Faery

Olympia: The Age of Gods PBEM (Oct 4 2000)

### 2.1.14: Faery

        Come away, O human child!
        To the waters and the wild
        With a faery, hand in hand,
        For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

            Stolen Child, William Butler Yeats

The Faery world lies in a nearby, but separate reality. Occasionally a Faery hill will exist simultaneously in both Faery and the outside world. During this time, mortals may cross between the two worlds.

Faery is protected by Faery Hunts, tough bands of elves armed with magical bows. Each hunt group consists of 48-200 elves, each with a combat rating of (50,50,100).

Rumors speak of a magical talisman, the elfstone, which allows mortals to pass unharmed in Faery, and to summon Faery hills to the mortal world.

Also associated with Faery is the Wild Hunt. The Wild Hunt is a group of High Elves and their hounds, who ride in the dark of the night across the land. Occasionally they abduct a noble, spiriting him away from all his companions and whirling him about the countryside, sometimes depositing him back where he started, and sometimes leaving him far away.