This was our sixth annual Carnival masquerade ball, and it was as lively as ever -- especially when it came to discussing current events. We only awarded two prizes this year as everyone turned out masked and dressed to the nines! Both winners received a mask and a necklace that transforms the wearer's appearance into that of a Dark Elf.
Best Mask: Elysia M'Aire-Snowmane
Best Ensemble: Kayse Thaellian
Alosaka the Consoler
He appears to be a Human of the Tehir tribes.
He is average height. He appears to be very young. He has long-lashed chestnut eyes and nut brown skin. He has short, tousled brown hair worn in an array of tight zigzag braids decorated with midnight blue feathers. He has a delicate face and a small nose.
He has some lines of dark-inked scripture on his wrist, an inked leafing acantha vine crawling across a trellis of slender bones on his arm, and an eclipsed sun and moon tattoo on his arm.
He is in good shape.
He is wearing an expressionless mask, a sun-faded ahmdir blue headscarf sewn with a mosaic of polished copper scales, an ivory white braided cotton strap with a lacquered rosewood biwa embossed with bronze willow trees strapped to it slung over his shoulder, some soft white linen robes, and some ahmdir blue ankle-wraps of copper-shot linen.
Lady Arenglae Amalathia Illistim
She appears to be an Elf.
She is average height and has a lithesome, nimble build. She appears to be of a tender age. She has subtly tilted argent-sheened celestial blue eyes and impeccably radiant lotus white skin. She has very long, silvery arctic white hair tucked into a loose chignon adorned with a sharp-petaled niveous magnolia blossom. She has a mask of sapphire-threaded white vaalin filigree backed by suede covering the upper half of her face, a gently sloped aquiline nose and elongated outwardly curved ears. A subtly strong chin offsets the smooth, soft features gently rounding out her face. She has a slender trace of pale silver ink precisely brushed above her lashes.
Her abdomen is pierced with a tiny lucent blue ghost firefly.
She has a quintet of niello silver teardrops inset with everfrost shards in the upper ridge of her left ear.
She is in good shape.
She is wearing a ten-strand white gold waterfall necklace tapering to a solitary dark cerulean glimaerstone, a deeply plunging gown of pleated argentine blue silk fed through platinum rings across the abdomen, and some ethereal blue silk-threaded brocade slippers raised on vaalin-barbed heels.
Gardener Elysia M'aire-Snowmane the Wealdsinger
She appears to be a Loenthra Elf.
She is tall and has a balletic body. It is difficult to determine her age as a feathered raven mask overlaid in mithglin filigree covers most of her features, though her thick-lashed mossy green eyes can be seen in the eye slits. She has long, softly curling golden hair loosely styled with a sprinkling of iridescent moonstones scattered throughout.
She has a diagonal fall of cream-inked dryad blossoms on her wrist.
Slender vines of mist wend across her exposed skin, the lengths unfurling with ethereal blooms of evening primrose.
She is in good shape.
She is wearing a pair of chandelier earrings of tiered moonglae opal droplets, an intricately woven silver choker suspending droplets of lightless clear glimaerstone, an open-shouldered onyx cendal gown spun with sheer layers of silverworked gossamer, a silver filigree lirveil featuring octagonal skyglass panels, a pearly vaalin talon ring, a lustrous faenor band cradling gilt-suffused arathiel blossoms, and some silver silk dancing slippers with crystal-tipped ribbon laces.
Flickering near Elysia is a diminutive kestrel, its luminous figure composed of pale cinerious energy. Ignoring its surroundings, it preens its feathers in a regal fashion.
Lady Emperia Aurayne Faendryl
She appears to be a Dark Elf.
She is shorter than average. She appears to be extremely young. She has silver-flecked violet eyes and black skin. She has waist length, flowing white hair streaked with silver. She has a delicate face, a small nose and sharp pointed ears.
She is in good shape.
