Talk:Varyyn/@comment-35059467-20180325021256/@comment-43973006-20200408000835

They were originally humans who evolved over time and were enhanced by drinking the silvery sap of the great tree of  Elyys'tel (that the catalysts drink to manipulate the dimensional boundaries so they can enter the prismatic dimension and retrieve the islands heart)

Uqzhaal says in book 2 chapter seven regarding the sap, "Our ancestors were the first to partake of it. Over time the revelations of the sap changed our people, making us as we are today."