Character & Origin Story

This song began long before a melody or lyric appeared. Its seed was planted when my granddaughter, Avery Harper, was four years old. One afternoon, she wandered through the house with that bright, knowing presence children sometimes carry, as if they remember things we have forgotten.

She stopped in the hallway and announced that she was playing hide-and-seek… with a Green Elf.

I looked around and, of course, saw nothing. But Avery excitedly asked if I could help her find her Green Elf friend. Jumping into the game as Grandfathers do, I suggested we might catch her Green Elf on our videotaping while we searched other rooms. I set up my video camera, and together we continued her game searching room to room. On the recording that followed, a soft green orb of light moved through the air, almost playfully, drifting just beyond where we looked, as though it were the one hiding from us. We caught it on video.

After the camera was turned off, Avery continued to play with her Green Elf as naturally and joyfully as one plays with any dear companion. It was not a one-time occurrence. Over the years, this gentle visitor has appeared from time to time, as if their friendship never truly paused, only waited.

That moment stayed with me. Not as something strange. But as something true.

From that memory, a story slowly began to form in my imagination.

What if the Green Elf had not simply been visiting Avery? What if she had been looking for her? What if they had known one another long before Avery was born?

So in the story that grew from that green-lit afternoon, Avery is the Blue-Eyed Elven Princess, a bearer of memory and melody. Her songs open doorways to the worlds just beside this one, where love and wonder still shine.

The Great Elves speak in the old Gaelic tongues, of course, the languages of mist-bright hills, river-soft hearts, and music that seems to remember the first dawn.

So, this song is not merely about a child and a wandering emerald light.

It is about two sisters of the Heart-Kingdom: one who sings love into the world, and one who walks love into the world. It is a reminder that magic never left us. We simply grew taller than the doorway where we once knelt to see it.

And that is where the legend of the Sisters of the Earth begins.

Sisters of the Earth: The Green-Eyed Elf Princess Siúil a Rún and Her Sister, The Blue-Eyed Elf Princess Avery Harper

Once upon a time, not so long ago, in a land not so far away, and almost impossible for mortal man to reach, there lived the Green-Eyed Elf Princess. More beautiful than the sunrise, she was the fairest expression of Mother Earth’s love ever manifested upon this great world. Her true name was “Bana-phrionnsa Sìthiche nan Sùilean Uaine”, but to all of nature’s children she was known as ‘Siúil a Rún,’ a name understood in the Heart-Kingdom as ‘She Who Walks in Love.’ She was called this because she loved to walk among the wonders of the Earth Mother’s creation.

All creatures, great and small, adored her, for the Great Mother’s love shone from the radiant light that surrounded her. Yet “Siúil a Rún” was not the only princess. She had a sister whose eyes were as blue as the summer sky. Her name was “Bana-phrionnsa Sìthiche nan Sùilean Gorma”, the Blue-Eyed Elf Princess. But among the Elven family and the children of Nature, her mortal name carried a secret meaning: “She Who Sings Love.” She was called this because she loved to sing the Songs of the Earth Mother, healing the wounds of nature and praising the wonders of creation.

All Elven Princesses possess a mind of their own. Their independence and strong will are beloved by the Earth Mother, for who else could rule all of creation with fairness and grace while Holy Mother journeyed across the stars, creating new worlds and new life beyond imagining? Naturally, the Blue-Eyed Princess, unlike many before her, insisted on having a name suited to the mortal realm. She chose to be known as Avery Harper.

From her earliest days, while most Elves viewed mortals with wary eyes, distrusting them for the harm they had done to Mother Earth’s creations, Avery Harper saw deeper. She could sing even the fiercest human wanderers into peace as they passed through and near the Elven Kingdom. She loved the mortals, believing they, too, were the Earth Mother’s children.

One day, Avery shared with her sister “Siúil a Rún,” a wondrous plan: she wished to be born mortal. At first, “Siúil a Rún” objected, her tears falling like rain. The sorrow of an Elf Princess is no small thing, and her weeping shook all of nature that morning. Trees bowed, streams stilled, and birds flew to her aid, seeking to comfort her.

But Avery Harper gently wiped her sister’s tears and whispered that the Earth Mother herself had already granted her blessing. She would be born among the Children of Man, to guide them through her song and her light.

And so it came to pass, Avery Harper was born into a special family, blessed by a grandmother who possessed the Second Sight of the High Elves and had once been kissed by the Earth Mother’s own grace. There could have been no better home for “Bana-phrionnsa Sìthiche nan Sùilean Gorma”, the “Blue-Eyed Elf Princess” reborn.

Four years after Avery’s rebirth as a human, Siúil a Rún followed the familiar light of her sister across the veil and into the mortal world. There, in a house beside the great forest of human life, she found a little blue-eyed girl who could still see what grown people had forgotten how to see. When she looked into the child’s bright blue eyes, she recognized her sister at once. With joy beyond measure, she flew to her and danced around her in circles of emerald light.

In that instant, Avery remembered her sister, her promise, and the eternal love that binds all of creation. She remembered her promise to help the Children of Man remember through song and light.

Together, the two sisters joined their hearts once more, and from their reunion a new harmony was born, a vision of a world where all beings, mortal and immortal alike, might live together in peace, forever held within the love of the Earth Mother.