She is wearing a dragon's-tear diamond mask, a black opal inset ora tiara, an enameled onyx night sky pendant, a supple ebony leather longcoat with pewter satin lining, some thin-striped black silk stockings, a reinforced black leather satchel, a black leather climbing pack, a lace-contoured pale leather corset, some flowing red linen robes, a bustled matte black silk gown with filmy gauze half-sleeves, a golden imflass scroll tube, a cire leather herb kit scuffed at the corners, a cobalt-stitched pouch of plush quicksilver-hued velvet, and a pair of high-heeled strappy ebon silk slippers.
Commodore Erek SnowMane the Forest Warden
He appears to be a Sylvankind of the Lassaran D'ahranal.
He is tall in stature. He appears to be as old as the hills. He has sparkling green eyes and petal-soft, tanned skin. He has long, thick white hair strewn with leaves and crowned by an antlered faewood circlet entwined with bronzed hellebore. He has a full-face silver dragon mask with emerald-set eyes and ivory teeth fully covering his face and tiny laugh lines radiating from the outer corners of his eyes.
A plump faenor dragonfly clings to a strand of his hair.
A fall of leaves gently swirls about his form, the variegated tones highlighted by a faint sun-kissed sheen.
He is in good shape.
He is wearing a leather-strung pendant of curved ithaenil leaves encasing a lacquered acorn, a swallowtail butterfly greatcloak of midnight blue baldachin, a supple black suede vest buckled with carved modwir talons over a dark cinereal silk shirt buttoned with tiny hawthorn leaves with a finespun cream linen undershirt woven with moonlight silver ora threading underneath, an antique faenor band cradling a trio of emerald teardrops, a gold-veined emerald leather belt, some fitted caramel baldachin trousers shot with faenor threading, and some dusky embossed leather boots buttoned with wrought bronze branches.
Flickering near Erek is an antlered hart, its luminous figure composed of radiant white energy. Head raised to display its magnificent antlers, it sniffs at the air warily.
Hvati
She appears to be a Faendryl Dark Elf
She is shorter than average. She appears to be very young. She has silver eyes and black skin. She has very long, straight white hair worn in a single braid. She has a narrow face, a classical nose and slightly upswept pointed ears.
She is in good shape.
She is wearing a voluminous black stalking cloak, a staring raving lunatic mask, a ruby-clasped black silk satchel, a black leather backpack, a distressed ebon leather bandolier, some full leather, an onyx-studded shadowy black hip-satchel, a white spidersilk sack, a dark brocade pouch, and some reinforced black leather pants.
Mistress Ithilwyn Ta'Thyriel the Noblewoman
She appears to be an Elf.
She is average height. She appears to be very young. She has silver-flecked pale blue eyes and alabaster skin. She has very long, flowing silver blonde hair caught in a casual roll at the nape of her neck by some etched vaalin hairsticks. She has a delicate face and dimpled cheeks.
She is in good shape.
She is wearing a periwinkle silk choker with brightly shining clear glimaerstone teardrops, an alabaster cendal shawl fringed with vaalin beading, a white silk mask dripping with crystalline teardrops, a periwinkle cendal gown with trailing silver-webbed sleeves, a pair of ribbon-tied sheer silk stockings, and a pair of periwinkle silk slippers beaded with vaalin nodules.
Jiarine D'Nerval Nalfein
She appears to be an Elf.
She is diminutive and has a delicately boned, waifish body. It is difficult to determine her age as a violet duskjewel-dusted crystal mask overlaid in flameleaf-patterned black ora filigree covers most of her features, though her lash draped topaz-encircled brilliant cyan eyes can be seen in the eye slits. She has chin length, silky ebonwood-hued hair with longer layers of fiery gold and umber framing her face.
She has a tattooed pair of dancers clad with niveous silks on her arm, and an onyx-shaded crimson flame tattoo on her finger.
Undecipherable sigils are branded onto her fingertips, their edges emanating a dull black glow.
She is in good shape.
She is holding an ivory-inlaid dark sapphire cameo with a skull in bas-relief in her right hand.
She is wearing a thorny verdigris choker centered with eahnor bleeding heart roses, a garnet-sheened stygian velvet column gown, and some dark satin shoes perched on gilt-inset heels.
Town Councilor Kayse Thaellian the Firefly of the Darkstone Bay Consortium
She appears to be an Aelotoi of the Vaer'sah Clan.
