The Liliferiae

The Liliferiae (not to be confused with Lilyfairies) is a cult of elf to kazena transspecialists founded by Analena of Verden in. The ideals of this cult are "to be completely indistinguishable from cisspecies Kazena." The cult aims to achieve this through education about Kazena behaviour and ways of life as well as offering conversion treatments to look the part. They only accept elven members, even half elves are excluded, but there is some dissension about this amongst the cult's leadership. The cult has a strong focus on conversion treatments and is best known amongst elf to kazena transspecialists for just that.

Conversion treatments
Healing mages and herbalists in the cult are continually working on improving several treatments that allow someone to physically resemble a Kazena person. Many of these treatments are quite unhealthy and damaging to those who undertake it. Full conversion often drastically reduces life expectancy and should not be undertaken at all by elves over 50. '[Meta: Fully converted elf-to-kazena transspecialists often die at age 55 instead of their usual life expectancy of ~120. This has not been observed yet as most members join the cult and convert before the age of 20.]'

Blood tea skin reddening
If ingested in extreme excess, dried bloodsnake weed can turn one's skin red. Red skin is one of the most distinguishing features of a Kazena person and is therefore very desirable in transspecialists. Analena of Verden first saw the potential of dried bloodsnake weed overdose in conversion therapy. Sharing this knowledge is partly what prompted her to erect the cult. Since the taste of dried bloodsnake weed is disliked by most people, it is usually used together with tea leaves when brewing tea. Many Liliferiae claim that "it is an acquired taste" and switch to pure dried bloodsnake weed tea after a while. Tea infused with dried bloodsnake weed at a level where it will cause reddening of the skin is often shortened to "blood tea" as it is colored violently red. Three cups of blood tea per day is the minimum dose to cause reddening of the skin according to the Liliferiae. The lower the dose, the better the end result. This part of the conversion treatments is the most damaging to the body and reduces life expectancy the most. If a high dose of blood tea is consumed, the reddening is onset way earlier, but it may end up uneven and almost always causes flaky skin. After the desired skintone is achieved, which takes about a year with the recommended low dose, the dosage should be reduced to one cup of strong blood tea every two weeks to ensure the skintone does not fade and remains looking as natural as possible. Blood tea has spread to other groups of elf to kazena Transspecialists as well, but blood tea prepared by Liliferiae is less unhealthy than generic product due to the Liliferiae's expertise with this part.

Kah-Afaz pollen eye yellowing
If red skin is the most distinguishing feature of a Kazena, yellow eyes is second. Turning white eyes yellow in only the right place is difficult, but the Liliferiae have found a good way to do this. Pollen of the Kah-Afaz are used as an extremely strong yellow dye around Lya ri-renad, Delvaruud and Al Jafejran. It is often mixed with flour or white dye to make handling the dye easier, but only pure Kah-Afaz pollen can be used to yellow eyes. The pollen must be of high quality and gently picked, as there may be no particles included. Particles of sand and such can cause irritation and damage to the eye. This is also why dye with additives cannot be used. To yellow one's eyes with Kah-Afaz pollen, the pollen must be mixed with vinegar and then applied directly to the eye, avoiding the pupil. This hurts a lot and is often descibed as the most painful conversion treatment. After the pain has subsided, the eyes are often quite yellow and look a lot like real Kazena eyes. Sometimes the treatment must be repeated, but almost never more than twice. A light additive round of treatment can be used on the iris to obscure it further, though this is risky as it might accidentally tint the lens in front of the pupil as well, which is undesirable.

Horn creation
Most kazena also have horns, though their appearance differs greatly. Some horns are long, hard and nail like, some are short, soft and fleshy. The Liliferiae use different treatments to grow horns depending on the desired effect. All of these treatments are quite painful however. The horns of a Kazena are more often than not indicative of the person's character. This is something most kazena do not actually know about, but a detail that can make the difference between passing as a real Kazena or not. Most processes technically allow the horns to redden along with the skin, so this treatment is usually performed first.

Horn Grafting
Horn grafting is used when hard, nail like horns are desired. This option is most popular with men. This treatment involves cutting circular holes in the skin of the head where the horns should attach and sticking horns cut off an animal with a little flesh remaining into these holes. The skin must be released a bit and moulded over the horns. The horns must now be stuck down in place with glue. Some low-intensity restoration magic must be used to heal the area. If the horns are fresh enough and the restoration magic applied correctly, the skin should fuse with the horns, keeping them alive and in place. In some cases, skin reddening will cause the horns to turn red as well, but most of the time the horns must be painted an appropriate color.

