{"id":17188,"date":"2025-12-22T14:02:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T14:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/?p=17188"},"modified":"2025-12-22T14:02:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T14:02:39","slug":"lady-de-wynters-aelixius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/2025\/12\/lady-de-wynters-aelixius\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady de Wynter&#8217;s \u00c6lixius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/christmas-card-2025.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-17190\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/christmas-card-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/christmas-card-2025.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/christmas-card-2025-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/christmas-card-2025-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/christmas-card-2025-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Long before Julius Caesar first set foot on Albion&#8217;s soil or the giants Gog and Magog bestrode it&#8217;s endless forests and mountains,<\/p>\n<p>a star fell one midwinter&#8217;s eve in a frosted clearing at the very centre of isle. It&#8217;s ony witness was a poor benighted orphan girl who had all but given herself to the embrace of death.<\/p>\n<p>The star sang a silent song that warmed her heart and restored her spirit, and forever more their fates would become entwined.<\/p>\n<p>A charmed life it would grant to her and all of her decendents, all that was asked in exchange was a vow of silence and protection from those who would abuse it&#8217;s gift for power and dominion over others.<\/p>\n<p>And so, through long centuries it has become the sacred duty of the de Wynters to safeguard this ancient occult wonder &#8211; The \u00c6lixius Caer Lerion*.<\/p>\n<p>* Cear Lerion is the name given by the ancient Britons to the settlement that would one day become the city of Leicester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[475],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17192,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17188\/revisions\/17192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}