She is moderately tall and has a curvaceous figure. She appears to be youthful. She has voluminously lashed, viridian-specked pear green eyes and freckle-dusted, smooth olive skin. She has waist-length, lustrous ultramarine hair pinned at the sides and held with a quintet of hairpins shaped as molded clay moonlight cactus-blooms, the rest of her hair tumbling over her shoulders in gentle curls. She has a champagne silk mask with gold labyrinthine coiled up the side covering the upper half of her face. She has strong and toned features, yet still possesses alluring feminine qualities enhanced by her soft full blush-hued lips. She has a pair of oval niveous-veined sparkling champagne wings with each dangling a mistwood lily charm nestled in gold-swept emerald leaves from their lower edges.
She has a series of smoke-hued feathers inked along her collarbone, an inked vine laden with blossoms on her waist, a kohl-outlined feather quill on her wrist, a multi-colored ink splotched lily on her arm, a primitively inked white jagged heart on her finger, an onyx-hued palm print inked on her wrist, and an ink-stroked flaming violet edged in gilt on her finger.
She has occasional faint traces of ivory-striated nightshade petals flowing beneath her visible skin.
She is in good shape.
She is wearing a bib collar of pale champagne-hued jewels imprisoned in dark gold, an asymmetrical raw silk wrap, a backless champagne tulle gown with multi-layered skirts embroidered with whorls of gold, a woven vine bracelet intertwined with amaranth cymes, a treble of helical zydris branchlets encircling the right index finger, and a pair of pale champagne organza chopines raised on floriated gold heels.
Imperatrix Lylia Rashere the Sorceress
She appears to be a Faendryl Dark Elf.
She is taller than average and has a slender build. She appears to be in the spring of life. She has wide-set storm grey eyes and cool-toned alabaster skin. She has waist length, thick auburn hair laced with bright copper highlights. She has a sleek bronze verlok mask with a crest of brilliant eahnor red feathers partially covering her face. The smooth symmetry of her face lends a patrician grace to her angular features. Fluidly curving along the tips of her ears, a set of vaelfyren earcaps in blended glittering red despanal whorls glint in the ambient light.
She is in good shape.
She is wearing a tasseled silk wrap embroidered in autumnal reds and golds, some articulated metal wings fashioned from hollow bronze rods and bright eahnor-hued feathers, a floor-length eahnor red satin gown embroidered with thin golden feathers, an antique silver wedding ring inlaid with an amber cabochon, and a pair of sparkling ruby slippers.
Archivist Melikor Thangorodrim Faendryl the Necromancer
He appears to be a Dark Elf.
He is tall in stature and has a thin, wiry frame. He has piercing storm grey eyes and pale tan sand-hued skin. He has mid back-length, fine silver hair topped with a tall black felt hat. He has tall upswept pointed ears. A thin nacreous grey quill is tucked behind his ear.
His face is concealed by a moon and star-printed mask.
He has a web of copper-inked runes on his wrist.
Dark shadows twist and swirl around him.
He is in good shape.
He is holding a faceted crystal tumbler embellished with elegant sterling silver accents in his right hand.
He is wearing an ivory silk cravat pinned with an ebon-tinged soulstone, an ebon and scarlet bourde longcoat lined with glistening adder scales, a silver-framed crest marked with a scarlet pentacle on a field of grey, a grey wool waistcoat paneled in pewter-threaded herringbone stripes, an alabaster cambric shirt buttoned with lustrous despanal cufflinks, an ancient silver signet ring, a polished silver pocket watch with a fine silver chain, some pressed grey wool trousers, and some charcoal grey socks under a pair of laced black leather shoes with narrow toes.
His formidable form stands within a silhouette of green-black flames, his footsteps leaving trails of fine ash.
Missoni Sabretache Faendryl the Witch
She appears to be a Dark Elf.
She is shorter than average and has a fragile, slender frame. It is difficult to determine her age as a blood amber mask overlaid in gold filigree covers most of her features, though her long-lashed chimerical viridian eyes can be seen in the eye slits. She has long, glossy black hair caught by a sunburst of sharp arathiel tines which extend from the intricate loops of her updo to illuminate her tresses with polychromatic rays.
