Some combine these theories (accepting, for instance, that an angel is an alien and vice versa), while others have their own bizarre notions they purport. Moreover, the following theories are by no means exhaustive. Note that no consensus exists among changelings - one freehold's changelings may believe the True Fae to be gods, other changelings may think the True Fae are demons. What follows are a few examinations of where the True Fae came from. Rumors exist of changelings who have convinced their Keepers to pursue these questions and uncover whatever diabolical genesis spawned them, but that's all there are: Rumors. Those Fae who have bothered to ruminate on the subject with their kept changelings don't seem to give it much thought at all: The Fae are what they are, they exist, and that is all they seem to understand. What's more concerning is that all evidence suggests that the True Fae themselves don't know - or don't care - from where or whence they came.
Of course, no changeling truly knows where the Fae come from, or how long they've been absconding with humans back to their tangled realm. By being understood, the Others can therefore be denied or defeated - or so a changeling likes to think. By pondering their origins, a changeling lends a veneer of logic to these entities it's a way of explaining them, of understanding their motivations. It is, in a way, comforting for a changeling to consider the origins of the Fae. One changeling might refer to them as the "Others," while another calls them the "Strangers." (And yet, use of either casts little doubt as to whom the changeling refers.) Certain regions might offer their own cultural or local variants on the name - an Irish changeling might call them the Daoine Sidhe (thee-na shee), a Scotsman might call them the Host or "Sluagh," whereas a changeling of India might call them the Rakshasas and a Catholic Lost might think of them purely as "the Demons." The names for the True Fae are as myriad as their horrid and beautiful faces. The Lost have a plethora of nicknames for the True Fae: The Keepers, the Cousins, the Fair Folk, the Good Folk, the Gentry, the Lords and Ladies, the Furies, etc. If he breaks his word, he destroys his Name - and for the Gentry, namelessness is obliteration. When an Other commits to a namebound Contract, obeying it defines his existence. These rare consistencies offer some clues, but there are no guarantees that these, or laws that cause them, are stable facts.Ī faerie can never intentionally violate a Contract he swears on his own name. What laws bind the True Fae? Even the Lost don’t know for sure, but they’ve learned fragments and patterns of behavior. In exchange for self-identity, they obey powerful obligations.
Their true nature is beyond imagination and their might is matchless in the mortal world - but they can’t always do as they please. Their powers in the mortal realm are greatly lessened, but still awesome their influence extends there by means of Contracts they made with the mundane elements long ago. In their home realm, and to a lesser extent the Hedge, they possess god-like abilities, able to shape and command all the elements of their domains at will. While they may sometimes take the form of human-like beings or animals, they are often incapable of understanding mortals, one of the reasons they find them so fascinating. They seem to understand the world through relatives rather than absolutes many are bound by obscure and bizarre oaths and rules others act seemingly at random, obeying a logic opaque to all humans. The Fae's perceptions, motivations and actions are alien to humans. When used to mean the True Fae, "Fae" is always capitalized "fae" without the capital refers to any creatures touched by faerie, including changelings. The euphemisms used by changelings are many, which helps to prevent them being summoned at the sound of their names. They seem to have no names for themselves as a "race", and indeed do not think of themselves as such each of the Fae is unique, and they refer to other denizens of Faerie by titles and names.
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