Fae
The Fae, also called Faeries or the Fair Folk are outsiders native to the Fey Realms which are ruled by their "noble caste", the True Fey.
They are an almost bizarrely diverse group but also most often stereotyped as being flighty, capricious, everchanging and truly strange with their temperament varying between ultimately benevolent and helpful for no apparent reason and malicious, cruel and downright murderous.
They are said to change between these stances with no understandable rhyme or reason, one moment aiding the sapient beings of the Prime World Disk and the next damning the poor fool that came across them to death or worse: unimaginable suffering and pain.
The Fae range in the level of their power from the lowly minor sprites to the terrifying and godlike power of the True Fey who rule their kind as fickle tyrants, caring regents or both.
The Fae are most often described as being spirit beings of an elemental nature though distinct from the true elementals of the Elemental Realms with the Fae embodying the pseudo-kinetic shifts and movements of elemental forces rather than those forces themselves.
There are said to be Faeries of the Wind, Waves, Earthquakes which inhabit the Fey Realms and at times spill into the wild places of the Prime World Disk where the barrier between Realms is especially weak.
The people of the Sunless Depths have a number of superstitions regarding the fair folk; for example it is said that they are wily tricksters that will attempt to force hapless fools into servitude by way of contract.
The Fae may offer an exhausted traveller refreshments taking the guise of an ordinary person and then ferry them off into undying service in the Fey Realms as the contractual payment for the food and drink the traveller accepted not knowing the catch.
According to some myths there are also others among the fair folk, less tempestuos and capricious, with whom one can deal on fair grounds; some say that these are what the Eldtruth-Kept call Vindvættr, Landtvættr and Særvættr and whom they deal with and worship.
They are an almost bizarrely diverse group but also most often stereotyped as being flighty, capricious, everchanging and truly strange with their temperament varying between ultimately benevolent and helpful for no apparent reason and malicious, cruel and downright murderous.
They are said to change between these stances with no understandable rhyme or reason, one moment aiding the sapient beings of the Prime World Disk and the next damning the poor fool that came across them to death or worse: unimaginable suffering and pain.
The Fae range in the level of their power from the lowly minor sprites to the terrifying and godlike power of the True Fey who rule their kind as fickle tyrants, caring regents or both.
The Fae are most often described as being spirit beings of an elemental nature though distinct from the true elementals of the Elemental Realms with the Fae embodying the pseudo-kinetic shifts and movements of elemental forces rather than those forces themselves.
There are said to be Faeries of the Wind, Waves, Earthquakes which inhabit the Fey Realms and at times spill into the wild places of the Prime World Disk where the barrier between Realms is especially weak.
The people of the Sunless Depths have a number of superstitions regarding the fair folk; for example it is said that they are wily tricksters that will attempt to force hapless fools into servitude by way of contract.
The Fae may offer an exhausted traveller refreshments taking the guise of an ordinary person and then ferry them off into undying service in the Fey Realms as the contractual payment for the food and drink the traveller accepted not knowing the catch.
According to some myths there are also others among the fair folk, less tempestuos and capricious, with whom one can deal on fair grounds; some say that these are what the Eldtruth-Kept call Vindvættr, Landtvættr and Særvættr and whom they deal with and worship.
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