She has an oval blood red eye tattoo on her neck, some inked whorls of mist on her arm, an eight-tined star tattooed in lapis ink on the top of her right hand, and a winged lark-shaped mark on her leg.
She is in good shape.
She is holding a chile-flecked cod fishcake in her right hand.
She is wearing a backless velvet gown coated in scores of ember-hearted aureate arathiel droplets, an ebon Vornavian silk armband, a quintet of arathiel fingertip talons that trail luminescence with each gesture, and a pair of flame-patterned aqilorn pompes lofted on gold-studded heels.
Nadier the Champion of Duskruin Arena
She appears to be a Dark Elf.
She is strikingly tall. She appears to have come of age. She has subtly tilted cerulean eyes and fair skin. She has waist length, straight blue-black hair bound into a twisted infinity knot by a series of slender gold hairpins. She has a classical nose and tall upswept pointed ears. She has smudged obsidian powder roughly encircling her eyes.
She has an elaborate golden maze tattoo on her wrist.
She is in good shape.
She is wearing a delicate gold filigree mask with silver leaf finish, a wide velveteen choker set with a thin-rayed black diamond starburst, a pair of elbow-length black gloves, a long black leather gown with a collar of raven feathers, a nacreous silk reticule cinched with gold braid, and some bewitching leather slippers studded with gold-veined despanal charms.
High Lord Nazarr Csaba Faendryl the Master Locksmith
He appears to be a Dark Elf.
He is strikingly tall. It is difficult to determine his age as a horned demonic mask covers most of his features, though his piercing grey-green eyes can be seen in the eye slits. He has short, straight bone white hair.
He has a tattoo depicting a silvery circle of interlocked Faendryl sigils on his neck.
He is wearing a diamond-set platinum earcuff, a silver-strung obsidian asp pendant, a storm grey woolen cloak clasped with a scarlet despanal, a tone-on-tone jet brocade doublet, a wide vaalin band wedded with a slender ring of feystone, some tapered black linen pants with a wide leather waistband, and a pair of dark silk stockings under a pair of razern-hued blue-black wide-cuffed boots capped with mithril.
Journeyman Noctiss the Wizard
He appears to be a Human.
He is average height. He appears to be very young. He has narrow, white-pupiled ebon eyes and silver-sheened skin. He has incredibly short, seafoam green hair shorn close to the scalp and dotted with bone-white barnacles, which have partially burrowed into the skin. He has a strong, muscular face, a wide, flaring nose and an intricate pattern of blue scales traversing his neck. He has bronze-hazed chocolate polish brushed onto his oval fingernails.
He has a silver-webbed twilight blue crescent in the upper ridge of his left ear.
Mystical energies wash over him, enveloping him in a light shroud of fluctuating winds.
He is in good shape.
He is wearing a small black and white penguin-shaped spidersilk wrist-pouch, a wide gold ring, an elongated brushed leather cloak woven with faint dark bronzed threading, a slim silver bracelet set with tiny diamonds, a crimson silk drawstring gem pouch shot through with elaborate blackworking, an onyx-formed smashed black widow emblem, a supple faded leather hood, a dull silver earring crowned with an emerald, a ruby amulet, a red silk bowtie, an azure-tinted black velvet grackle, a pair of sleek black-tinted glasses, an embroidered chainsil reticule, a heavy backpack, a fitted thistle grey tweed vest, a white cotton shirt, a metal-plated sanguine bracer, a filigree moon and stars wristlet, an etched red quartz wristcuff, some courtly white silk gloves, a rune-stitched dark leather belt, a laced grey leather frog patterned with stamped chevrons, a dark leather locksmith's toolkit, an archaic steel dodecahedron, some baggy faded leather pants with numerous scuff marks, some sanguine metal-plated bands, and a pair of lustrous knitted juniper mohair socks.
Perigourd Sabretache the Ka'Fahar'a dyur Kontiquaela
He appears to be a Human from Selanthia.
It is difficult to properly see his features as the weathered forest green hood of his cloak is pulled down over his face.
