Line #217 Quotes/TheFairFolk


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4	->Everybody says it's complicated because they assume it must be, because ''of COURSE'' the gentle and generous Tapu Bulu wouldn't go into a berserker rage over something so ''petty'' as a bulk-bargain outlet getting built on his favorite beach.\
5	What they all choose to forget is that Tapu Bulu- ''all'' of the Tapus- are ''fairies''. They have their own rules, and they follow them… and they don't give a whit for anyone ''else's''. And no, they ''don't'' feel any obligation to explain what their rules are.
6	-->-- '''Acerola''', ''Fanfic/BoldoresandBoomsticks''
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11	->Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.\
12	Elves are marvelous. They cause marvels.\
13	Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.\
14	Elves are glamorous. They project {{glamour}}.\
15	Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.\
16	Elves are terrific. They beget terror.\
17	The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes, look behind words that have changed their meaning.\
18	No one ever said elves are ''nice''.\
19	Elves are ''bad.''
20	-->-- ''Literature/LordsAndLadies''
21
22	->They steal cattle and babies...\
23	They steal milk...\
24	They love music, and steal away musicians...\
25	In fact they steal everything. \
26	[[PunyEarthlings We'll never be]] [[TheUnfettered as free as them,]] [[LightIsNotGood as light as them,]] [[{{Glamour}} as beautiful as them;]] [[MindRape we are animals.]]
27	-->-- ''Literature/LordsAndLadies''
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29	->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.
30	-->-- ''Literature/JonathanStrangeAndMrNorrell''
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32	->'''[[OccultLawFirm Ms. Lewis]]''': The Faerie go through trends, fashions of a sort. Mixing notions, styles, and past ideas into new forms until they’ve run completely out of ideas. Then they rebel, they overthrow the court, and a new season begins with a different foundation. Light faerie versus the dark, for example, or a court with a true king and queen and a dynasty that they’ve glamoured up to extend back through the centuries. The "duelist" would be one idea that might have caught their fancy, as of late.\
33	'''Blake Thorburn''': I'm not sure I get it. They're just playing?\
34	'''Ms. Lewis''': It's a very serious sort of play, when you get down to it. Dress it up in the glamour of possible true death, using a rapier can kill even Faerie. Build up stories of an unbeatable duelist, fights for pride, fights for the idea of romance. See what ideas and adventures emerge. Something as brutal, violent and sudden as this is far more dramatic and interesting when the "death" of one individual in a duel might throw two hundred plots into disarray. A Faerie cannot afford ''not'' to watch.
35	-->-- ''Literature/{{Pact}}''
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37	->Up the airy mountain \
38	Down the rushy glen, \
39	We dare not throw a party, dude,\
40	For fear of little men.
41	-->-- from the back cover blurb of ''[[Literature/AppliedMythology Mythology Abroad]]'' by Jody Lynn Nye
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43	->Good fairies don't exist.
44	-->-- '''Rae "Sunshine" Seddon''', ''Literature/{{Sunshine}}''
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46	->Faeries are the offspring of angels and demons, [[FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon with the beauty of angels and the viciousness of demons]]. A vampire might attack you, if you entered its domain, but a faerie could make you dance until you died with your legs ground down into stumps, trick you into going for a midnight swim and drag you screaming underwater until your lungs burst, fill your eyes with faerie dust until you gouged them out at the roots— [...] Look, it's easy to outsmart a werewolf or vampire. They're no smarter than anyone else. But faeries [[LongLived live for hundreds of years]] and they're as cunning as snakes. They [[CannotTellALie can't lie]], but [[MetaphoricallyTrue they love to engage in creative truth-telling]]. They'll find out whatever it is you want most in the world and give it to you — [[JackassGenie with a sting in the tail of the gift that will make you regret you ever wanted it in the first place]]. They're not about helping people. More harm disguised as help.
