals. Each was it's own pendant, one Seelie, and the other Unseelie. Together it was called the Tear of Dana, and could work strong magikal magiks.

For a longly long time I befriended one of the lowly goblins that lived in my mistress's castle. There was a portal to the mortal realm that opened only on specialy special days to faeries. On Mabon (September 21rst) I sent him with instructions to find my parent's castle, seek the stone, and bring it to me. I'm still surprised that he actually succeeded!

Aara's light faerie had returned with her half of the stone... our plan would finally be set into motion.

~*~

I should tell you that by this time I had aged quite a bit. I only knew that time had passed as I found myself growing and maturing.

During my time spent with the Unseelie Queen she taught me faerie sorcery. I quickly quick learned to harness enchantments and faerie glamours. As Aara suggested I would secretly practice my charms, learning to open the mind of another to suggestions. Hopefully at our master's next meeting, our plan would work.

During the dark of the night as our master's slept in the cabin my sister and I spent the night weaving our spell and charm. Our amulets pulsed with faerie glows as we whispered suggestions into the tapered ears of the royal sidhe. Content that come the dawn they would finally resolve a peace between them we spoke of another dire issue.

We could not risk another kidnapping or faerie raide brought into our home kingdom, where we belonged. Darkly we plotted to use the necklaces to collapse the portal, forever sealing the King and Queen away from the land of our birth.

~*~

Suffice it to say, our plan worked. Soon after the King and Queen were wed, agreeing to again follow the old tradition of trading rulership for half a year to the other.
Our golden collars were removed, we were offered our freedom, and tears of joy streamed from our eyes.

It was on Samhain night when we again slipped away, ready for the portal to open for what would be the last time.

~*~

How does the saying go? Something aboutthe best laid plans of mice and men often go awry. That little snitch of a goblin had told the Queen of our plan, and we found time to be of the essence.

It was a race for the portal, so that we could arrive just moments before the rulership passed from Seelie to Unseelie.. so my sister could actually use it to return home.
The hoofbeats of the Queen's enterage could be heard as we clasped hands and cast our spell, making the portal begin to fade like watercolours that were left out in the rain.

If it wasn't for the timely rescue of Aara's former master, I would not be here today telling you this story.

The portal was nearly gone before the rulership turned to Unseelie, and I dove through.. returning to a land that I had not seen for what felt like many decades.

~*~

So that is our story. I would like to say that we lived happily ever after, but now more then ever I realise how differently different I am from my family. I have changed too much, and soon I believe that I shall find a place to suit my darkly dark unseelie nature.

~*~

About Aduial

Aduial is an unseelie faerie draik. She is 'dark', selfish and rather spiteful, but not evil (although she likes to lead others to believe that she is crueler then she seems). Yet still there are times where her morals seem 'askew'.
Although still young Aduial has become a very accomplished dark sorceress and likes to wield spells that charm and confuse.
Even with her selfish attitude, and her penchant for wickedness she has a constant soft spot for her seelie twin Aaraendorlia (whom Aduial loves more then even herself).