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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8498167" data-attributes="member: 6790260">One thing I always try to keep in mind with fey and fey-like beings: giving them motivations that are kinda-sorta understandable if you squint.My go-to example for fey is usually a beauty-centric blue-and-orange morality. That is, to them, evaluating an action based on whether it is altruistic/noble/virtuous/etc. vs selfish/wicked/vicious/etc. is silly or even confusing; instead, actions that are beautiful, aesthetic, or dramatic are &quot;good&quot; and those that are ugly, merely functional, or pedestrian are &quot;evil.&quot; The beauty of an action is its justification. As a friend of mine just mentioned tonight in a discussion about the fey, these are a people who will ask the musicians at a party to keep playing nonstop, even if it causes one of them to drop dead from exhaustion--and the musicians will willingly do it, because beauty justifies such acts.So consider an event or discussion that might not even necessarily be intended as a trial, but becomes one because the players need to &quot;think like a fey&quot; in order to succeed. If it's an actual trial/test/prank/etc., letting beauty lie orthogonal to both good and evil as mortals understand it could be expressed in various ways, for example, &quot;solving&quot; a love triangle by killing one of the rivals in a suitably dramatic fashion is just as good a solution as finding the rival a new lover and pressing a dramatic rejection from them, but sitting down and working through all the emotions logically would be horribly offensive (because it's boring and functional rather than exciting and beautiful). If it's not at all intended to be a trial, have it demonstrate the (presumably) friendly-but-alien characteristics of the fey. E.g. they base their treatment of the party members on how stylishly they're dressed (treating the un-stylish ones as suspicious or &quot;bad&quot;) or are casual about the death of an &quot;ugly&quot; sapient being but become distraught over accidentally causing damage to a random, beautiful flower.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 8498167, member: 6790260"] One thing I always try to keep in mind with fey and fey-like beings: giving them motivations that are kinda-sorta understandable if you squint. My go-to example for fey is usually a beauty-centric blue-and-orange morality. That is, to them, evaluating an action based on whether it is altruistic/noble/virtuous/etc. vs selfish/wicked/vicious/etc. is silly or even confusing; instead, actions that are beautiful, aesthetic, or dramatic are "good" and those that are ugly, merely functional, or pedestrian are "evil." The beauty of an action is its justification. As a friend of mine just mentioned tonight in a discussion about the fey, these are a people who will ask the musicians at a party to keep playing nonstop, even if it causes one of them to drop dead from exhaustion--and the musicians will [I]willingly[/I] do it, because beauty justifies such acts. So consider an event or discussion that might not even necessarily be intended as a trial, but [I]becomes[/I] one because the players need to "think like a fey" in order to succeed. If it's an actual trial/test/prank/etc., letting beauty lie orthogonal to both good and evil as mortals understand it could be expressed in various ways, for example, "solving" a love triangle by killing one of the rivals in a suitably dramatic fashion is just as good a solution as finding the rival a new lover and pressing a dramatic rejection from them, but sitting down and working through all the emotions logically would be horribly offensive (because it's [I]boring[/I] and [I]functional[/I] rather than [I]exciting[/I] and [I]beautiful[/I]). If it's not at all intended to be a trial, have it demonstrate the (presumably) friendly-but-alien characteristics of the fey. E.g. they base their treatment of the party members on how stylishly they're dressed (treating the un-stylish ones as suspicious or "bad") or are casual about the death of an "ugly" sapient being but become distraught over accidentally causing damage to a random, beautiful flower. [/QUOTE]

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