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<blockquote data-quote="Riley37" data-source="post: 6548865" data-attributes="member: 6786839">A traveller encounters a lord of the Seelie Court. The traveller enters a romantic union, marries the lord, and says &quot;I do&quot;, swearing to cherish, honor and obey. The marriage oath, in this case, is also a warlock pact, because the fey lord's magical power rubs off (so to speak) on the mortal. (See also: Polgara and Durnik in the Belgariad.) Having stumbled into this pact, the mortal joins the Seelie Court (&quot;thy people shall be my people&quot;, as Ruth said), follows its rules and becomes one of its defenders, possibly risking their life to fend off Unseelie attacks... while also insatiably seeking to know the husband/patron/lord and his ways ever better.(This was written as background for a LG Warlock, not as a 50 Shades of Gandalf the Grey.)The traveller then conceives a child, who grows up in the Seelie Court, inheriting the pact.If the fey lord in question is Corellon Larethian, then that child grows up as a half-divine-elf warlock.(Though did Corellon or the traveller bear the child? Do elven pregnancies take 9 months? But that's a different question.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Riley37, post: 6548865, member: 6786839"] [COLOR=#000000]A traveller encounters a lord of the Seelie Court. The traveller enters a romantic union, marries the lord, and says "I do", swearing to cherish, honor and obey. The marriage oath, in this case, is also a warlock pact, because the fey lord's magical power rubs off (so to speak) on the mortal. (See also: Polgara and Durnik in the Belgariad.) Having stumbled into this pact, the mortal joins the Seelie Court ("thy people shall be my people", as Ruth said), follows its rules and becomes one of its defenders, possibly risking their life to fend off Unseelie attacks... while also insatiably seeking to know the husband/patron/lord and his ways ever better. [/COLOR] (This was written as background for a LG Warlock, not as a 50 Shades of Gandalf the Grey.) [COLOR=#000000]The traveller then conceives a child, who grows up in the Seelie Court, inheriting the pact. If the fey lord in question is [/COLOR]Corellon Larethian[COLOR=#000000], then that child grows up as a half-divine-elf warlock. (Though did Corellon or the traveller bear the child? Do elven pregnancies take 9 months? But that's a different question.)[/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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