Characteristics
Preservers appear somewhat fairylike: small winged humanoid creatures, who come in many different colors. Preservers are genderless, immortal, and nearly invulnerable except for their relatively fragile wings. They have four fingers (three fingers and one thumb) on each hand, and four toes, three pointing forward and one backward, giving them birdlike feet. They are intelligent, although compared to humans, elves or trolls they seem rather bubbleheaded and naive. They wear hats, but no clothes.
Preservers see their vocation in protecting elves. Their most useful ability toward that goal lies in being able to produce wrapstuff, a substance similar to but much stronger than spider silk. Anything (or anyone) enclosed in a cocoon of this substance is "outside of time". It has been used, among other things, for preserving food and to prevent gravely injured people from dying until a healer can take care of them. While an elf sealed in wrapstuff does not need food or air, he or she can still work magic; thus wrapstuff is used to enable elves to spend some time concentrating on their magic alone.
Preservers also can tell at any time in which direction the Palace of the High Ones lies.
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