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Aethera name.
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Beyond the arch · A world by Derek Bellerose
Welcome to Aethera.
Every life begins with a thread.
Find where yours belongs.
Seventeen factions. A thousand possibilities. Your story begins here.
Make a little magic
A name. A thread. A beginning.
Start with your name, your Awakening, or simply explore the factions.
Discover your
Which thread
calls to you?
Nine questions. Seventeen factions. Step onto the white Platform, enter the cocoon of light, and follow your instincts toward your own Awakening. Sometimes two threads answer together: a split-thread faerie.
Your name is optional. Your choices are what matter.
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The colors of belonging
Seventeen ways to be you.
Discover their magic, their craft, and their place in the realm.
RoyalsSilver & gold
Royal Thread Sight
Silver and gold mark Aethera’s rare Royals. Every Royal has a first faction, but Royal supersedes it: they hold every thread. Their first faction remains part of their beginning, while their wings shine silver and gold. Their Royal Thread Sight can reveal another person’s past, present, and sometimes glimpses of the future. They stand at the center of the realm’s rule, carrying power that demands a terrible price: royal weaving changes how they experience time. While a Royal lives through a moment, the world around them can race ahead. Every great working costs something of the life they might otherwise have lived.
Fire WeaversEmber
Flame shaped by thread
Fire Weavers reach for ember threads and give flame a shape. A fire can gather in the palm of a hand, held and directed through the weaver’s craft. Their work demands command of a force that moves, consumes, and refuses to stay still. Among Aethera’s factions, theirs is the unmistakable presence of living heat: light kindled, flame guided, and raw fire brought under a deliberate hand.
Food WeaversEmerald
A feast woven into being
Food Weavers turn emerald threads and real ingredients into finished meals, weaving dishes into shape without needing a kitchen. They draw from a shared network of enchanted pantries, supplied across Aethera, where ingredients remain fresh and space seems limitless. In skilled hands, a meal can take form beside the table itself. Their magic feeds the realm, from an everyday supper to a feast worthy of the Royal Family.
Water ShapersTurquoise
Command the shape of water
Water Shapers use turquoise threads to lift, suspend, and guide water into extraordinary forms. A rising wall can be caught in midair and lowered as gently as a stream. Alongside Memory Keepers, they give the past a visible surface in the Memory Pool. Their work also reaches across the realm: the coastal city of Profundis, built with the Liminal, supplies water to much of Aethera.
Memory KeepersLilac
Make the past visible
Memory Keepers preserve the moments that make Aethera what it is. Their lilac threads hold the past so it can be witnessed again, working with Water Shapers to bring remembered events into view through the Memory Pool. They tend the realm’s history and search for knowledge that has slipped out of reach. A rare few can also glimpse specific futures: brief readings of what may lie ahead.
Song WeaversPink
Weave a feeling into the air
Song Weavers take an emotion, gather the threads that match it, and hold it in a form others can experience. Their pink-threaded art lets a room share what the weaver has felt and seen. Music becomes an act of magic, capable of giving a gathering one shared emotional world. From intimate performances to the Awakening Hall, they shape the songs that accompany Aethera’s most important moments.
HealersYellow
Mend the living weave
Healers bring yellow threads to the work of repairing living bodies. They tend wounds, fight illnesses, and care for patients whose recovery may take days of patient weaving. Their craft has limits, and meeting those limits drives new work: alongside the Liminal, they help fit wings of woven light to bodies that cannot fly. A Healer’s power is precise, demanding magic practiced where a life is most vulnerable.
Silk SpinnersChampagne
Fashion woven from magic
Silk Spinners clothe Aethera in champagne threads. They weave garments, fitted designs, and shoes, turning an imagined look into something a fairy can wear. Through enchanted wardrobes, clothing returns to them for cleaning, repair, or replacement, and fresh fashions appear ready for their owners. Within the faction, the Royal Fashion Weavers create the clothing of the Royals and their families. Every outfit begins in someone’s weave.
BuildersBronze
Build beyond ordinary space
Builders use bronze threads to raise and join Aethera’s structures. Their work can connect separate halls into a single vast Citadel or extend seating galleries as a crowd grows. They also create enchanted pantries whose interiors hold far more than their walls should allow. From the rooms of a home to the architecture of a capital, Builders make the places and practical wonders the rest of the realm relies on.
Stone ShapersGray
Stone beneath the weaver’s hand
Stone Shapers are Aethera’s gray-threaded workers of stone. Their craft is the shaping of solid material: the weight, form, and enduring structure of the realm beneath its floating wonders. Where a Builder’s work brings a whole structure together, a Stone Shaper’s focus is the stone itself. This is the faction of patient, exact physical craft, giving lasting form to one of the world’s oldest materials.
Gale RidersElectric blue
Take hold of the wind
Gale Riders work with the electric-blue threads of the high air. Their magic shapes wind into directed currents, strong enough to gather scattered matter into a spinning stream or catch a falling body and carry it safely to the ground. Air becomes something that can be guided, lifted, and turned. Their domain is the moving sky above Aethera, where an invisible force can become the hand that holds you.
LiminalLime green
Invent the impossible
The Liminal weave lime-green threads into Aethera’s technology. In Novenium, their workshops produce moving constructs, holographic receivers, personal shields, and wings of woven light. Their work with Water Shapers helps carry water across the realm in a blink. They can even build an immersive world inside a room, sending its visitors flying through a landscape made of light. This is Aethera’s restless frontier of magical invention.
Truth WeaversWhite
Bring the truth to light
Truth Weavers carry white threads and the difficult work of pursuing what is true. Their place among Aethera’s factions is the examination of claims, questions, and the accounts on which people build their understanding of the realm. A Truth Weaver’s voice is heard in the Council, where even ancient knowledge has gaps. Their work begins where certainty ends: asking what is known, what is assumed, and what still needs to be uncovered.
Time KeepersTeal
Read the marks of time
Time Keepers read temporal signatures through teal threads. By meeting another fairy’s threads with their own, they can detect displacement and track the time cost of powerful weaving. Their expertise reveals when a Royal’s experience of time begins to separate from the world around them. They study the consequences of magic across lifetimes, watching for changes that the person living through them may not yet be able to feel.
Nature ShepherdsForest green
Tend the realm’s living abundance
Nature Shepherds carry forest-green threads and tend the living world that sustains Aethera. Their work reaches from the realm’s growing places into the shared pantries used by Food Weavers, supplying ingredients from across the kingdom. They belong to the part of Aethera that grows, nourishes, and renews itself. Behind the magic of a finished feast is their work among the living sources that make it possible.
WanderersSapphire
Cross the boundaries of worlds
Wanderers follow sapphire threads beyond the familiar reaches of Aethera. They travel through the Portal Garden’s passages to other cities and discovered worlds, gathering knowledge from places most fairies will never see. Some return with what they have learned; others keep going. Their journeys connect Aethera to a universe beyond its own skies, where every crossing opens another horizon and no explorer is promised a safe return.
Shadow WalkersDeep purple
Give shadow a tangible form
Shadow Walkers belong to the deep-purple threads of shadow magic. Shadow work can take tangible form: a thread woven into a net, or a hidden interior far grander than its entrance suggests. Its reach extends into making and shelter as well as the things that make darkness dangerous. The faction includes protectors and caretakers, too; in Aethera, a shadow can be the place where someone has kept you safe.
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