"temporalgod;c-17960047" wrote:
"DaWaterRat;c-17960026" wrote:
Fun thought I had. It isn't necessarily new, because it has to do with Faeries, but all my internal ranting about how the Victorians reduced True Fae to small pretty things with wings gave me this idea
What if they did Faeries with a Steampunk Victorian aesthetic? Clockwork wings and Top hats with goggles, and striped hose under bustle skirts...
And we get courts, but it's Clock-punk vs. Garden?
Aren't Tiny Fairies just pixies?
Yep. And that's what the majority of people think of when they think Fairy. Small, pretty people with wings, a la Tinkerbelle or Thumbelina. Because the Victorians took all the danger out of Faerie and reduced them to just the pixie variety. But True Faerie is so, so much more than that, even if we limit it to just the British Isles versions. When we expand Faerie to include the similar creatures from other cultures it becomes even wider in scope.
Which is why we're more likely to get pretty people with wings than true fae if we ever get a Faerie pack. Because 1)it won't fit in a Game Pack budget, and 2) most people won't know what hit them if they were confronted by a Cornish Nocker, or a Pwca, or a Spriggan, or Russian Domovoi, or a Japanese Youkai, or any of countless other creatures that aren't pretty people with wings that exist in various folklores around the world.
I've made my peace with it, but that doesn't mean I won't keep hoping for more and trying to spread knowledge of the Fae.