Category:Fey Lords, Faeries, Fey

If each thing has a spirit that is conscious, animate and can be addressed for aid or communication, And the Spirits of The East Wind and The Spirit of Mount Karzok are Air and Earth Elementals respectively. And if the Spirit King of Boars is a great and spectral boar who can manifest as an enormous Giant Dire Boar. Then what exactly ARE the Fairies, The Fey Lords and what is their meaning and purpose? And how do they fit in the cosmology of the world of Gran Albionne?

In the Time of the Beginning Of Things...
The short answer is that First and foremost, there were the Elemental Spirits. The self-aware, conscious creatures of pure Air, Earth, Fire, and Water. They were responsible for the creation of this world. The formation and manifestation of its matter. As they grew in awareness and power and knowledge, they began to coalesce into defined forms and shapes. The greatest of them arose to power first. The Queen of the World. The single largest Earth Elemental of the world, whose body is the planet itself. Followed in time by the second most supreme and immense personage of King Sky. An air elemental so incomprehensibly vase that his swirling, whirling body enveloped whole the beauteous Queen of the World in his great love for her. enfolding and encircling her wholly in his protective embrace always. Their mutual love for one another boundless, untroubed by doubt or conflict. Eternal and indivisible for all time.

The Advent of the Sun and of the Moon...
Their loving union attracted a lesser but still immensely ancient and powerful elemental spirit, Whose fealty lay with King Sky. This vassal of the lord of all air, The Great Spirit of the Sun, a consciousness of pure and brilliant fire element. Collossal and magnificent in scale, yet dwarfed by the dizzying immensity of The Queen of the World and King Sky, dwelt in peace and friendship with his lord, the consort and equal of the Queen, and became their first courtier. Saddened by the singularity of their servant, The Queen of the world conjured forth from the infinite realm of Earth, her handmaiden, The Great Spirit of the Moon, that The Sun would not feel awkward in their presence.

And The Great Spirit of the Moon was charming and clever and beautiful and wise and a wondrous compliment to the company of the light bringing sun. She was delighted and impressed by the dazzling majesty of her equal's radiant being. Charmed as well by her silvery radiance and beautiful form, the Great Spirit of the Sun loved her truly and with eyes that beheld only her splendor in all the universe. She too in her love for him was content and brought great happiness by their courtship and union. Together their later children, The Stars, would be brought into being by Mortal's regard for their exemplary qualities as devotaries to The World Queen and her Sky King.

Whence Came the Sea...
As their court grew, The Queen of the World came to require a functionary. And advisor to be her vizier and chancellor. And to counsel her in important matter with wisdom and knowledge. No spirit could match the storied sagacity of The Great Spirit of the Ocean for depth and profundity. None were as privy to the most ancient of lore and wisdom as she. And she became the closest Spirit to to her. Resting herself on the very bosom of The World Queen. Soothing her and always providing learned and knowing counsel. Beloved for her helpful service, King Sky embraced her as well as she embraces Queen Earth.Great Host of the Multi

The Great Host of the Multitude of All Spirits...
These greatest of spirits would beget a host of mighty offspring. The mountains, the rivers, and the winds. As chronicled in the history part of this WIKI. And those children would beget the Beasts of the wold. And in so doing, beget the Great Spirits of all beasts, the first immortals not of the Elemental Realm but whose dominion was purely of The Mortal Realm.They were high and mighty lords they, who dwelt in the Age of The Forest. and their mastery over their children was absolute.

Their vassals and servants, the beasts, were quarrelsome and bothered and vexed each other constantly. In their disputes they would often fall to blows and obliterate the physical incarnation of one another to prove a point or show the superiority of one position over another. Some beasts were better equipped for this than others, those whose arguments were supported by the backing of fang and claw held sway for some time before the beasts of horn and hoof rallied and learned to rely on great strength, speed or numbers to support their philosophies.

In time a great multitude of disembodied Spirits. Having lost their forms in arguments and contention, populated the world as incorporeal denizens. Immortal, living on and learning greater wisdom and knowledge and lore. And the world was easily shared between the incarnated and the disembodied.

The Advent of the Mortal Races
In time the ever expanding wisdom and kenning of the Spirits gave rise to a new and novel children, the mortal races of artifice and civilization. Elves and Dwarves were born into the land in forms that were like those of the beasts. Fragile and impermanent. And for the first time, creatures were in and of the bodies of all of the spirits. They knew only the lesser wisdom of the vassal spirits of the Great Spirits that they could perceive with their limited senses. Cut off from direct, experiential awareness of the eternal as a direct experience. They were beloved children of the Spirits and the Earth Elementals granted great lore and knowing to the Dwarves, keeping them close to their bosom within the safety of the Queen Earth. Sheltered from the squabbles of the Wind Spirits and their noisome battles with the Water Spirits. While the Wind and the Sun and the Moon and the plants all bestowed blessing and gifts and wisdom to the Elves upon the open surface of the world.

Following their arrival in time the spirits desired more children and Men were sung into the world, their stories woven into the song of creation and though less directly tutored and counselled by the Spirits, they were nevertheless their children and their foibles and triumphs delighted their creators. Their desperate clinging to their corporeal incarnations, because of their inability to directly conceive the truth of their transmigration into further incarnation made them inventive and daring and resilient. Their determination and perseverance amazed and delighted the spirits for the heights of deed and depths of philosophical belief entertained their makers without end.

Recognizing some flaws of their children, the Spirits then conceived a lesson that might be taught by example to Elves and Dwarves and Men. Haflings were born of the love of peace and simplicity and goodness of the Spirits and to this day the Halfings enjoy certain blessings of the Spirits approval of their ways and race.

The Advent of The Fey
In latter ages a curious gift of Elves and Dwarves and Men, delightfully unforeseen by the Spirits manifested itself to the wonder of the age. A generative, creative trance into which all of these child races could fall became known. Dream. In dreams the primal chaos of creation manifested in these children and some blessing beyond the knowing of the Spirits took root. Where these Child Races could conceive of and wholly envision new and never before known things. And in so doing, emit echoes of desire and wish and thought that when encountered by the body-less eternal spirits who dwelt in the world, new shapes and forms were given them. Created by the dreams and expectations of mortals, these spirits took on new shapes and with them a tinging of chaos not formerly inherent in their makeup. Mortal expectations became their directives and chaotic capriciousness often, their nature. New purpose was granted to them by the unconscious dreams of Mortals. and the nature of their manifestations became more certain in form. Chaos controlled by expectation. Shaped and molded by wish and longing. And The Fey were born.

Dryads, Pixies, Nymphs, Satyrs, Naiads, Spites and a host of greater and lesser disembodied Spirits were shaped. The limits of their forms replacing the formless potential of their original elemental bodies. Their connections to their originating Elemental Plane closed off in this new kind of immortal life. When Fairies die. their spirits return to the elemental planes. Not to rebirth upon the face of The Queen of the World, as do Mortal's spirits. Though them may choose to re-emerge into the mortal realm again or they may be summoned back after death by Wizards or Druids possessing their True Name.

The Coming of the Gnomes
Like Elves, Gnomes are very much themselves creatures of The Feywild. The Realm of Fairie. They were once a Fey race formed in the dreams of Elves and Dwarves and Men. And through their own desires, came to become a Mortal Race. And through their close association with their former brother and sister spirits, a Pact Race. They are the last formed of the Mortal Races of the Pact Races. They are closest to the Earth Elemental Spirits from which they originally were imagined and dreamt into being by mortals.