This is the story of the Sryl and why we loathe them so much so that they have become a dark secret among us

Those who know us well know about the "Pink Horror". This was a period in our history that marked the end of the "meta civilization" which featured the clan wars and other things

You will note that you do not see any dark-haired, dark-eyed amongst us, or violet-eyed. You may think to yourself that since we are obviously capable of having such. Why is this so?

Well some time ago. our mode of dress started to become rigid, with the lighter-haird wearing white dresses and gowns and the dark-heared wearing pink. Now, our two favorite colors are pink and purple and have been for just ever so a group of us wearing pink as part of their dress was no problem

However there grew to be an antipathy between the light and dark haired and eyed. Soon the Dark's wanted to split Fairyland into two indepent lands where each would live separately from the other. It seems that they thought that the Lights considered them inferior which is totally untrue. However, they got their wish

Not long thereafter. The Darks launched a sneak attack on the Lights and enslaved them. as part of this the Lights had their white things taken away from them and were dressed universially in short pink rubber dresses and other rubber clothes. The queen said "Well, sister-kin. you have prided yourselves too long on your lovely whate gowns, let us see how haughty you are in pink babygirl rubber dresses. Short and trollopy; the perfect punishment for the Proud"

As time grew the dark haired and eyed became more and more cruel but other things happened as well. As they resorted more and more to slavery, they became dependent on their "blondie" slaves so they bred them heavily and the numbers of blondies grew in proportion to the others, whose numbers also dwindled. At the end of 3 lifetimes there were about 5,000 Darks and 500,000 "blondies". "Blondie" became an epithet and more than one duel was fought over a claim that a person was "tainted with slave blood". The Darks also let their use of magic grow weak since they could get one of their slaves to do the work. Their treatement became so harsh that the "blondies"'s bodies developed an aversion to pink, enven pink Fairy satin burns us. To wear anything pink, we need to wear somethng under it so that the pink material does not touch our bodies

These slave-holders called themselves "Sryl". Old Parla for "Lady" but a special kind of lady. It means an overseer from the days of Malicia and until the Great Rebillion. They added "sryl'" to their names and it graduall became the rule that they were also violet-eyed as well as dark-haired.

After 90 generations. they committed the unthnkable horror. Gradually making the "blondies" less and less "person" until one day they sought to do the unthinkable: Deprive us of our tiaras

Thus ensued the Second Great Rebellion. This was over in a night. My anscestors did not realize how weak their rulers had become. The Sryl had let their skills at magic dwindle to almost nothing and we outnumbered them 100 to one. Rather than being killed, they were turned into indestrctible dolls; all 5,000 of them

This has left us scarred in two ways, we cannot wear anything pink directly on our bodies. Every now and then, a child is born with violet in her eyes. Thankfully, no dark-haired has been born since the Second Great Rebeillion. We fear the violet-eyed for what they may become. Children born with any shade of violet in their eyes are put out. This is a horror to us because a Fairylet does not get her hair and eye color until she is 4. To have a child that one has lived with and cared for taken from her is a mother's nightmare. I know this because it happened to one of my cousins and she was grief-stricken for a generation. This was part of the origin of the phrase. "We commit small horrors to avoid having to liver large one" and "the Curse [of being violet-eyed]"

Somehow some 800 years ago, some of these outcasts survived and ended up living in the Taris Islnads far to the south where Florida would be. We soon noticed that those put out vanished quickly. We seearched the land and found their home. Rather than obliterate them we concluded that at that distance they were no threat to us and contacted them, explained the whole story and that we were glad that they now live as they are attractive and said that they could have that area all to themselves as a reservation to run as they saw fit. Well they wanted nothing to do with us and we did not blame them and as long as they did not threaten us, we would not harm them and in fact hoped for a time when we could be rejoined since it was two races breeding separately that spawned all of this horror. Some 400 years ago one of our spies was captured and set up an agreement where they could come to visit on special Fairy holidays so long as they woud surrnender their wands to members of the clans that they would be in and live with them while here. To which both Queens agreed. Their Queen being the outcast daughter of the spy in question. A sort of embassy was set up there in the hose where she lived, which she described as "...a gorgeous home set on a hill. which, if I were to live here, is where I would make my abode". As part of the agreement, her punishment for spying was that she had to remain there 11 of 12 months of the year for the rest of her life. Well, this was made use of by our Queen appointing her as the Ambassedress to the Taris People and the rest of her family moved in with her. With a bit of material help and mostly on their ow, the Tarisiannes have create a lovely culture

Anyway. This is the story of the Pink Horror and the sryl