Possibly working on a fey book; need help

[Kerrick]

Every time someone asks "what do YOU want to see?" the book of fey pops up. I'm bored; I've got nothing better to do with my time right now, and I've run out of things to work on, so I thought I'd take up the gauntlet and do a netbook on fey. This will be a FREE netbook - all OGC, no cost, available from our website for download. I've already done a bunch, which you can find here.

What I'm looking for is sources. I've done a little searching on the net, and most of what I've found is vague references to things and what they can do. Unfortunately, all the public libraries in our county were shut down a few months ago due to lack of funding, so I can't go there and look for something (though they might be coming back in Novemeber!) - I'm limited to the net for the time being.

For the book itself, I'd like to do the two courts - the noble, High Court, fey and the "commoner", Low Court fey*, along with the sluagh and various other entities that don't fit in either court. I want to do the "old fey" - the ones who are way above human concerns, who are effectively immortal, who live in their land of Faerie and can only be accessed from the mortal realm through their faerie mounds during certain times.

*Or Court of Light and Court of Darkness - I've seen a few different takes on this in fiction, but I'd like to stay away from those influences as much as possible.

So... anyone have some good sources I can raid for information?

 

[Nylanfs]

Faries by Dragon Wing (formerly Bastion Press). This is one of the most comprehensive info I have found for using fey in a campaign.

 

[Tonguez]

get a hold of Raven Crowking (he's got an awesome fey thread in House Rules) he shouldbe a big help...

 

[Zurai]

I can't give you any specific references, but I would suggest doing research in Celtic mythology. The concept of the fey, at least in the aspect you seem to be interested in, originated with them.

As a side note - I'd be personally interested in a Banshee as they are mythologically. The original name for a banshee is bain sidhe - Sidhe being the Celtic "elder fey" of the Seelie and Unseelie courts. Each family had their own bain sidhe, and to hear one's voice was to know that death was approaching for someone in the family.

Somehow that got twisted into a ghostly undead that howls and kills people with its voice.

 

[Kerrick]

get a hold of Raven Crowking (he's got an awesome fey thread in House Rules) he shouldbe a big help...

Got a link? I can't use search.

As a side note - I'd be personally interested in a Banshee as they are mythologically. The original name for a banshee is bain sidhe - Sidhe being the Celtic "elder fey" of the Seelie and Unseelie courts. Each family had their own bain sidhe, and to hear one's voice was to know that death was approaching for someone in the family.

Somehow that got twisted into a ghostly undead that howls and kills people with its voice.

It's not much of a stretch, really. I also found references to the bain sidhe as related to the "washer woman" - I forget the name, but she could be found by a stream before the day of a battle washing the clothes of the men who would die that day.

 

[Aus_Snow]

Got a link? I can't use search.

Here ya go:

http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=86637

I would just wait for him to post instead, but I don't see him around atm. So.

pantheon.org is useful for general info. Not fey-specific, but who knows. It might have something.

 

[RSKennan]

I wrote The Complete Guide to Fey. It's really a toolkit for building fey, using classes, feats and levels, but if you ignore the fluff, there are a few prebuilt fey (along with creatures that are attracted to fey) in there that might be useful.

 

[amethal]

I wrote The Complete Guide to Fey. It's really a toolkit for building fey, using classes, feats and levels, but if you ignore the fluff, there are a few prebuilt fey (along with creatures that are attracted to fey) in there that might be useful.

That's a great book. I highly recommmend it to anyone interested in fey.

And of course WotC will never publish anything similar, because (understandably) they want you to buy their fey rather than make your own.

 

[Raven Crowking]

I would be happy to donate the use of my fey materials here on EN World, and I have a few more materials as well. You can email me at ravencrowking at hotmail dot com. All I would ask in return is that I be properly credited for my work (Daniel J. Bishop).

RC