History Characters / Serina

* TheBabyOfTheBunch: Whirl is actually slightly older than her friends chronologically, but since daydreamers mature much more slowly than greenskeepers and thalassic gravediggers, by the time of the story proper she's roughly equivalent to a human in their late teens while her friends are all well into adulthood, with Patch even becoming a grandmother whose grandchildren Whirl babysits. (Seeker and Pebble by contrast are asexual and lesbian respectively.)

* TheBlacksmith: The sylvansparks are notable for being the first of Serina's sophonts to achieve metallurgy and enter the Copper Age, smelting copper for use as tools and jewelry amongst themselves and as trade items with slaughtersprinters and whisperwings.[[note]]While the latter is capable of working metal on their own, most whisperwings are incapable of smelting it themselves[[/note]]

* BizarreAlienPsychology: Due to evolving from more solitary ancestors, while whisperwings are social, a remnant of their territorial instincts is that while they do live in groups, every whisperwing has their own separate nest rather instead of living communally in one, and they will only allow another adult whisperwing in under very special circumstances.

* TheDiscoveryOfFire: The slaughtersprinters are capable of making and using fire, and may have been the first to discover its use amongst their era's sophonts, but use it for cooking as opposed to the sylvansparks having enough fire knowledge to go into metallurgy.