The Fair Folk

The Greater Magi of the Shadowlands – also known as the Daemons

“Up the airy mountain

Down the rushy glen

We dare not go a-hunting

For fear of little men.”

The Fairies, William Allingham

The Fair Folk are the mythic beings that wear human forms: Elves and Goblins and Gnomes. They are the keepers of Magick and will be teachers and patrons to human sorcerers. Often mistaken for Gods, the difference is that Fair Folk need no worship or offerings. The Fair Folk will normally trade or barter for their favor or their instruction. The Fair Folk may appear most human like, but they are not human. Like the Elders they are sympathetic to humans in the Shadowlands. But also like the Elders, their minds are alien and they do not see things as humans do.

The Types of Fair Folk

The Aelfen

These fair folk look noble but are treacherous. The fair folk come from the future and feed on the present. They can provide prophecy for a price.

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The Sheedr

The fair folk of the Dark. Beautiful, regal, treacherous and cold. Rumor says that they come from the future and feed upon the present.

• Learn more about the Sheedr
• The Darkened Court
• Independent Agents
  • Black Rock
  • Whip father
• The Broken
  • The Grey Locust
  • Harvester
  • Devourer

The Faidr

The fair folk of the Waxing, said to be of the future. They whisper that harvesting the present is necessary to keep wheel of time whole.

• Learn more about the Faidr
• The Twilight Rebels
• Independent Agents
  • Laughing Wind
  • Clawface Grin
• The Broken
  • Falsenight
  • The Eye Spider
  • Starheart

The Kobalen

The goblin folk look vile and scary but are just and kind. The goblin folk come from the past and give to the present. They will take messages to the past for a price.

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The Bogn

The fair folk of the Waning. Shriveled, squat, ugly, joyous and friendly. Hailing from the past, feeding past to present to bring the harvest.

• Learn more about the Bogn
• The Noonday Court
• Independent Agents
  • Wise Monster
• The Sold Ones
  • The Rice Spriggan

The Gobn

The fair folk of summer. They defend the present, sending aid from the past. It is said they can undo past mistakes.

• Learn more about the Gobn
• The Midnight Court
• Independent Agents
  • Sleeping Earth
• The Sold Ones
  • The Wheat Goblin

The Gnomon

The Gnomon are the Fair Folk of the present moment and of science. Xaokn are researchers. Saign are Educators. The Gnomon are always willing to help but tend to be oblivious to consequences and will help Locust forces just as readily.

The Xaokn

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• The Bonewood Court

The Saign

• Learn more about the Saign
• The Bone Shrine Court

The Locust Tainted Fair Folk

Not all of the Fair Folk retain their independence in the face of the spreading conquest of the Hungry Empire. As it devours everything, either assimilating or destroying whatever it encounters, many of the Fair Folk who once were are no more. And many more Fair Folk now hold forms unrecognizable to what they once were.

The Broken

The Broken are the Fair Folk, beings who were once part of the great Courts, corrupted and twisted into incomprehensible forms by the corruption of the Grey and the Locust King.

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• Former Sheedr
  • The Grey Locust
  • Harvester
  • Devourer
• Former Faidr
  • Falsenight
  • The Eye Spider
  • Starheart

The Lords of Eternal Summer

The Court of Eternal Summer is the Captive Court of the Locust King. They were once Aelfen and Kobalen, but no longer, the Lords of Eternal Summer are so twisted that they barely qualify as Fair Folk any longer.

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The Sold Ones

The Hungry Empire expands across the land, spewing new gods and conquering lands and Denizens, people and stories and mind, The Sold Ones are Fair Folk corrupted by the Locust.

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The Stages of Fair Folk Development

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Fair Folk mature through unknown means, going through a total of seven observed stages of development

1. New Mask (Larval Form)
2. Skin Mask (Pupa Form)
3. Speaking Mask (Adult Form)
4. Singing Mask (following the first Molting)
5. Resonance Mask (following the second Molting)
6. Story Mask (Mature Adult Form)
7. Mythic Mask (Dust Form)