47	-->--'''Jace''', ''Literature/TheMortalInstruments''
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49	->Courage to strengthen,\
50	Fire to blind,\
51	Music to dazzle,\
52	[[ColdIron Iron to bind]].
53	-->-- Rhyme predating the game of Snakes and Foxes, a corrupted memory of the tools needed to fight the Fair Folk in ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime''
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55	->'''And death,' said Thingol, 'thou shouldst taste,''\
56	''had I not sworn an oath in haste''\
57	''that blade nor chain thy flesh should mar.''\
58	''Yet captive bound by never a bar,''\
59	''unchained, unfettered, shalt thou be''\
60	''in lightless labyrinth endlessly''\
61	''that coils about my halls profound''\
62	''by magic bewildered and enwound;''\
63	''there wandering in hopelessness''\
64	''thou shalt learn the power of Elvenesse!''
65	-->-- ''Literature/BerenAndLuthien''
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68	[[folder:Music]]
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70	->Tall and proud and wondrous fair\
71	The people of the dark and air\
72	Hold high the [[ColdIron iron]] that they fear\
73	When the Fair Folk call, don't let them near . . .\
74	Seven years spent [[PlaceBeyondTime out of time]]\
75	And all is lost that once was mine\
76	I tarried once and listened long\
77	To the echoes of the Fair Folk's song.
78	-->-- '''Music/HeatherDale''', "The Fair Folk"
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80	->We were wise, oh so wise,\
81	Not given to lies or deceit.\
82	We juggled secrets at our fingertips,\
83	Wore diamonds at our feet.\
84	We showed you ways to play old airs.\
85	We said we could be friends.\
86	But, when our backs were turned, you got us in the end.\
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88	We're the mystery of the lake when the water's still.\
89	We're the laughter in the twilight\
90	You can hear behind the hill.\
91	We'll stay around to watch you laugh,\
92	Destroy yourselves for fun.\
93	But, you won't see us, we've grown sideways to the sun.
94	-->-- '''Music/{{Horslips}}''', "Sideways to the Sun," in which the Fair Folk of Ireland withdraw from the ungrateful and Christianised human race
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96	->Sit down by the fire and I'll tell ye a story to send ye away to your bed\
97	Of the things ye hear creepin' when everyone's sleepin' and you wish you were out here instead\
98	It isn't the mice in the wall, it isn't the wind in the well.\
99	Every night they march out of that hole in the wall, passin' through on their way out of Hell.
100	-->-- '''Music/ThePogues''', "Sit Down By The Fire"
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102	->Don't you see yon bonny bonny road\
103	That lies among the heather fair,\
104	That is the road to fair Elfland,\
105	where you and I this night must gang.\
106	Harp and carp, come along o'me, Thomas The Rhymer....
107	-->-- The Elf-Queen's invitation to the poet Thomas in traditional Scottish ballad, re-envisioned by '''Music/SteeleyeSpan'''
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109	->We can go to the world of the legends and twilight\
110	The world of the wee-folk, the faery, the sidhe\
111	If we dance to their music, we'll stay there forever\
112	In the misty oul' moonlight, the dawn of the free\
113	And we'll dance and dance and dance and dance\
114	We'll dance all night on the hill
115	-->--'''Music/TheSawDoctors''', "Away With The Fairies"
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119	[[folder:Poetry]]
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121	->Come away, O human child!\
122	To the waters and the wild\
123	With a faery, hand in hand,\
124	For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
125	-->-- '''Creator/WilliamButlerYeats''', "The Stolen Child"
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131	->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".
132	-->-- ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost''
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134	->The fairy tales are true. Hell, they're ''worse'' than true: the stuff you read out of Grimm's is light, ﬂuffy; frankly, all too optimistic. Somewhere in the deep dark forest, you'll find a house with gingerbread walls whose cake-mortar bleeds if you eat it. Somewhere you might ﬁnd a wicked stepmother with a poisonous apple and thorns for eyes, or seven dwarves who will save you for the cost of pledging your eternal service to the wizened men.
