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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kigmatzomat" data-source="post: 1760768" data-attributes="member: 9254">Mercedes Lackey has a number of takes on the Fae.  IIRC, Fiddler Faire has a very fickle Fae court, Born to Run is a modern take on Fae, and I know she's got others.  I'd also recommend the "Wiz Biz" series by Rick Cooke.  The fae should be dangerous, fickle, and proud beyond all sense or reason.  They should seem sociopathically cold 99% of the time and their rare displays of emotions should be histrionics of biblical proportion.  Different stories have music being a way to defeat the fae since it can make them emotional and prone to making mistakes.  Realize that the grigs, pixies, dryands, nymphs, etc are lesser fae compared to the Sidhe, much like a goblin is to a hobgoblin, and the Sidhe nobles should be comparable to forces of nature.  I actually posted an idea for a similar campaign t'other day where "the elven people" are the human changelings raised Underhill by the Seelie and not true Sidhe and orcs are the descendants of corrupted human servants of the Seelie court.  This helped explain the elves/orcs/humans interbreeding issues since they're all humans.  Orcs have forgotten this, but retain the Unseelie hatred of all things Seelie while the elves have tried to keep it a secret.</blockquote>