Sylphs

🍄 Overview

Sylphs are wind spirits born of air and sunlight, dwelling in high, lofty places like mountaintops. 

🍄 Appearance

Sylphs are made from air and wind. Their bodies are often cool toned in colour, and their hair is made from fog, wind, rain and ice.

Magic-aligned Sylphs often have circular runes in white, blue or gold adorning their bodies and faces.

Design Guidelines

• Sylphs float. It's not uncommon to see one floating sitting down in the air, or reclining in the air.

• Sylph bodies are made from condensed, magical air. Sometimes they may accidentally aborb something like a flower, bird or plant and it will float around in their body until they pull it out.

• They have pointed ears.

Clothing

• Slyphs like light, comfortable fabrics and often wear their clothing long so it drapes and flutters in the wind.

• Sylphs wear white, grey or blue leather armor, or silver (metal) armour.

• They like silk, lace, and see through fabrics.

• They may adorn themselves with silk ropes, leaves, vines and flowers.

• They love lots of jewellery.

• They don't usually wear shoes.

🍄 Birth, Life and Death

Birth

• Sylphling babies are formed from the wind, seemingly at random. They form as laughing happy babies made of wind, chasing each other in the breeze.

Life

• Sylphs can live to be up to 200 years old.

Death

• When Sylphs die, their bodies turn back into wind and fade into the air. There is no trace of them left behind.

• Their loves ones sing a funerary song, which is ethereal, morose, and haunting. 

🍄 Sylph Customs & Culture

Personality Traits

• Sylphs can be quick witted, intelligent, cunning and sharp tongued.

• Sylphs make decisions quickly and hate deliberating for a long time. They can be impatient.

• They can be passive aggressive or haughty.

Your Sylph character can have a few of these traits but don't have to have all of them. Please feel free to put a unique spin on it.

Romance, Marriage and Offspring

Romance

• No issue with same sex or interracial relationships.

• Sylphs fall in and out of love quickly. They may be with someone only for a season, then drift away again.

Marriage

• Unlikely to marry, they value freedom too much.

• Marriage ceremonies are held on the edges of cliffs, mountaintops (anywhere that might be windy). Vows are whispered into the breeze and carried off.

Offspring

• Sylphs can procreate, their young appear at random in the sky. They're more likely to be born in places that are stormy or windy.

Miscellaneous

• Sylphs have historically been used as mercenaries or guards for nobles.

• Sylphs can turn dark and stormy when angered.

• They have excellent singing voices. Their voices are ethereal and otherworldly, and can carry very far on the wind.

• They feel very claustrophobic in caves, tight spaces, and underground.

If you have questions about Sylph, please ask them in the helpdesk channel on Discord!