The Faellem are a fictional human species from Ian Irvine's arc of novels, The Three Worlds Cycle. Ian Irvine (born 1950 is an Australian Fantasy /eco- thriller author and marine scientist. The Three Worlds Cycle is a series of novels written by author Ian Irvine.
The Faellem are a small, dour people with translucent skin and golden eyes.
They are very long lived and their powers with the Art are mostly in the form of illusion, deception, confusion and enchantment. The Secret Art is effectively "magic" in Ian Irvine 's fictional cycle of series of books The Three Worlds Cycle. The ability to "link" is a talent that can only be inherited from the Faellem.
The Faellem are descended from the original people of the world of Tallallame. Tallallame is one of three fictional worlds in Ian Irvine 's The Three Worlds Cycle. Their world is considered to be the most beautiful of all the Three Worlds. The Three Worlds Cycle is a series of novels written by author Ian Irvine. The Faellem see all places to be but a shadow next to the beauty of Tallallame, and because of this, have alone of the four species, never made a home on Santhenar. Santhenar is one of three fictional planets in Ian Irvine 's The Three Worlds Cycle. On Santhenar they dwell in the boggy land of Mirrilladell because it is sparsely populated and because on Tallallame the Faellem had lived a mostly tribal life.
All Faellem children learn to play the nanollet at a young age.
Faelamor was chosen, before crossing the Void to Santhenar, to be the leader of the band of Faellem who would venture to that far off world to hunt for The Golden Flute and to keep watch on the disturbing Charon. Faelamor is a main character in Ian Irvine 's The View from the Mirror quartet The Charon are a fictional human species from Ian Irvine 's arc of novels The Three Worlds Cycle. Faelamor's main rival in gaining leadership was another Faellem woman by the name of Hallal. Hallal was somewhat different in character to Faelamor and if she had been chosen to be leader, it is likely many things would have been different. The events of The View from the Mirror may not even have come to pass. The View from the Mirror is the first quartet in Ian Irvine 's The Three Worlds Cycle series
Tallallame once was home to two distinctly different species of human. One was the small, dour Faellem. And the other is a forgotten species, the tall, dark Mariem. The Charon are a fictional human species from Ian Irvine 's arc of novels The Three Worlds Cycle. The two species rarely interbred and the two societies could not be more different.
Both species were very long lived. The Mariem built great cities, cut down trees and dammed rivers. This greatly disturbed the Faellem, who loved their world and could never condone harming it in any way. The Faellem noticed how the Mariem were able to use their Art to travel great distances using magical gates.
The Faellem knew that with the rapid expansion the Mariem were undergoing, that they themselves would soon dwindle to nothing, and that they must do something to stop it. The Faellem gathered their most powerful mancers together and experimented with the use of gates. When the Faellem mancers had mastered that form of the Art they used their mastery of the mind to cast a great illusion over the entire population of the Mariem to make them believe they were going through a gate to a wonderful world of their own. Instead the Faellem envisioned a place of violence and brutality and sent the Mariem to their doom. The Faellem had no idea that such a place existed and that was where the Mariem would end up: The Void.