He has a silver and azure comet tattoo on his ankle, a tattooed symbol of Imaera on his wrist, and a blue-stitched crescent mark on his wrist.
Slender vines of Imaera's Lace wend across his exposed skin, the lengths unfurling with ethereal white blooms.
He gives off a fierce demeanor.
He is in good shape.
He is wearing a mottled forest green suede cloak, a rectangular golvern quiver with chamfered edges slung over his shoulder, a golvern-clasped dark leather baldric, a surcoat of quartered forest green and umber chainsil over some rugged golvern plate-and-mail with a quilted forest green gambeson underneath, an ebon Vornavian silk armband, some thick golvern arm greaves, a set of green glaes talons, an intricate golvern signet ring, a chain of thick golvern roundels, a dark leather swordbelt girded through twin golvern rings, a burled faewood scabbard with parqueted oak leaves, a sage leather gardening kit, a chocolate suede hip-satchel with forest jade beading, an amber-set pale golden warhorn, a pair of hunter green trousers, a pair of golvern leg greaves, and some turned-down russet suede stalking boots.
Flickering near Perigourd is a nimble deer, its luminous figure composed of forest green energy. Pacing in a protective circle around him, it keeps its antlers lowered.
Magister Raelee Svala the Scholar of the Hall of Mages
Flames dance around Raelee wreathing her in a torrent of violent energy.
She appears to be a Human from Chastonia.
She is shorter than average and has a small-boned build. She has distant, gold-flecked snow white eyes and milky white skin. She has long, loosely ringleted copper red hair pulled over her her left shoulder into a relaxed braid knotted with a strip of ivory linen. She has a small, tangled burn mark on her neck. She has a slender, porcelain-like countenance, made more striking by the rounded angles of her face.
Her face is concealed by a sculpted porcelain half-mask adorned with intricate swirls of gilt inlay.
She has a complex gold circular tattoo on the back of her right hand, a pale pattern of gold lines and sigils tattooed up her right arm, an inky black sigil on her wrist, and a quartet of tiny glyphs tattooed vertically along the inside of her left forearm.
She is in good shape.
She is wearing a gold choker suspending an asymmetric cluster of iridescent pearl droplets, a short pearly gauze overgown spilling into a sweeping train over a niveous silk gown with fiery veins of gold threading trailing down its hanging sleeves, a bronze and gold pearl-set band, a blue-jeweled heavy gold ring, and a pair of metallic-sheened ivory satin slippers.
Sirona
She appears to be a Sylvankind.
She is taller than average. She appears to be youthful. She has thick-lashed stormy grey eyes and tanned skin. She has very long, silken dark hair swept with soft dark strands which delicately frame her face and large glistening curls that gently fall about her body. She has a delicate silver lacework half mask studded with tiny diamonds covering the upper half of her face, a small nose and slightly pointed ears.
She is in good shape.
She is wearing a moonlight silver silk gown with black tracery, a spiralled dark crystal armlet, a pair of silvery silk gloves, a black silk wrist-purse, a silver-inlaid dark crystal anklet, and some black satin slippers with crystal beaded laces.
Tikba Liwan the Dark Crusader of Marlu
She appears to be an Aelotoi of the Gaeh'deh Clan.
She is taller than average. It is difficult to determine her age as a black doomstone-dusted amber mask covers most of her features, though her almond-shaped sea green eyes can be seen in the eye slits. She has unevenly cut, tangled raven black hair pulled into a messy finger-raked bun and pinned haphazardly with a horn-slatted ornamental fan displaying a semicircular array of verlok feathers, leaving a few loose strands to hang about her face.
Superimposed over Tikba's form is the ghostly silhouette of an aelotoi slave, a defiant expression on her face.
A blackened sigil has been branded into the flesh of her palm, the mark seeping tendrils of ebony smoke across a strand of prayerbeads wrapped around her wrist.
She is in good shape.
