History
The ancestors of the Preservers were butterfly-like creatures the High Ones took with them from their dying world.They evolved into what they are now under the influence of the magic of the Palace, and in the end became essential to the High Ones. The guiders of the Palace and Orolin, the keeper of the Scroll of Colors, were sealed in wrapstuff to concentrate on their tasks, and some doors in the Palace were built so that only a preserver could open them.
Since neither the Wolfriders nor the Sun Folk nor the Go-Backs knew of preservers, it seems most, if not all preservers stayed with the group of Elves that would later become the Gliders. For a while, the existence of the preservers kept Lord Voll's memory of the Palace and the outside world fresh, but to prevent this remembering, Winnowill sent them out to catch animals and wrap them in webstuff for the Gliders to collect later, although in fact she planned never to have the Gliders do so.
After the Wolfriders "discovered" them, the Preservers spread out some more, some staying with the Sun Folk, others with the different groups of Wolfriders.
An early chapter of WaveDancers shows a Preserver, but since none was featured later, this seems to have been a slip.
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