A pair of phoenixes was successfully created, and Sylas bestowed them as companions upon his children.
The male phoenix was given to his daughter Elseth, while the female phoenix was entrusted to his son Elroth.
Both children adored the gifts their father had given them. The magnificent, radiant phoenixes perfectly matched their aesthetic tastes, noble and brilliant alike. More importantly, as descendants of Sylas, Elseth and Elroth had inherited traces of the phoenix's bloodline within their own.
Not only were they able to summon and command phoenixes, they could also communicate freely with them, as well as with other avian creatures.
Additionally, having inherited Sylas's Parseltongue, they possessed an innate ability to converse with birds and serpents alike. Combined with their phoenix affinity, they were effectively natural "speakers of beasts," capable of understanding and interacting with a wide range of animals.
Naturally, Sylas did not forget his wife.
Drawing upon the bloodline of Arwen's mount, the flying horse, and using advanced biological alchemy, Sylas fused the traits of the Eldar, the Maiar's radiance, and a fragment of the Light of Eärendil. From this, he created the first true Unicorn of the Central Continent.
The unicorn was pure white as new-fallen snow, bearing a long, spiraled horn that gleamed with sacred brilliance. Its hooves shone with faint golden light, and its entire body radiated an aura of holiness that repelled darkness.
Unlike the unicorns known in the wizarding world, this creature possessed a pair of enormous white wings, allowing it to soar freely through the skies.
Arwen fell in love with the unicorn at first sight.
Not only was it beautiful and powerful, but it could discern the hearts of all living beings. It willingly approached the pure and kind, forming bonds with them, while showing unrelenting hostility toward evil.
Its horn possessed immense sacred power, capable of dispelling curses, neutralizing deadly poisons, and purifying dark magic. When used for healing, it could even restore those standing on the brink of death.
As for its blood, only Sylas, its creator, and Arwen, its master, could ever cause the unicorn to willingly offer it.
If anyone else attempted to take it by force, the blood would transform into a lethal curse, becoming a poison that killed instantly upon contact. Worse still, the victim's soul would be condemned, never finding rest.
At Arwen's request, Sylas created another pair of unicorns, a male and a female, and released them into the forests of Lórien, allowing them to live freely and reproduce.
The elves of Lórien adored these creatures.
They gathered berries to feed them, climbed the great mallorn trees to groom their shining coats, and sang ancient songs in their presence. Unicorns, shy and gentle by nature, allowed forest spirits, especially young Silvan maidens, to approach them closely.
It was not uncommon to see a young wood-elf girl resting beside a unicorn, humming softly while the creature listened with eyes half-closed, bathed in golden light.
Sometimes, unicorn and elf would walk together through the forest, hooves treading upon carpets of fallen golden leaves, perfectly harmonized with the land itself.
Under the elves' care, the unicorns flourished.
As generations passed, their offspring spread throughout the forest, becoming a symbol of Lórien itself. Long afterward, unicorns would appear in distant lands, fading into legend as magic slowly retreated from the world.
As the ages turned, magic waned.
More and more elves departed the Central Continent, sailing west from the Grey Havens toward Valinor. In the far east, lands once shared by elves and men gradually became realms of humankind. Some elves vanished into ancient forests, never to be seen again.
Others fled westward as well, driven by the lingering shadow of Sauron.
With many powerful hostile forces already eliminated, the journey became relatively safe and smooth as the refugees reached the vicinity of the Misty Mountain Range. Numerous Silvan elves, and others paused briefly within the forests of Lórien, where they were warmly welcomed by their queen, Arwen.
Some of them, deeply attached to the land of Middle-earth, ultimately chose to abandon the westward journey altogether. They remained in Lórien, taking it as their final sanctuary and formally becoming subjects of Queen Arwen.
There were, however, others, steadfast in heart, who stayed only briefly before continuing westward. After resting in Lórien, they resumed their journey toward Ash Harbor, departing the Central Continent by ship for Valinor.
For those elves determined to sail west, Arwen, known among the elves as the Queen of the Hidden Realms, generously provided assistance. Using the Floo Network, she allowed them to travel directly to Ash Harbor, sparing them the long, perilous journey across land.
Meanwhile, the once-gloomy Great Forest, now largely abandoned, gradually declined. Elves departed one after another, answering the call of the West. Only King Legolas remained, guarding the forest in solitude. Without elven care, and lacking the sustaining power, the forest inevitably withered, slowly becoming no more than an ordinary woodland.
Likewise, Radagast, the brown-robed wizard dwelling deep within the Great Forest, chose not to return to Valinor. Instead, he abandoned the world of great affairs, remaining behind to live among beasts and plants, befriending nature until the end of his days.
As for the Five Wizards who had come to Middle-earth, the two Blue Wizards, Alatar and Pallando, who resided in the Far East, also remained. Their mission was not yet complete, for the remnants of Morgoth's and Sauron's influence in the eastern lands had yet to be fully eradicated.
At the same time, profound changes were unfolding at Hogwarts.
Within the lands surrounding Hogwarts, it became increasingly clear that wizards and ordinary people, though living upon the same soil, naturally formed two distinct societies. Sylas, whose long-dormant gift of prophecy had begun to stir once more, foresaw a distant future in which conflict would arise between magical and non-magical peoples.
Though this future lay far beyond his own time in Middle-earth, Sylas chose to act early.
Under his guidance, the wizarding world and the mundane world were formally and completely separated. Wizards gradually withdrew from mortal affairs, much like the elves before them, concealing themselves from the conflicts of ordinary humanity.
The Ministry of Magic, Diagon Alley, and the wider wizarding community were all hidden beneath powerful enchantments, vanishing from the sight of ordinary people and forming a self-contained realm.
Within the territory governed by Hogwarts, two parallel systems of governance emerged.
The Ministry of Magic governed the wizarding world, drafting laws, regulating magical conduct, and strictly forbidding harm to ordinary people. Meanwhile, the mundane population was ruled by its own civil government.
Each system elected its own leader: a Minister of Magic for wizards, and a Mayor for ordinary people. Both were elected by their respective populations, serving non-renewable terms of ten years at most.
Throughout this entire transformation, Sylas remained almost entirely hidden behind the scenes. Using powerful magic, he concealed Hogwarts itself so thoroughly that no one, save professors and students, could even approach its vicinity.
Wizards, after all, were always a minority.
Despite encouragement toward larger families, the total wizarding population stabilized at around fifty thousand. Once that threshold was reached, it could not grow further.
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