Enchanted by nature: Fairy discussion
With fairies finally officially confirmed by the trailer and the blog post I think it is time to have a proper discussion about them, similar to how we already a have a world discussion about the new...
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The gameplay trailer showed a new plant, the Moody Shrub, that fae can pull emotions from for sustenance. It was the largest spiral plant that is multi-color and glowing. I would imagine fae will need a grove of them, if the faerie wants to live off them as their only emotional food, because undoubtedly there will be a time interval between draw-downs.
I wonder if we will be able to choose to play the fae in their small forms, or if they will only have a few interactions that use the small form, like "bathe/play under water faucet" or "sleep in doll house." I would love to keep them small when sitting on a chair or sleeping in a bed. It would be like playing a Tinker Bell type faerie. The fae are so darling when small. It would be a shame if we cannot take advantage of it. Maybe a modder could help with that, if EA did not include it.
amjoie I saw the mood shrub in the trailer and it looks useful. Depending on the reaction of sims on fairies feeding on their emotions, I might have to use this a lot.
What is the difference between fea, faerie and fairy? In my language we don't make that distinction.
atreya33 The way I have always used it, and I might be wrong about this in a general sense, but I think that fae refers to the plural of faerie, and might include other types like elves, gnomes, pixies, nature sprites and etc. So, more inclusive and referring to many rather than just one. Since the game will be giving an ability to have fauns and satyrs as well as pointed ears, it seemed to me that the more inclusive term was correct.
As far as the use of the word faerie, I read a whole lot of old world tales of the fae when I was young those books used this spelling. so I think it is just an older form of the word. It looks more enchanted to me, and I have always preferred it to the more modernized (and possibly more western/new world) version of the word, which is fairy.
I think it doesn't really matter, and they are all commonly used interchangeably.
