#(we ignore the incident with the silver paint pen - I got cocky and live to regret it)

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Nibenaes and Niphredilien Carnistiriel for Day 1 of @tolkienocweek

Nibenaes and Niphredilien, born five ages apart, are the two daughters of Caranthir Fëanorion.

Nibenaes was born in Beleriand to Haleth of the Haladin and Caranthir Fëanorion, and chose to live as an elf, dying to one of Sauron's servants attempting to assassinate King Gil-Galad in the late Second Age. She was reborn in the Fifth Age in Valinor once she had healed as much as she could in Mandos where she met her sister.

Niphredilien was born in the early fifth age to an unknown elven woman and the Maia Celusindi in Valinor in the early Fifth Age. She was abandoned by her bearer in a patch of Niphredils by Celusindi's river where she was found and adopted by Caranthir.

The sisters met when Niphredilien was just over her majority, a day after Nibenaes was reborn. There was initial frigidity between them as Nibenaes saw her sister as a replacement for a daughter who had been far from perfect, and Niphredilien saw her sister as the child Caranthir had always been remembering when he looked at her.

However, Nibenaes and Niphredilien came to see each other in a different light after a storm left them stranded together in the middle of a forest and they became firm friends in later ages, coming to be proud to call each other sister.

#I am incredibly pleased with this #I do so love Ibrithir's design for Nibenaes so that's what I used for her #and although Niphredilien isn't perfect I do still love this design for her #(we ignore the incident with the silver paint pen - I got cocky and live to regret it)