Fae

Fae
Racial Characteristics
Average Height:	Variable
Average Weight:	Variable
Hair Color:	Variable
Eye Color:	Variable
Other Information
Country of Origin:	Extraplanar
Significant Populations:	Seelie & Unseelie Courts
Major Religion:	None

The term "Fae" is an umbrella term for a number of mystical races that typically exist outside the mortal realm. Their lives are measured in thousands of years, if not true immortality, though they are vulnerable to unexpected death. Most are vulnerable to the touch of cold iron, and react violently to contact with it.

There are, usually, two types of Fae: There are the spiteful, or Unseelie, and the just, or Seelie. The first tend to be nightmarish creatures, exacting pleasure from pain and generally revelling in suffering. The second are more righteous and usually considered to be ‘good’. It seems they try to fill out the role of good and evil and the struggle between them. Do not be fooled though, for both sides are equally capricious as the other and neither side is to be trusted.

Both the Seelie and the Unseelie have formed into vast courts, styling themselves after the courts of mortal legend. The great Seelie court is usually awash with bright colour and filled with Fae playing at gallant knights, princesses and princes, minstrels and bards playing uplifting tunes and ballads of great heroic battles, presided over by a King or Queen or both. The Unseelie too has a King or Queen, though their court is usually dark and dreary with ghostly apparitions, nightmarish creatures and sadistic mistresses, the bards singing sorrowful tales about lost love and death. The reader should note that these are just generalisations to show how both courts may act most of the time, but as whimsical as the Fae themselves they are like to change.

For as long as the courts have existed they’ve waged war upon the other: Whether through direct conflict or other, subtler means. As of late the Fae courts have found a new ground upon which to do battle: The mortal realm. There they sow discord or weave order through whispered words and messages. So far such manipulations have been kept on a small scale, perhaps causing a death or fortune of a merchant, each side claiming small victories.

One of the more famous of Fae manipulations was the taking (and returning) of the then Prince Arlok of Arangoth by the Mitrodgis, a Fae-ish race of little people. The Mitrodgis, however, make no claim that their act was to assist either of the sides. Despite this, the Seelie and the Unseelie both point fingers at how the taking of Arlok assisted them both and crow delight at how effective it was.

Fae who claim who side of the conflict are rare to come across, and these Fae are usually found within Tor Anan.

Tor Anan

Main Article: Tor Anan

Tor Anaan exists as a neutral place between the Seelie and Unseelie Courts, open and welcoming to all fae.