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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormborn" data-source="post: 2195280" data-attributes="member: 14041">I agree, but to expand a bit:  One of the later explinations of the fey, that tie to Christianity, is  that they are the 3rd part of the forces of heaven.  A group that neither fell with Lucifer in the rebellion nor sided with Michael in the War in Heaven.  They were exiled, but not sent to a place of punishment.  They continue in a place between worlds, which was orginally a territory of Hell and thus they must pay a tithe to Hell to keep it.  From which you get stories/songs like Tam Lin. There orginally celestian nature means that sometimes they act demonic, other times angelic, depending on the "rules" (as was said previously) that they follow.  And almost without exception they do follow some set of rules.Now apply this to the DnD world.  If the Demons/Devils were servants of the gods that rebelled, and perhaps then even had a split in their own ranks between C and L, and the various good outsiders are the ones who continue to serve the gods, then the Fey could be spirits that remained neutral in that split.  Some of them might carry on their ancient duties of guarding nature, but others may no longer care about allegiances to beings that generally ignore them, so the behave as they wish, but bound in part to their "programming."   Place them in a setting with lots of Divine Conflict and you have a perfect set of allies/enemies/patrons/foils for the PCs depening on their own allegiances (and in this case allegiance superceeds allignment, not evey LG being is on the same side after all, less so for other allignments.)  In asian mythology there is the idea of the kami, manifestations of a place, thing, creature, or idea.  Fey in western folk lore aren't exactly that, but have some of the same connections.  They might be used as such in a campaign.</blockquote>

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