Editing Faerie Courts (section)

==== Low Autumn ====
These are "the most wretched of Fae",<ref>“You have yet to succeed in swatting me,” Maricica taunted, before laughing.<br><br>“You’re enemies?” Lucy asked.<br><br>“A question of courts and houses,” Guilherme said. “I’m of the Summer court above. She is of the court of the most wretched of Fae.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/06/13 Excerpt] from [[Stolen Away 2.2]]</ref> "the wretched", who focus on "transformations and curses",<ref name=":4">“The court of Dark Fall is the court of the wretched, if not the most piteous and powerful,” Guilherme said. “When a Faerie of another court is cursed to carry a scrabbling rodent in her womb for every rodent born in her country, the penalty of a game lost or offending the wrong noble, she might crawl to the court of Dark Fall, to seek assistance and to become a different kind of Fae that can bear the curse and still function.”<br><br>“Grey Isbold,” Maricica said, like she was amused. [...] “They grow inside her, they scratch and writhe, they’re eventually born, and they dart into dark corners, where they summarily disappear. Their job is done, you see. She’s learned to manage them, in more ways than the one. My home court is one of transformations and curses. I do think it’s the most interesting and subtle.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/06/13 Excerpt] from [[Stolen Away 2.2]]</ref> "cast off rules and roles [...] be this or do that".<ref>“Oh, I’ll tell you of the Court of Fall in Shadow,” Maricica said, slipping out of the shadows to appear right next to Verona. “We cast off rules and roles. That we should be this or do that. Why wear ''one'' skin, hm?” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/06/13 Excerpt] from [[Stolen Away 2.2]]</ref>

Many "traffic in humans", creating new Fae from them (the primary court to do this), bartering them, breaking them down for spell parts,<ref name=":8">Guilherme smiled. The cave was cool enough that his breath fogged a bit. “While I’m telling you things about her, I could tell you one more thing about her court. Fae of the High Fall traffic with humans, playing pranks, stealing them away to return them to the same place, years in the future. You have the small, gnarled Fae who do errands and give gifts in exchange for cream or honey… but the Fae of the Darker Fall court don’t traffic ''with'' humans so much as they traffic ''in'' humans. The children who are stolen away, the ones who I described making their way to the Courts, or being brought in to then be drowned in Glamour? Largely the province of that girl’s court. The ones who can’t be bartered away to other courts for power, cures, or fixes become parts and ingredients for remedies.”<br><br>“I’ve yet to decide if that’s what I wish to do,” Maricica said, dropping down from the ceiling. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/06/13 Excerpt] from [[Stolen Away 2.2]]</ref> or transforming them into pets to trade.<ref name=":6" /> Responsible for most stories of Changelings.<ref name=":17">'''Dark Fall – Maricica’s Court'''<br><br>Other courts change.  The Court of Dark Fall is mostly made up of the changed, the changing, and the exchanged.  The stories of changelings, who are Fae placed in a crib to replace a child that is stolen away are mostly based on this court.  Fae from the Dark Fall may be the cursed of other courts finding refuge, the transformed and those who wear more than one skin.<br><br>They are the best at moving in shadows, because so many are used to hiding and they share tricks among one another.  They are also described as being pretty monstrous.  Not in shape or anything, but in what they’ll do with stolen children, selling them or changing them to different forms.  Human-animal forms or forced transformations to the animal or monstrous are pretty common.  These guys can harbor a lot of grudges, and they seem to use kids as, like, sharpening stones for the tools they want to use for revenge.  Really good at transforming and Maricica says they’re resistant to Winter? - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/08 5.2 Bonus: Faerie Courts & Goblins]</ref> However, they cannot take infants without the parent's accidental consent, or older children who have not implicitly volunteered.<ref>There are rules on who and what they can take.  They say the very young can only be taken if the parents ask for it.  A mother at her wit’s end over her squalling child may say something she doesn’t truly mean and something at the window may listen.  Once a child has autonomy, they must invite it themselves, or else accept an invitation to run away, to join a circus, or such.  - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/08 5.2 Bonus: Faerie Courts & Goblins]</ref> Their agents often leave behind bone, hair, shed feathers and shed skins, carcasses with essential pieces missing, and dolls and other children’s things that are made of macabre or curious materials.<ref>Keep an eye out for bone, for hair, for shed feathers and shed skins.  For carcasses with essential pieces missing, and for dolls and other children’s things that are made of macabre or curious materials.  These things left here and there can mark the activities of the Dark Fall.  They may operate in groups or with singular agents, and will travel to and from the markets in shadow with their gains. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/08 5.2 Bonus: Faerie Courts & Goblins]</ref> In addition to children, they also have markets which sell the darkest of secrets; almost nothing is verboten to this court.<ref>We allow indulgence in all things and we rule nothing out.  For those who want dark secrets or power, with a few specific exceptions, our markets sell all things, including that knowledge. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/08 5.2 Bonus: Faerie Courts & Goblins]</ref><ref>Toadswallow says:  They’d be good company if they weren’t so wrapped up in their misery, trying to convince any who’ll listen that they’re piteous.  Their market is safer than the ‘Bright’ one, my dears, but only because the dangers are either obvious or you’ll know to stay clear because the trap is too well wrought for you to ever notice. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/08 5.2 Bonus: Faerie Courts & Goblins]</ref> 

Few are born to this court,<ref>“Can I ask what you did to get sent to the Dark Fall court?” Verona asked.<br><br>“Can we ''please'' stay focused?” Lucy asked.<br><br>“I was of the rare few born to it,” Maricica said, her eyes wide. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/06/13 Excerpt] from [[Stolen Away 2.2]]</ref> but Fae who have been cursed may make their way there to learn control over the curse.<ref name=":4" /> Lose the least to Winter.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":17" /> 

Include [[Maricica]] and possibly [[Grey Isbold]].