Editing Faerie Courts (section)

==== High Autumn ====
They are "melodramatic and brooding, tangled in human ways and things, they play for keeps, with beginnings and endings in mind",<ref name=":1" /> "playing pranks, stealing [humans] away to return them to the same place, years in the future", including "the small, gnarled Fae who do errands and give gifts in exchange for cream or honey".<ref name=":8" /> Include "Faerie brokers, thieves, and Fae who traded in faces like money".<ref name=":7" /> Melodramatic, and inclined towards high-stakes dealings and betrayals that would produce a dramatic ending.<ref name=":15">These guys focus on change, changing, and exchange.  Those things cover transformation, constantly shifting positions and dynamics, markets, manipulation, and back-and-forth betrayals.  If the High Summer Fae watch the perimeter, these guys deal with tunnels, caves, back doors and ways through to other places.  Or our world.  They’re apparently broody and melodramatic, and mingle a ''lot'' with other non-Faerie Others, and with humans.  They love rises and falls, individual status, and stories. [...] Maricica Adds:  Their love of beginnings makes them fond of children and preying on a child’s naivette.  This can be used against them, if you feign such.  Else, turn them against one another, or turn the bartering into a game of very high stakes.  Their love of endings gives them a secret wish for a dramatic loss or fate.  Use this, but do not lose if you do.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/08 5.2 Bonus]: [[Faerie Courts & Goblins]]</ref>

They focus on change and exchange, including trade with the outside world, both open and clandestine.<ref name=":15" /> They charge dearly, and their goods inevitably carry hidden costs.<ref name=":16">Guilherme Says…<br>Seeing the courts outlined like in your notes can lead one to think they are the rabble or commoners, the High Spring court the nobles, and the High Summer the military.  This is not so.  Each is its own culture, and the Bright Autumn court benefits from being thought of as lesser.  Some may be shabbily dressed, but pretty in their own ways, or you may find the small Fairy in their number, cooking, cleaning, or selling knick-knacks for the equivalent of pennies.  All is by its design, and all are conniving.  Faerie have in the wake of Man’s rise, but the Bright Fall Faerie have adapted and weathered this better than any, though some would say it wasn’t without cost and a loss of some of what makes them Fae.  They scrabbled and fought, even climbing over one another to establish a place and a meaning, and you, or anyone else they might deal with, are the handholds and footholds by which they achieve this scrabbling.  If you find yourself in dire need, you could seek them out.  They’ll give you answers, cures for illness, madness, or a curse, they can transform you, permanently or temporarily, or give you a magic item.  Just know that when you strike a deal,the price they ask of you will seem (and be, Maricica adds) to be exorbitant, paid in favor, barter, or coin.  The actual price you pay will become clear in time, and will exceed the given price by ten times or more.  - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/08 5.2 Bonus: Faerie Courts & Goblins]</ref> Their trades are so crooked that there is no [[karmic]] penalty for stealing from them - although they employ terrible traps, and indeed the goods are often a trap to encourage stealing. Other than trading, they also cover entrepeneurship and invention.<ref>Toadswallow on the Bright Autumn:<br>Their markets are so steeped in cheating and unfairness  You can cheat, steal, or rob them and it’s not going to count against you.  It’s a whole other game, where they protect wares and have special measures set up.  Some even want you to steal something they’ve cursed or made a part of a bigger story.  But if you’re there out of desperation, it can be better to steal it, and deal with the traps and consequences then and there, while your desperation give you an edge, instead of waiting for it to hit you years down the line.<br><br>Outside the market, you can find Faerie, half-Faerie, and Fairy researchers, inventors, and others.  Trying to work out the next big fashion, making magic items, or using Glamour to blend a man with a mystery or mix a child together with a dream.  I don’t very well f’ing know.  They’re looking for opportunity.  Don’t be that opportunity. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/08 5.2 Bonus: Faerie Courts & Goblins]</ref>

Sometimes viewed as "lesser", the rabble, but they are a fully-formed society in their own right and have weathered the rise of [[Human|Humanity]] the best of any court.<ref name=":16" />  

[[Shellie Alitzer]] was a slave to this Court.<ref name=":7" /> The [[Blue Heron Institute]] pupils visited a minor, out-of-the-way market in this Court on a field trip.