135	-->--''TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil'', First Edition corebook
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137	->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.
138	-->-- ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}, Graceful Wicked Masques The Fair Folk''
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140	->Trust not in [[HumanAliens their appearance]], for the [[SpaceElves Eldar]] are as alien to good, honest men as the [[HordeOfAlienLocusts vile Tyranids]] and [[OurOrcsAreDifferent savage Orks]]. There is no understanding them, for there is nothing to understand -- they are a random force in the universe.
141	-->-- '''Imperial Commander Abriel Hume''', ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''
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143	->Be not here tomorrow eve! Go! Go away, far away! Hide, skulk, crawl on your belly through the dense tangles of forest if you must, but be not here when the Devils That Stalk Men come. Your soul will not see the Great Emperor, they will take it from His light and devour it for themselves. The pain of your soul will mirror the pain in your body. [[EmotionEater They feast upon fear, they drink your terror]], they delight in your impotency to resist them. They will come and all will die or be taken. That is the way of these things. They don't kill you! [[FateWorseThanDeath They don't just kill you]]...
144	-->-- Last words of '''Jeremiah''' of Thangod Colony, Beta-Coplin XXI, ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000: Codex -- Dark Eldar (2nd ed)''
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146	->Malko stumbled backwards, remembering the stories Goodwife Ingrid used to tell him as a child: grisly tales of a changeling folk who came from the skies to steal the innocent away into hell.
147	-->-- ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'', ''Codex -- Dark Eldar (5th ed)''
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150	->Capricious and unpredictable, the Wood Elves have been likened to a force of nature, neither truly good nor evil; [[EnchantedForest Athel Loren]] and the Wood Elves are [[BlueAndOrangeMorality far removed from simple comparison with the values held by other races]]. Like a placid lake, the Wood Elves can appear serene, beautiful and enchanting, or as frightening and destructive as a storm. [[PetTheDog For every intruder that the Wood Elves guide out of Athel Loren]], another is [[KickTheDog slain without question or remorse]], and left where he falls to be claimed by the forest. Bones and skulls can often be seen on the outskirts of Athel Loren, many with arrows protruding from ribs or [[EyeScream embedded in eye sockets]], before they are obscured and covered by twisting roots and undergrowth, or taken away by forest animals.
151	-->--''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}: Wood Elves Army Book (6th edition)''
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157	->O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you.\
