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Creatures of Ithia: The Tuatha de Chroi.

The Tuatha de Chroi are strange creatures often mistaken for Fae but they are capable of true death. It is believed they are a byproduct from the binding and breaking of the Fae Queen Viilnor. The Tuatha are difficult for mortals to see as they are not entirely present in the material state giving them an ethereal unreal look. The bite of Iron kills their magic, and the bite of silver ruins their bodies, the bite of both is the only way to kill a Tuatha. They can be caught and bound in cages of Blackthorn and grievously wounded by clubs carved from it. All Tuatha can use Geasa and Athru but unlike the Sidhe are weak with glamours. The Tuatha have far less numbers than the Sidhe. The Tuatha are creatures of the Heart and feed on aspects of it. 

The Rinceoir na Cupa are the Tuatha of pleasure and are creatures of hedonism. The Rinceoir na Cupa are strangely beautiful, tragically, like happy memories of a life lost at a memorial. They are pale with paths of tears carved into their skin like great canyons. Cracks cover their bodies filled in with gold and resin and mist clings to them. They feed off pleasure and thus provide it to those who seek them. Their Glamour is specialized so neatly they can physically manifest it into real food, drink, and that which brings bliss. The Like most Tuatha the Cupa do not rely on Glamour to become beautiful but sometimes they use it to pass as mortals. 

The Rinceoir na gCloich are the Tuatha of wrath and pain they are the soldiers of the Tuatha and fight those who endanger their kin. They have a grave almost nightmarish beauty to them like the statues of a graveyard at the witching hour. They often wear their shadows as a cloak and light as armor and wield swords of liquid gold and bronze that scalds as it strikes. They feed off the anger and pain of others but are often in hibernate states as while the Sidhe are creatures that seek to do harm the Tuatha are not. They are only woken when there is conflict for them to feed on. 

The Rinceoir na nGaire are the Tuatha of acceptance. They are the sadest of the Tuatha and radiate beauty and a sense that something great now sits broken and diminished. They are beautiful in ways that can be weaponized to inflict physical pain, antlers spread from their brows and hair of cornsilk, and gold stretches behind them. Their eyes pools of infinite gold that bleeds down their faces in eternal streams of bloody tears. Wrinkles crack their otherwise flawless bodies leaving them with the impression they might crumble to dust at a whisper. The nGaire feed off acceptance and they appear in black solumn clothes letting loose a wail often mistaken for banshee that signals the death of a human for it wails when it senses the mortal’s acceptance of death. They feed off this acceptance and often bury those who find it alone and or lost. The nGaire have great and terrible Foirm able to command the full range of the Fury Planes and have access to the Pairc though its power diminishes and if overused kills them. They are considered the most powerful of the Tuatha. 

The Rinceoir na gCluaise are the Tuatha of sacrifice and are the most common of the Tuatha. They are strange but beautiful often plainer than the other dancers. They have skin of ebony, silks, and wooden shades swirled together across smooth skin. Their eyes are large and heterochromatic often in contrast to what color skin is surrounding each eye. They feed off sacrifice or any time one puts another life above their own whether it’s a parent tightening the belt to ensure their child gets enough or a brother in arms giving their lives to save his fellows all are taken with reverence to sustain the gCluaise. They are the best Tuatha at Glamours and are often in mortal disguise in mortal cities where they can feed. 

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