She is wearing a spiraled urglaes torc, a six-tentacled star etched into a baystone cabochon, a long garnet watered silk cloak, a ribbon-strapped lilac flyrsilk gown with asymmetric plum gauze overskirts, several thin alternating silver and black nightstone bangles, an urglaes thumb-ring, a knotted wireweed cuff, and a pair of moonlight silver shimmering aqilorn shoes stacked on squat heels.
The ground beneath Tikba writhes in swells of shadow, the demonic visages rising across her form before disappearing in a silent scream of dark mist.
Xorus Kul'shin the Dreadlord
He appears to be a Dark Elf.
He is tall and has a gaunt frame. He appears to be extremely old. He has brooding void black eyes and dark skin. He has shoulder length, flowing silver hair. He has a gaunt face, a sharp nose and a spider-shaped birthmark on his wrist.
He is in good shape.
A slowly rotating ring of sigils encircles each of his hands, scribed on the air in pale energy.
He is holding a warped black rowan runestaff with twisted stygian sigils in his right hand.
He is wearing a smooth steel torc caging a stargazer lily, a voluminous ebon spidersilk longcoat with a black deathstone fastener, a dark scarlet stargazer lily boutonniere with a black doomstone brooch, a xenium-threaded backpack, an elegant black-veined scarlet damask vest with a fractal motif, an exquisite rich sable silk shirt with black deathstone buttons, a dark glaes band, a gold-trimmed xenium scabbard, some high-waisted ebon marbrinus pants with an obsidian buckle, and some ebon vruul leather boots with blackened ora straps.
The ground beneath Xorus writhes in swells of shadow, the demonic visages rising across his form before disappearing in a silent scream of dark mist.
Blade Yardie the Palestra
He appears to be a Faendryl Dark Elf.
He is average height and has a trim build. He appears to be young. He has piercing violet eyes and silken black skin. He has very long, straight blue-black hair woven into a wrist-thick herringbone braid that is bound with an ornate argent lor band. He has an intricately carved ivory mask edged in mithglin partially covering his face and full lips. He has a puckered, raised scar on the back of his left hand that forms a perfectly symmetrical spiderweb. He also has a tapered jawline and well-proportioned features.
He has an inked crimson crest depicting a crossed quill and rose on his wrist.
He is in good shape.
He is holding a bottle of purple rum in his right hand.
He is wearing a vaalin-bound mist grey shard suspended from an intricate mithglin chain, an intricately woven necklace of coppery damask and sable flyrsilk ribbons, a heart-shaped dichroic glass locket, an enameled onyx night sky pendant, an ebon-sheened silvery lor quill tucked behind one ear, a woodland creature-shaped relic, a lor triskele inset with three ebon-veined despanals, a crisp garnet linen shirt with faint tonal embroidery, a thin etched eahnor band, a delicately crafted hexagonal mithglin ring, a polished silver pocket watch with a fine silver chain, a pair of tailored sable linen trousers, a wiregrass anklet, and a pair of cushioned silver-threaded black socks under some charcoal silk shoes paneled in matching suede.
A medley of woodland creatures stand behind Yardie, leaving a blur of fur and feathers as they scamper around.
Chamberlain Ysharra Nagorn
She appears to be a Half-Elf.
She is of a towering height. She appears to be very young. She has beautifully smoke-outlined silver-rimmed cobalt blue eyes and wintry pale porcelain skin. She has hip length, lustrous white blonde hair piled high in an elaborate chignon and offset by a porcelain theatrical mask headpiece crowned with white orchids. She has a finely-boned face and full, shell-pink lips complemented with soft rosy cheeks. A narrow strand of dark grey runs along her hair.
She has a swooping ebon winter drake tattoo on her leg, and a dark rolling cloud tattoo on her thigh.
Miniature rusted shackles spiral outward from her before fading away.
She has a contorted series of sharply thorned vines creating a labyrinth across her arms.
She is in good shape.
She is wearing a despanal-set mithril choker, a slashed myklian scale-boned corset displaying wild orchid-patterned silk over a side-chained pale violet silk gown overlaid in shimmering gossamer, a ruby-inlaid wrought mithril ring, and some smoke grey silver-threaded stockings embroidered with thorn-laden ribbon bands under some dark embroidered velvet high-heeled shoes.