SIDHE is an Irish word, pronounced "shee". It comes from the old Irish name for the ancient mounds that dot the Irish countryside, and for the people said to live beneath them.
The people of the mounds
In Irish legend, an older race once ruled the island. When newcomers arrived, they did not leave. They withdrew into the hills and mounds and into a world that lies alongside our own. The Irish called them the aos sí, the people of the mounds. The word survives in English in "banshee", from the Irish for "woman of the mounds".
Tír na nÓg, the Land of the Young
Their world has many names. The best known is Tír na nÓg, the Land of the Young, a place where nobody ages and time does not run as it does here. In the most famous story, the hero Oisín follows a woman of that world across the sea and stays for what feels like three years. When he rides home, three hundred have passed and everyone he knew is gone.
Why we chose it
Most fantasy games borrow from the same few sources. Irish myth is older than most of them, far less used, and it comes with a complete world: its own landscapes, its own rules and its own dangers. It is beautiful and it is not safe, which is what a survival game needs.
SIDHE takes players into that world. Everything in it starts from the legends, and we are building the rest with care.
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