History Quotes / TheFairFolk

--->''Yeah. Most wait after the child is born. Or is this a twofer move, where you [[EquivalentExchange create the fairytale wedding by imposing the payment in advance]]?''

-->--''VideoGame/DragonAge Origins''

-->-- '''Susanna Clarke''', ''JonathanStrangeAndMrNorrell''.

-->-- '''ThePogues''', ''Sit Down By The Fire''

-->-- '''Justin Augustine''', ''CityOfHeroes''

-->-- '''William Butler Yeats''', ''The Stolen Child''

-> Totally divorced from the cycle of life and death as it exists in Creation, raksha who interact with Creation-born can only imitate the characteristics of such beings. More commonly, a raksha just parodies them crudely. As a Storyteller you can accentuate the alien nature of raksha existence by playing up how alien Creation-born are to them. Imagine how strange the idea of "food" might be to the Fair Folk. Creation-born devote much of there lives to burying tiny seeds in the earth, carefully cultivating them for months, harvesting the resulting crops, preparing them as food, eating them and expelling them as waste. (What's all ''that'' about? Do humans go through all that work just to defecate?) Now, imagine Fair Folk becoming fascinated with the concept of "food" and exploring all aspects of that concept, shaping themselves to be able to eat mortal food... as well as things no mortal would eat (just to keep things interesting). Those raksha who seek to understand Creation approach all aspects of the world with curiosity of a precocious child, the scientific detachment of a savant and all the inventiveness of a being constrained neither by morality nor the laws of physics.
--> -- ''Graceful Wicked Masques The Fair Folk,'' '''{{Exalted}}'''

-> I certainly didn’t set out to specialize in elves. But recently, I think I figured out where this pattern comes from. [...] As I was developing Samara, [[TalkingAnimal the cat character]], I had a startling insight. [[CatsAreSuperior Start with a cat]]; give her intelligence, weapons, magic, and art; allow her human height and stance; [[CatsAreMean keep the attitude]]--what do you have?
-> The answer is, of course, an elf. Dip Samara in Nair, and the haughty little wench could walk around [[ForgottenRealms Evermeet]] without raising a winged eyebrow. So I suppose it makes sense for me to gravitate toward elves--I’m a [[KindheartedCatLover cat person]] from way back.

->''[G]ood fairies don't exist.''
-->-- '''Rae "Sunshine" Seddon''', ''Sunshine'' by RobinMcKinley

-->-- Rhyme from ''TheWheelOfTime'' which precedes the game of Snakes and Foxes, being a corrupted memory of the tools needed to fight the local version of the Fair Folk.

->Up the airy mountain\\
Down the rushy glen\\
We dare not go a-hunting\\
For fear of little men.
-->--Traditional

-->-- '''Creator/JohnMilton''', "Literature/{{Comus}}"

--> Totally divorced from the cycle of life and death as it exists in Creation, raksha who interact with Creation-born can only imitate the characteristics of such beings. More commonly, a raksha just parodies them crudely. As a Storyteller you can accentuate the alien nature of raksha existence by playing up how alien Creation-born are to them. Imagine how strange the idea of "food" might be to the Fair Folk. Creation-born devote much of there lives to burying tiny seeds in the earth, carefully cultivating them for months, harvesting the resulting crops, preparing them as food, eating them and expelling them as waste. (What's all ''that'' about? Do humans go through all that work just to defecate?) Now, imagine Fair Folk becoming fascinated with the concept of "food" and exploring all aspects of that concept, shaping themselves to be able to eat mortal food... as well as things no mortal would eat (just to keep things interesting). Those raksha who seek to understand Creation approach all aspects of the world with curiosity of a precocious child, the scientific detachment of a savant and all the inventiveness of a being constrained neither by morality nor the laws of physics.
--> -- ''Graceful Wicked Masques The Fair Folk,'' ''TabletopGame/Exalted''

->''I must say that traveling with you has opened my eyes to how wrong some are about the Dalish. You are not at all savage, and I've not seen you snatch away women and children without provocation.''
-->--'''Leliana''', ''VideoGame/DragonAge Origins''

->''Like most of his race the fairy had a great multitude of names, honorifics, titles, and pseudonyms; but usually he was known as Cold Henry. Cold Henry made a long and deferential speech to his guest. The speech was full of metaphors and obscure allusions, but what Cold Henry seemed to be saying was that fairies were naturally wicked creatures who did not always know when they were going wrong.''
-->-- '''Susanna Clarke''', ''JonathanStrangeAndMrNorrell''.

-> '''Anders:''' Do the Dalish ever have fancy parties? I always imagined they celebrated most big occasions by eating mushrooms and acorns. And maybe dancing naked around a campfire.

-->-- '''The Pogues''', ''Sit Down By The Fire''

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Elves are terrific. They beget [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel terror]].\\

--> -- TerryPratchett, ''Discworld/{{Lords and Ladies}}''

-->-- ''Discworld/LordsAndLadies'', TerryPratchett

->''Consider, for instance, a Fae who believes that he has fallen in love with a changeling, and she loves him in turn. One day, though, that will all fall apart, a house of cards whirling in a callous wind. The Fae might grow to hate the changeling's pandering attentions. Or maybe the Fae will one day ask a simple favor -- "Please, my dear, pass me the salt" -- and in the changeling's hesitation the Fae sees gross disobedience. As so he snaps her neck, wondering at the sounds that gurgle up from her collapsed trachea. Soon thereafter, he remembers the burbling of the honeyed brook outside his Arcadian home, and he returns to his world, managing to never think twice about how easily he killed his "love."''
--> -- ''[[TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost Changeling: the Lost]]''

-->-- '''Rae "Sunshine" Seddon''', ''Sunshine'' by {{Robin McKinley}}

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-> I certainly didn’t set out to specialize in elves. But recently, I think I figured out where this pattern comes from. [...] As I was developing Samara, [[TalkingAnimals the cat character]], I had a startling insight. [[CatsAreSuperior Start with a cat]]; give her intelligence, weapons, magic, and art; allow her human height and stance; [[CatsAreMean keep the attitude]]--what do you have?

--> -- ''[[ChangelingTheLost Changeling: the Lost]]''

Every night they march out of that hole in the wall, passin' through on their way out of Hell.''\\
-- '''The Pogues''', ''Sit Down By The Fire''

->''"Far out in the center of this region is a place called the Chantry. It's supposed to hold all kinds of vast and ancient secrets, including a powerful being the natives only refer to as 'The Kind One'. Now, a title like that can mean a lot of things in folklore, like trying to placate something monstrous."''\\
-- '''Justin Augustine''', ''CityOfHeroes''

For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand."''\\
- '''William Butler Yeats''', ''The Stolen Child''

--> ''[[ChangelingTheLost Changeling: the Lost]]''

-->--'''Rae "Sunshine" Seddon''', ''Sunshine'' by {{Robin McKinley}}

-->-- ''{{Discworld}}/LordsAndLadies'', TerryPratchett

-> -- Elaine Cunningham