The Aifon may be extinct, but they may still have descendants?...

[Love]

Baron Duin i think

 

[jimi12]

sheelba? her LH always looked too human to me

 

[Kael]

All wrong so far. I guess this could have been a trivia question. And yes its already been revealed.

 

[ElCommandante]

Could it be Mardero?

 

[Love]

Varn?

Or some of his relatives?

 

[Kael]

Could it be Mardero?

Yeap, its Mardero. Son of a demon and a human mother.

 

[smjjames]

Oh yea, Mardero is half demon, his father is Hastur I think and his mother is Lita the witch.

Unless Kael is referring to a less unholy union.

Edit: ninjaed

 

[Darksaber1]

If not Hastur himself, one of his cheif minions.

 

[Crazy_Ivan]

Abit closer to the original topic,

What if the Aifon were destroyed by a nightmare?

Seeing as how their patron god is an effective dreamer, who later spawned an effective dreamer in his likeness, who through coincidence or calling, created the Octopus Overlords, who reside where the Aifon civilization did, it seems possible.

Presumably (in my theory crafting), wouldn't it be a rather unpleasant thing to a god for their chosen race to be destroyed? Well, what if Danalin accidentally dreamed them out of existance? (not on purpose of course)

This is where I'll seperate the first half of my theory from the crazier second half.

I'll even crank up the theory crafting dial to 11 and postulate the Octopus Overlords are actually the entirety of the Aifon people's souls trapped on the mortal plane and channeling themselves through Hemah's dreams, as he is their closest conduit.

Edit: Of course, that still leaves the question of what created the forbearing sense of doom that lead to Danalin having his nightmare, but lets just say a wizard did it.

Second edit: Theory obviously debunked by next post. Kept for posterity.

 

[jimi12]

danalin didnt start dreaming until AFTER they were already destroyed so he couldnt have dreamed them out of existance.

 

[smjjames]

Actually it says right in the FFH2 history that Hastur is whispering to Danalin, causing his nightmares.

This was quite some time after the Aifon dissapeared, so we don't know what was going on in Danalin's self-induced stasis sleep between the Aifon's dissapearance and Hastur messing with his dreams.

 

[Darksaber1]

Hmm, did the victim have any Enemies? Any one that would want to harm him/she/it/them/non-gender specific commonality?

 

[thomas.berubeg]

The Lanun are another fractured group of the Patrians so they definitely wouldn't have any direct connection with the Aifon. However, given most of the seafaring Patrians became the Lanun, if there was any intermingling between the two races it would have been within them. Might be a good inspiration for a new Lanun hero. I love Guybrush to death when he's in his element, but he just doesn't feel right in a dark fantasy setting like FFH.

Example:

Jael the Aifling
Melee Unit
Strength 5
Water Affinity + 1
Movement 1
Starts with: Boarding, Waterwalking, Hero, Light


“Prepare yourselves men!”

Jael ran amidst her sailors rallying them as she hurried from one station to another. Where their faces were flushed red and beaded with sweat, her own was taking on a light shade of blue and was as cool as the sea itself.

“They’re making a hard turn and the wind is in their favor captain!” The call came from the crow’s nest, but she had already seen their ploy.

The Silver Maiden nearly overtook its smaller quarry as the caravel broke for the open seas.

“She’s too light, we’ll never catch her!” A disappointed crewman, weapon already brandished watched as the now tiny gap between the two vessels began to widen.

“We’ll catch her alright,” Jael reassured her men, as she took a deep breath and sheathed her cutlass. She had promised Falamar she would capture the spy and she didn’t intend to disappoint.

The crew at the fore of the ship spread apart to make room for their captain. Her blue skin was only one of the reasons she was known as the ‘Aifling’, her charge off the front of the ship and the speed and grace as she swept through the water was the other.

A cheer rose through the Maiden as the familiar sight of their captain leapt from the water and landed right behind the helmsman of the caravel cleaving him from his post and turning the ship towards the waiting grasp of her own.


Just a thought

right here (though i renamed her Talya, as i like that name more than Jael)

 

[PinkPikachu]

I never really thought about decendants of the Aifons until reading the OP post. They did trade openly with Patria so its very likely there were at least a few half human half Aifon children running around. Its not even unthinkable that some Aifons would have decided to live in the human cities though this would have been pretty rare (like an elf deciding to go live in a human city).

There were no other significant Aifon settlements other than the island chain that they inhabited, and assuming that their bloodline was spread it would be pretty diluted through all the centuries that have occurred since then, especially considering the impact the Age of Ice had on everyone.

Couldn't you use selective breeding to bring back a more 'pure' strain of Aifons? Seems like a pretty good start for a Civilization, lead by someone of unusually strong heritage. Inbreeding during the Age of Ice also could have preserved some of the blood as well.

 

[wilboman]

...or you could end up with what the Grail were stuck with in Preacher.