Editing Fae (section)

== Description ==
Faerie come in many shapes and sizes, male and female, but generally speaking, they follow trends that change over time. Faerie manipulate things to distract, to addle your senses so you aren’t paying attention to the fact that it doesn’t fit with reality, with [[Glamour]]. Faerie are weak to crude materials and direct behavior, as a result of it challenging their beliefs and self-delusions. Additionally Silver is a solid defensive measure against all things Fae, as long as they aren't in Winter.<ref>[[Cutting Class 6.3]]</ref> Psychologically they are easily bored, to the point where some throw away their minds or lose them in order to start fresh.{{cite}} It is said that once faerie become bored they become monsters of the worse kind.

Faerie typically don't get along with [[Goblin]]s and it has been revealed that some time in the past they actually enslaved and bound some goblins, during a changeover in the courts, its colored their relationship since.<ref>I got [[Hyena||the sword]] and unwrapped it.<br><br>“Geeeeez.  [[Maggie|I’ve]] ''heard'' about this sort of thing.  Faerie used to enslave and bind goblins, during an era when the courts were changing over.  Mixed up relationship between the two.  Many powerful goblins agreed to take up certain forms, as part of treaties.  This thing isn’t small potatoes.” - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/05/15 Excerpt] from [[Subordination 6.8]]</ref> Their personalities and abilities tend to be opposite as well. Goblins refer to them as the ''unfair folk''.<ref name=":10">The goblins shared stories between one another about what goblins were and why metal was so problematic. The usual story was that when a [[Practitioner|Wise man]] drank from a cup while dining, the bits of food that got into the cup and lingered after the drink was done accumulated. Except it was workings, not drink, and bits of self, not food. Greasy fingerprints left behind when touching something beyond the veil. Bits of skin that should have grown and the hairs that should have fallen from one’s head, that didn’t, because they were wearing different skin or hair, and the stuff that wasn’t had to end up someplace.<br><br>There was another story that said that the unfair folk were people once, and they chopped off all the bits they didn’t like, and those bits became goblins, but Buttsack didn’t like that version.<br><br>Fuck the unfair folk. Being magic hairballs for humans, fabricated of their dust, scum, grease, pubes, and stress, that was one thing. Being of faerie? Fuck that idea sideways and backward.<br><br>Whatever the case, many stories had one or two common elements. The goblins were leavings, discards, scrap given form. The earth called to them, to decompose them like it was meant to devour and decompose all leavings, and the metal was the earth in distilled form. Or maybe the process that made goblins was - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/07/08 Excerpt] form [[Signature 8.1]]</ref>

When it comes to humans they prefer to deal with attractive ones,<ref>Fae were prejudiced in their own way, choosing attractive people to associate with, so [Toadswallow] could ballpark an area, look for the most attractive person, and check they were moving in the right direction.  There.  A person, touched with Glamour in a brief exchange with one of the Fae.  A woman in a short linen dress with scalloped edges at the bottom, hair in curated waves.  Attractive, like the Fae liked, stinking of, as he’d joked with the Kennet practitioners, ninny glitter.

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 - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/04/17 Excerpt] from [[One After Another 10.e]]</ref> or presumably where this is hard to gauge those with symmetrical features

Thanks to their immortality, their love of sophistication, and the benefits of glamour, Faerie are generally inhumanly skilled at what they do. They map to anything on [[Deals]] and [[Interaction]] in practice.<ref>Is an alternate table you could work with, for example. Some stuff's only going to slide left and right or up and down, but you could stick Fae-something in any Deals column thing or Interactions row thing. You could also reach into any of these things with a high enough Schools stat in a practice, in Pactdice terms. - [https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/mkitr3/_/gti7wil Wildbow on Reddit]</ref>

Given their reputation most practitioners will steer clear of them even if they're used to dealing with more horrific things.<ref>“I’m trying to think about what we should do,” Miss said, standing at the far end of the unlit room, by the head of the bed, where it was too dark for even Verona’s sight to penetrate.  Verona wondered if she could hit the light switch, but there was no guarantee it wouldn’t hurt Alpeana for the room to be that bright.  Miss went on to say, “I might step away for a moment, stir up the goblins, and ask John to patrol.  The problem is, what would we do with them, if they were close enough to find?  Murder would invite more problems, anyone that close may be too determined to easily scare.  A disappearance invites further investigation.<br><br>“Guilherme, Miss,” Alpeana said.  “Ask him, aye?  Many a man who’ll face doon a bogey-sort and still walk double-time away from a Fae, now.”<br><br>“I suppose we must.  I’ll do that.  John and Guilherme, a quick patrol around the boundaries of Kennet.  See if anyone has camped out somewhere, or if they’re sending bound Others in as tools.  If they’re stealing eyes and using them to make observation tools, there’ll be a supply chain.  As for you four…” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/06/27 Excerpt] from [[Stolen Away 2.6]]</ref> The threat a fae makes are believed and their habit of saying one thing and meaning another is well understood.<ref>“What happened with Guilherme and <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[Nicolette]]]?”<br><br>“He caught her in the woods north of the city.  They talked, and I listened in.”<br><br>“What did they say?”<br><br>“That he would let her go if she forgot the particulars.  She eventually agreed.  He then said that if she returned, he would be a gracious host and give her what she came for.  If it was wrath in her heart, he would give her violence.  If it was greed, then he would give her what she coveted.  If it was envy, he would give her lessons and raise her up, so she had no desire to take what others had.  And so on.  She’s a knowledgeable enough practitioner to know he would follow through, and what that might mean, coming from a Faerie.”<br><br>“Kind of making me reflect even more on the gifts,” Verona said, as she walked up to where Lucy was, peering into the trees.<br><br>“She was told the same went for her family, or anyone else who came at her behest.  All they had to do was enter Kennet.  - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/07/04 Excerpt] from [[Stolen Away 2.8]]</ref>