Things Owen Williams has learned about the fae, a third and ongoing thread.

Dragon fire comes from hydrogen deep in their lungs so under no circumstances should you make fun of how squeaky their voices sound.

Calling a werewolf Fido is a good way to get hurt

Calling a werewolf a bitch, even if it is technically accurate, is a great way to get killed

By and large the elves are tone deaf and no one really understands why.

The queen's apartment has a porch that overlooks the market cavern. On a quiet afternoon, you may be able to see her grading papers.

If you hear loud cursing, look for flying papers because she's just dropped some of then and she might give you a blessing if you give them back.

Never comment or bring it up if you pass someone naked on the streets. The fae stopped caring about nudity the first time the shades invisibly sabotaged a group of tanks during the war.

Besides, werewolves hate the feeling of cloth rubbing their fur the wrong way.

Dwarf hair makes excellent rope.

No, they will not elaborate on how they discovered this no matter how often you ask.

The angels established the Nead in a valley near Tearmann after the third collapse in their training quarters.

Young angels have literally explosive tempers and being underground just isn't conducive to learning to control them.

Trolls are fond of pranks. If your office door is open when you're sure you left it closed, push it open with a stick if you don't want to get soaked.

And then watch out for the glue on your chair.

Harpies are excellent with numbers, grasping mathematical concepts that would take most people months to master in just a few days.

Conversely, if a subject doesn't interest them you'd have better luck teaching a rock to speak.

An important thing to remember when riding dragons is that you're a passenger. You aren't the one in charge.

Try to steer a dragon and they'll see how well you fly.

Harpies a gossipy bunch by nature. They'll keep a secret if you ask them, but otherwise anything and everything us available for ripping apart over tea.

Centaurs are designed better than horses in many ways.

For one, their legs are actually legs instead of elongated fingers. It is widely agreed that this is the best difference between the two species.

The market is all that's left of the original cave system that became Tearmann. For almost five years, it housed the Fae while they expanded tunnels, carved rooms, and built themselves a home.

And now, seventy years later, it's still the center of their lives.

The Founders are the firstborn of each species and they have untold power over their younger kin.

When they were human, they were ordinary. Teachers, doctors, parents, and children.

As fae, they have no choice but to lead or watch their species fall into ruin.

When the winter winds blow and the last of the dragons have returned to their roosts, the echoes of their song drift down through the mountain.
There are no words to this music. The melody settles in the listeners bones, speaking in a tongue never given voice and never forgotten.