The first sentence is a quote about how they have ancient knowledge, the second sentence describes them as a newly arisen race... I think when this book came out that is exactly as far as I got with them before flipping to the feats to see if there was something dumpster diveable. This looks like the kind of crap Gwendolyn Kestrel comes up with, and she is listed as a design contributor for the book, so that's probably it.
The basic design space they were working in was to introduce a race that had an inherent buff slot that they got to prepare something in each day. The buff slots are filled with bullshit, and I think pretty much everyone just takes the bonus to initiative and scouting skills every day. But actually, I don't think it's a bad idea. Especially if you had the buff slots be roughly balanced or geared towards really different classes, you could go a long way with that sort of thing. If you could pick the "Elvish Thing" you were awesome at each day, you wouldn't need so many fucking Elvish subraces to cover everything.
Anyway, the original Killoren fills up three fucking pages because of the late period 3.5 shovelware formatting. Eleven lines of text are dedicated to the "Lands" subheading, which begins with the sentence "As yet, the Killoren claim no lands of their own." It's actually kind of amazing in a way. In 4th edition, they were called "Wilden," possibly for copyright reasons, possibly to distance themselves from Kelly Killoren the model after she did a Playboy spread. Moving forward, the Wilden name should be used by preference I should think. Regardless of the hows and whys, they really have to choose between being a new race created by the Feywilds to defend itself from invaders and having ancient secrets and power. Personally, I'd go with the brand new deal, because ancient power is rock type. They can keep the "potentially different aspect each day" thing, but they need new aspects that don't make me want to shit myself so I have something to throw.
The physical description is also totally at odds with itself. I mean, they tell me that they look like Half Elves, and then they have this as their picture:
![Image](http://38.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mahbjbqzUu1rzz8qfo1_400.jpg)
That doesn't look a fucking thing like a Half Elf.
They can either have green skin and twig antlers or they can look like Half Elves. They can't do both.
So... when people say they want a Killoren writeup, do they really mean that they want a less-sucky version of the 4e Wilden? Or do they want more of a Half-Elf Fey type thing?
-Username17