Fairywink's Lore
Cosmyral was once a large, powerful fae kingdom known for its long line of powerful potion masters, the royals of the beautiful city. They were loved for their benevolence and their compassion, that love even extending towards the neighboring human kingdom, Moonsia. In the past, fae and humans stayed mostly separate, as humans would often try to subjugate the fae for their powers. However, through many years of effort and many goodwill missions between both kingdoms, Cosmyral and Moonsia brokered peace.
Faewin was born into the royal family of Cosmyral during that time of peace, and was raised with the expectation that she would carry on her family legacy. She would one day become the protector of the Book of the Gardens, a tome filled with the recipes to make five legendary magical potions that were the reason that Cosmyral the powerful kingdom it had become.The potions were capable of providing boons that boosted five different aspects of a person - strength (red), knowledge (yellow), mind (purple), health (blue), and luck (green). The potions provided different benefits to the people that take them, anywhere from changing them completely to just augmenting them a bit. However, the potions were only to be consumed in regulated dosages, as they were considered to be addictive to people who became reliant on them, and an addicted person would do anything to regain those effects.
As part of the peace treaty between humans and fae, Cosmyral gave the human kingdom potions to aid their people, while Moonsia offered to use their military might to protect the otherwise vulnerable fae kingdom from any outside attacks. It was a fair exchange, and both kingdoms profited from the benefits from the trade.When Faewin came of age, she began to study the Book of the Gardens and learn the secrets of potion making. After she mastered all five of the mythical potions, she would be crowned as the book’s guardian, which would task her with the responsibility of protecting the tome from falling into the wrong hands.
However, this proved difficult when a human general, who had been given one of the mythical potions many years prior, learned of the gifts that the other four granted. He became obsessed with gaining the power of all five potions in unlimited quantities, greedily coveting them for himself and for his kingdom and hoping to increase Moonsia’s power among nearby civilizations. In his greed, he rallied the kingdom’s military and launched an assault against Cosmyral - the kingdom that the military had sworn to protect - which didn’t have much of an army to fight back.The royal family - Faewin’s family - decided to try to end the assault peacefully and without risking the lives of their people. They surrendered, offering themselves as proof that the humans had won, under the condition that the rest of the fae would be spared.
Inside, however, Faewin had begun to panic. She had only just begun her duties as the guardian of the tome, and she was already facing a crisis bigger than her mother, and her mother’s mother. If the humans got their hands on the book, it would mean a shift in power so great that the world would never recover. And so, in a desperate move, she threw the Book of the Gardens into the fire beneath her cauldron.It didn’t even cross her mind that in doing so, she had lost the recipes that she had beentasked to memorize and protect.
When the human general finally stormed Faewin’s chambers, he saw the smoldering ashes of the tome he’d broken a peace treaty to obtain. Enraged, he decided to subjugate the kingdom of Cosmyral, citing that they had also broken the peace treaty by destroying the book. He allowed Faewin’s parents to remain leaders of the kingdom, but took her with him as a political prisoner. Even with the book destroyed, he was determined to possess the secrets it held and hoard them for himself.He made a single, near impossible demand.If Faewin could recall the recipes for the five mythical potions, as well as recreate themfor him, he would free Cosmyral.Fearing for her life and for her people, Faewin had no choice but to agree.
The human general and Faewin returned to Moonsia. She was sent to live in a small house that was always guarded, and she was only allowed out with express permission from the general. Upon their arrival, she was paraded around the city with the announcement of Moonsia’s reign over Cosmyral. The general claimed that the fae had been the first to break the peace treaty, and changed the narrative to be that he attacked first due to Faewin burning the tome. To the citizens of Moonsia, many of whom were reliant on the potions that Cosmyral provided them, that single act justified the subjugation of the fae kingdom and the kidnapping of its princess.The only power Faewin was able to keep was her name. Like most fae, the knowledge of her true name held power. If a human was to figure out her true name and call her by it, they would have complete control over her. So, she remained quiet and kept her name to herself, refusing to speak it even under the general’s demands.Unable to find out her true name, the citizens nicknamed her “Fairy.”
Faewin spent her days practicing her potion brewing, often experimenting with new recipes while she could. She was determined to recall the hazy memory of the five potions and
learn how to brew them properly. Not so she could give them to the kingdom of Moonsia, but so she could help fight back and free her people from their own imprisonment.Her ingredients were all from a small garden, hidden away behind an abandoned greenhouse on the outskirts of the kingdom. She stole away to that garden whenever she was allowed out, picking flowers that she hoped would be the core of those potions. Each potion’s core was very, very specific, which meant that many of Faewin’s potions ended up completely different than she had hoped. Some, if taken recklessly, would completely change her being if she was desperate enough to reach for them.
When she wasn’t brewing potions or hiding away in that secret garden, Faewin was trying to win over the humans of Moonsia. Although most citizens wouldn’t talk to her, fearing retribution from the military, they were curious about the fae princess that now lived in their city. Faewin realized this, and so, searched for a way for them to get to know her without having to interact directly with her.It was then that she discovered live streaming as a way to touch as many hearts as possible. She reached out to the humans of Moonsia through a screen, giving them comfort and hope with her kindness and open heart.As she streams now, she believes that the goodwill she’s been building up for the past few years will all pay off. Cosmyral and her people will be free, no matter how long it takes for Faewin to accomplish that goal.