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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 9786406" data-attributes="member: 6779196">I very much like the idea of fae time blindness. I mean, any immortal creature should struggle to understand mortal timescales, right? In a lot of ways, human social systems are built around the exchange of time, as the only resource that can never be recovered once lost. A being that has an unlimited amount of this resource would be deeply alien to us, and so many social behaviors would be confusing to them.Fae and contracts have a long and storied history together, so I’m onboard with them being very important. And I see what you’re going for when separating them from devils by making them not necessarily misleading, but I do think misunderstanding the terms of an agreement with the fae is an iconic trope one wouldn’t want to lose. Where I would differentiate it is that a devil’s contract is misleading because the devil is so intimately familiar with the conventions of contracts that they can cleverly hide loopholes and exploit technicalities. Whereas I feel like the misleading nature of a fae contract is more likely to arise out of naivety than out of intentional deception. Where the devil tricks you into agreeing to terms you didn’t fully understand, it never even occurred to the faerie queen that you wouldn’t know what she meant when she asked if she could “have your name.”</blockquote>