"Oh, you don't have to think of them as lessons," Ellana assures her. "It could just be the two of us talking about it. I'm not going to make you take an exam or anything. That'd be no fun at all!" Besides, this is supposed to be something done on the side. It's not like Fern is required to know the Creators to join a certain career.

"The ancient elves often paid tribute to the gods," she says, lifting a hand to acknowledge the ruins. "There isn't a ruin I've seen that didn't have murals or mosaics depicting the Creators, or the symbols associated with them."