Fairies

They are tall and very fragile,
yet they seem to live forever
and they come out of the places where our people do not dare
They bring music out of nowhere
and a light into the shadow
for there's magic in the places that they fare.
- Unknown.

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The Fey are one of the most ancient races and their soceity has survived vampires, purges, moving to the Summerland, the formation of the Seelie and Unseelie courts and many other things over the years. Strangely, their response to most of this has been a surprisingly rigid caste system which has largely survived intact since the time when their greatest creation (Lilith) refused to protect them from evil and went out into the world. Few fey recall much of their times before they ceased being the Lords of Life since most of their kind from that time have died, many by their own hands. As the Custodians of Life, the fey now have an obligation to fight against death and many mortal fairies tend to be geneticists working on a cure against death or some other anti-death occupation. Even the unseelie court follows this way, allthough their methods tend to align with the idea of killing fools to improve gene pools.

In the Summerland, the fey tended to remain apart, seperated by a range of mountains and were able ot ignore their differences by a simple "see not, hear not" idea. With Liliths return as a truly human being subject to death and bringing the cold of winter to the Summerland, almost all the fey were forced to return to earth. The exact results of this change will only be felt as the fey adapt to the world of iron, but mortal fairies having more knowledge of it than their immortal kindred is already upsetting the ancient caste system and some of the unseelie court are speaking of summoning the Wild Hunt themselves and ridding the world of humans, justifying that it would save more lives.

They bring gifts to those they favor
and bring death to the unwary
or, capriciously they steal away our kind.
Fearsome hunters, joyous singers
folk of terror, folk of wonder
form a puzzle with a key we cannot find.

Who are these dwellers in the hollow hills?

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