Collaborative Setting: Faeries

[Land Outcast]

The Jacks are chosen by a complex and arcane process which no mortal can understand. (read: the town fool, a murderous assassin, a studious acolyte, a child, even a woodcutter can be a Jack. To be a Jack doesn't necessarily mean to want to be a Jack.)

 

[FreeXenon]

Wits Boon

Wits - Mortals of great talent, granted a 'boon' by the fae

Some Wits extort their their boon or take it via magical rites.

Some Wits are granted their boon as as reward for servitude, they bear fae lineage, or just because a given fae thinks they are cool or useful.

 

[gavagai]

No, this sort of thing really drives these settings. I like!


Humans, as a general rule, don't believe in the existence of faeries, even when being drafted into some insane quest or another. And yet their lands are the only places where the Savreal trees grow.

The Goblinoids think that the humans may be useful tools to turn the tide in the conflict against the fae. If only they can be manipulated to do the right things, without giving them too much dangerous knowledge

 

[Land Outcast]

The Goblinoids think that the humans may be useful tools to turn the tide in the conflict against the fae. If only they can be manipulated to do the right things, without giving them too much dangerous knowledge

Dangerous knowledge such as: Savrael is harmful to creatures from the Dream Realm (including goblinkin).
Therefore they can't simply command humans to plant Savrael, but they can suggest so spread them near fey locales.

 

[Twiggly the Gnome]

The ruler of the Winter Court is the Snow Queen. Her most faithful servants are the fey creatures known as Icemaidens. The mortal champions of the Winter Court are often called Frost Jacks.

 

[Doug McCrae]

A spriggan has usurped the throne of the Autumn Court

 

[awayfarer]

Sprites: Sprites are mischievious, often evil fae that enjoy suffering.

Grigs: Insane creatures that lure victims away from safe places by playing strange, horrid magic on their fiddles. One grig paralyzes the victim with a song while other grigs slowly saw the victim apart over many hours. They tend to live near sawmills or any area with sharp tools. Grigs will kill anything if they've been bored for a while. The frequent murder of even other fae has caused them to be outcasts even among their own kind.

Nixies: In a bizarre twist, nixies make small hooks of coral and nets out of reeds. They "cast" their lines on shore and wait for something to show interest. If something hooks itself on a nixies line (often it is baited with a small bauble or bit of food), the nixie drags the creature underwater to drown. They do this not for sustenance, but amusement. Thankfully they are too weak to pull in anything other than small animals or the smallest of children.

Pixies: Pixies delight in causing insanity. Typically, a pixie will choose one human target to reveal itself to repeatedly. The pixie shows the target insane or blood-curdling images, always being sure to stay out of sight of those who are not it's current victim. Pixies often spend years between victims, making it difficult to determine when they will next strike.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Ælfin

The most arcanely powerful of the Fey and progenitors of Elves (their sad, fallen Changeling children). Ælfinkind are currently ascendant in political power among the Fey-
the current King and Queen of Ælfinkind are Obryn and Titaanye, and they have appointed many of their kin to baronies, etc.

While very elflike in general appearance, each has animalistic or plantlike features that become more pronounced over time (use Geomancer Drift charts).

 

[shurai]

The King of Summer, in contrast to the Winter Queen's austere court, rules from an island near the world's equator -- perpetually summer, like a great festival, with games on the lawns once a week at noon. The Sovereign of the Cup, they call him, for he always has a cup of golden summerwine.

 

[Land Outcast]

(if we are going to steal from Will, couldn't we just use Oberon and Titania?)