A well meaning friend, after reading my fourth novel, gently pointed out to me that the plots in all four were identical: a fairy prince falls in love with a mortal girl and chaos ensues.

I hotly protested. And I realized my friend was right. And protested anyway. And thereupon sat down and decided to fix it...

The Elloi are the first race I've actually invented. They are, in essence, fairies. The kind of fairies you see in those pictures, with transparent wings? Yeah, those. They have transparent wings, which somehow contain their magic.

The lived on their own for many, many years in peace, for they were immortal. No mortals came to disturb them for no one could cross the mountains. Eventually, however, an exiled prince and his companions get lost in the northern sea and end up in Elleys, which translates to the Blessed Lands; and stay; much to the dismay of the Queen. When the Queen marries the mortal prince there is a war, and part of the Elloi leave the kingdom and hide in the mountains. The rest stay and mingle with the mortals, gradually forming one race.

The magic of the Elloi didn't mix well with the inherent evil in the mortals and a race of wizards came into power, battling for absolute supremacy against each other and using the commoners to achieve it. A common farm boy wakes up one morning and leads the people in revolt against the wizards, and to their surprise the last of the pure blooded Elloi came down out of their mountains to help.

Tell, (for so the boy was called,) succeeded in vanquishing and taming the power of the wizards and set up a new kingdom. With the help of the wizards and the Elloi he wrote his law into the land itself, so that it could not be broken. He bound the power of the Elloi so that it could not be misused. He forbade the practice of Dark Magic within th precincts of Elleys, and forbade a wizard to rule.

Thus the Elloi became very similar to the race of mortals. Fairer, and accustomed to living in peace they had the blessing of their wizards who could cast spells and see the future. And every child was born with a special gift, the last vestment of the original magic that every winged being once had in full power. For some it is shape-shifting, for some it is second sight, it varies. Few have the same gift in the same way. The gifts are both a blessing and a curse to them.

Through the folly of one powerful prince the door was opened into Elleys over the mountains to the mortals. They came first out of friendship, then as an army, and finally as enemies. the Blessed lands were torn apart as Tell's law fell into pieces under the bloodshed, until, sick of the fighting, a mortal queen and the heir to the rule of the Elloi make an alliance and marry. No dissenting parties could stand against their allegiance and the fighting ceased. The thin blood of the Elloi is further diluted as the mortals mix with them freely until the great kingdom of Elleys fades into the mists of the past.

This is an interesting history and race...so after all of this there are no more wizards or special abilities?