158	She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes\
159	In shape no bigger than an agate-stone\
160	On the fore-finger of an alderman,\
161	Drawn with a team of little atomies\
162	Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep;\
163	Her wagon-spokes made of long spinners' legs,\
164	The cover of the wings of grasshoppers,\
165	The traces of the smallest spider's web,\
166	The collars of the moonshine's watery beams,\
167	Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film,\
168	Her wagoner a small grey-coated gnat,\
169	Not so big as a round little worm\
170	Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid;\
171	Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut \
172	Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub,\
173	Time out o' mind the fairies' coachmakers.\
174	And in this state she gallops night by night \
175	Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love;\
176	O'er courtiers' knees, that dream on court'sies straight,\
177	O'er lawyers' fingers, who straight dream on fees,\
178	O'er ladies ' lips, who straight on kisses dream,\
179	Which oft the angry Mab with blisters plagues,\
180	Because their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are:\
181	Sometime she gallops o'er a courtier's nose,\
182	And then dreams he of smelling out a suit;\
183	And sometime comes she with a tithe-pig's tail\
184	Tickling a parson's nose as a' lies asleep,\
185	Then dreams, he of another benefice:\
186	Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck\
187	And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats,\
188	Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades,\
189	Of healths five-fathom deep; and then anon\
190	Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes,\
191	And being thus frighted swears a prayer or two\
192	And sleeps again. This is that very Mab\
193	That plats the manes of horses in the night,\
194	And bakes the elflocks in foul sluttish hairs,\
195	Which once untangled, much misfortune bodes:\
196	This is the hag, when maids lie on their backs,\
197	That presses them and learns them first to bear,\
198	Making them women of good carriage.
199	-->-- '''Creator/WilliamShakespeare''', ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' (1.4.57-98)
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201	->Som say no evil thing that walks by night\
202	In fog, or fire, by lake, or moorish fen,\
203	Blew meager Hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost,\
204	That breaks his magick chains at curfeu time, \
205	No goblin, or swart faery of the mine,\
206	Hath hurtfull power o're [[VirginPower true virginity]].
207	-->-- '''Creator/JohnMilton''', ''Theatre/{{Comus}}''
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213	->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.
214	-->-- '''Justin Augustine''', ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes''
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216	->'''Leliana:''' 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.\
217	'''Mahariel:''' Are you trying to be funny?\
218	'''Leliana:''' Funny? No, people actually do believe such things of you.
219	-->-- ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins''
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221	->'''Anders:''' Do the Dalish ever have fancy parties? I always imagined they celebrated most big occasions by eating mushrooms and acorns. And maybe [[NudeNatureDance dancing naked around a campfire]].\
222	'''Merrill:''' You know, I was wondering when the naked dancing was going to start... and the human sacrifice. I mean, you just can't throw a decent party without kidnapping a human child and offering her entrails to the sky gods.\
223	'''Anders:''' Really?\
224	'''Merrill:''' No.
225	-->-- ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', "Mark of the Assassin"
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227	->'''Josephine Montilyet:''' Stories of "wild Dalish elves" have grown even more outrageous as people learned of you. [...] Stealing children, selling peasants to slavers, burning down villages, using infants for blood magic... those are the stories about your fellow Dalish. I won't repeat what they've said about ''you.''\
228	'''Lavellan:''' The humans telling those tales are the first [[FantasticRacism to take a knife to someone with pointed ears]]. My clan's defended ourselves against them more times than I can count.
229	-->-- ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition''
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231	->If that's the case, the reason it [[GreenThumb makes the clover tree to grow]]...is to keep us from being hit by the harmful rain so that gains more benefits [[ImAHumanitarian when eating our flesh]]?
232	->To...make its meals tastier.
233	->Ugh, I really think that thing doesn't deserve to be called a fairy.
234	-->-- ''VideoGame/LimbusCompany'', observation log of the 'Fairy Long-legs'
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238	->'''Woman:''' Oh! A fairy!\
239	'''Fairy:''' [[LampshadedTrope Yes, but unfortunately I'm a traditional Celtic folklore fairy]]. I'm gonna take your soul to pay a tithe to hell. Then I'm gonna steal some shit. Also you're pregnant now. Bam. With a snake or something.
240	--> ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'', [[https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/fairy Fairy]]
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245	->'''la-meilleure-amie:''' Everyone [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor SAYS]] they want a {{fairytale}} wedding day but when I [[Literature/SleepingBeauty show up and curse their firstborn]] suddenly [[BlueAndOrangeMorality I'm a jerk]].\
246	'''deliriumoverdelusion:''' Wait, but [[SadlyMythtaken who curses the firstborn at the wedding]]? Isn't that jumping a little bit ahead?\
247	'''of-light-and-dark:''' Yeah. Most wait after the child is born. Or is this a twofer move, where you [[JackassGenie create the fairytale wedding]] by imposing the [[EquivalentExchange payment in advance]]?
248	-->-- A '''{{Website/Tumblr}}''' [[http://of-light-and-dark.tumblr.com/post/59599845446/deliriumoverdelusion-la-meilleure-amie conversation]]
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254	->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?\
255	The answer is, of course, an elf. Dip Samara in Nair, and the haughty little wench could walk around [[TabletopGame/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.
256	-->-- '''Elaine Cunningham'''
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