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Revision as of 15:00, 8 November 2013
The Inanimae are immortal faerie spirits that bind themselves to inanimate things rather than human bodies. Most Inanimae are linked to a certain element: air, earth, fire, water, and plant life. The newest breed of Inanimae link themselves to non-living representations of humanity, like dolls, puppets and mannequins. All Inanimae are divided into different phyla, like kiths, and specialize in a particular "Sliver", the Inanimae version of Arts. All Inanimae have an "Anchor", like a rock or a tree, and they are protected from Banality while they remain within it. Those who still have natural Anchors are called "Gladelings", those whose Anchors have been altered by mortal (or other) hands are called "Krofted". The Gladelings and the Krofted have differing views, much as the Seelie and Unseelie of the Kithain. In order to leave their Anchors (the inanimate thing to which they are tied) an Inanimae must cloak their dreamform in a semblance of a mortal body, called a "Husk", or else succumb to Banality. Some Inanimae become quite skilled at crafting these Husks, and some have only barely recognizeable human features in their Husks.
Many of them are still sleeping and their Seeming (named Jeu) indicate how long an Inanimae has been awake in the mundane world. Some of the Grumps would probably remember the Courts of the Dark Ages, when they were divided between the four seasons. During the Dark Ages, they were more varied, but they are now divided between 5 Phyla:
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Phyla
Glomes
Kuberas
Ondines
Parosemes
===Solimonds=== (SO-lih-moands)
The spirits of fire are much as they might be expected to be. Hot tempered, but possessed of a strange nobility, the solimonds are the exiles of the Inanimae. The current solimond empire is ruled by a puppet emperor who is supported by the glome military, the solimonds that do not follow this ruler (the vast majority of them) are considered traitors. It was the solimonds that first gave man the power to Kroft Anchors, and they bear the guilt of the Making War between the Krofted and the Gladeling Inanimae. Solimonds are able to pursue goals with a single minded devotion that aids them in their determination. They are also able to summon up gouts of flame to burn their enemies. All solimonds have great difficulty lying though, it is a great act of will for a solimond to speak anything but the truth. Their Sliver is Pyros, which deals with emotions, combat and fire.
===Mannikins=== (MAN-ih-kins)
Enigmas of the Inanimae, who are enigmatic to even the strange Kithain, mannikins inhabit things that resemble the form of man. Among the most outgoing Inanimae, the mannikins are the ones most to be found trying to fit in among the meat changelings and mortals, but never quite being able to. Mannikins are almost entirely Krofted, except for some rare ones that inhabit natural formations in human shape. Alone among the Inanimae, mannikins may learn the Arts of the Kithain in addition to the Slivers of the Inanimae. They also understand all of the elemental tongues of the other Inanimae, though they speak none. Mannikins have no Sliver of their own though, and may never completely master any Art or Sliver.