Glue Moulding
Glue moulding is used when soft, fleshy horns are desired. The process is quite simple but takes a relatively long time to complete. Horns are formed in the desired shape with transfiguration magic. To make the horns stay, the horns are covered in a very strong glue to keep the skin taught when the transfiguration ends. A small hole must be made at the top of the formed skin between the meat and the skin. One must the blow into this small hole to tear the skin and meat apart from one another. The meat snaps back to the skull and the skin is still held up because of the glue. The created cavity must be filled with a material to hold the skin up. For a harder texture, glue or wax can be used. More often than not though, the horns are preferrably more squishy and fleshy. In this case, the horn cavities are often filled with molten tallow, only after adding a layer of glue to make sure the skin does not separate any further. Afterwards low-intensity skin restoration magic can be used, or the skin can be allowed to heal naturally. The glue structure will come off when the skin renews itself, which only starts happening again when the skin has stretched sufficiently. Tallow filled glue moulded horns are often completely indistinguishable from fleshy kazena horns, which makes this the most preferred treatment.

Transfiguration setting potions
Transfiguration setting potions provide the best results while being the most expensive treatment. This involves drinking a selective transfiguration setting potion after skin transfiguration of the horns has been completed. This allows for great control over the shape and look of the horns. This treatment causes no pain besides some tenderness of the horns. Selective transfirguration setting potions are extremely hard to make though, and involve very expensive ingrediënts. Liliferiae alchemists have created and successfully applied this treatment before. It is often reserved for special or exalted members. Analena of Verden has had her horns formed by using a transfiguration setting potion. Though powerful, this treatment can only be used to create fleshy, skin covered horns.

Tail creation
Since only a part of the Kazena population actually has a tail, many elf to kazena transspecialists choose not to have a tail created. If desired, this can be done though. To create a convincing tail, the only treatment that will work is transfiguration setting. This is the only way to create a tail with muscles that can be controlled. A lifeless tail is a sign of weakness among the kazena, so its functionality is very important.

Fang formation
Forming fangs is quite difficult but they are an important detail that could uncover a passing elf to kazena transspecialist easily. The treatment is not quite painful but very uncomfortable and not easy to get right. The treatment the Liliferiae use most often goes as follows: the recipient must lay down and drink small doses of a bone gellification potion to make the bone slightly malleable. Milk has to be rubbed into the fangs to add some mass, putting milk on them and using very low intensity healing magic can fuse the milk and the teeth. This has to be repeated several times to create the mass required for strong but long teeth. When the mass is sufficient, the fangs are drawn out and formed back into realistic looking teeth. The bone's malleability needs to be spot on for this process to turn out right, something that is hard to achieve. The shaping and smoothing of the teeth needs to go on continually while the bone gellification potion's effect wears off, this allows for the fangs to be given smaller and smaller detail and corrections as the teeth harden. At the end, the teeth can be polished using a little milk and a soft cloth. After the procedure, the recipient needs to get used to their fangs and might hurt themselves the first few weeks. They will also ache while the body tries to restore blood supply to the core of the tooth. When this is done, though, the fangs will be fully indistinguishable and as strong as a kazena's, provided the formation was successful of course.

Aphrodisation
Kazena are known to be quite sexual, something that is key to their behavior. Since most elves are relatively very averse to sex, especially the way kazena view it, it may be quite uncomfortable for elves to act the part and be as sexual as a real kazena. Even elf to kazena transspecials often find this part hard without any treatment. The easiest way is to simply keep topped off on a low intensity aphrodesiac. Many choose to microdose Dormeia's carnal craving concoction because of its ties to kazena culture, though any aphrodesiac will do. Many transspecial kazena choose to end up slightly less sexual than most true kazena to keep attention off of them, in fear that they might be found out. Being not sexual enough is also a danger though, since this is a strong indicator for kazena of impurity and might actually increase attention to a transspecial kazena's details.

Apostates
The Liliferiae know a very low apostate count, though some have existed. Because of the Kazena's ruthlessness concerning apostates from their religion, the Liliferiae see fit to silence apostates by all means possible. Apostates are considered outlaws and often end up killed within the first few days. Because the Liliferiae are quite welcoming, accepting and above all important for many Elf to Kazena transspecialists. Most of them consider being a member a privilege and "saving grace".

Lilifairy
Lilifairy is a name devised by people outside of the cult for Liliferiae cultists. This name is sometimes, but not always, used derogatorily and is not only used to denote Liliferiae cultists. The name is also used when talking about Elf to kazena transspecialists that are not Liliferiae cultists per say and occasionally also for transspecialists in general. This name is not recognised by the cult as an acceptable way to address cultists because of it's negative connotations.

Many Elf to Kazena- or other transspecialists that "own" their being transspecial and do not actively try to hide it embrace the name and often use it to describe themselves. Though general transspecialists use the word lilifairy as well, it is less popular among them, because most people assume Lilifairies to be Elf to Kazena transspecialists.