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Roan

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This is Roan, the selkie. She appears in my story Ballad of Illendareth: Infuse "Long ago, before wars raged and the earth bled, dragons roamed these lands: earth dragons - immortal, ancient; air dragons, faster than wind itself; sea dragons, massive, stronger than any creature; fire dragons, unstoppable, impervious to attack.
For centuries, they lived among us, learning to take our shape, mingling their blood with our own. They shared their abilities, instilling the very earth with power. Until mankind ceased to believe in magic, or believed it was only to be feared. Then the dragons departed. No doubt some remained, unseen by mortal eyes, but most fled to others realms, where men could never follow -"

"What about huma
which is a Book Five excerpt.

If you don't know what a selkie it, they are magical seals who can shed their skin and walk on land as humans. If a human manages to steal their sealskin, the selkie cannot return to the sea and must stay and marry the skin-thief. In most myths, the selkie comes to love their captor, births children, but eventually finds the skin, and must then choose between their human family and the sea. Inevitably, the pull of the sea is just too strong.

It is an amazing myth from the British Isles, but is so unknown that dA doesn't even recognize the word! My good friend, the always-amazing :iconmorbidmistress666: =MorbidMistress666 is trying to change this, by publishing an "Under Loved Mythological Creatures" series, beginning with selkies. More information about that can be found here: :aww:
Under loved mythological CreaturesThose of you who watch me probably know that each month I  try  to feature  with art I found that month which I consider to be amazing. I've decided that starting next  year, along with the monthly feature, I'll be bringing you a new "news article" (we can't really call them that anymore :saddummy:) about an under loved mythological creature.  There's so many out there, yet a great majority of them remain little known.You can help me with this by finding information (must site sources) and pictures on dA for the next months creature, favoriting the news articles, and suggesting creatures. Please note I will not be acc



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Heather-Chrysalis's avatar
I love selkies too! I have some poems for them also, but not up on DA yet.