[Spoilers?] Blue and Orange Morality: Adapting the Faerie Courts

[KarlKost]

Originally Posted by Johnny1A.2

Now one more thing: suppose these Sidhe actually can permanently die...from contact with iron...

All of a sudden a lot of legends about Sidhe behavior suddenly make sense.

I was thinking in another possibility... What I call "oathbreaker", the only fate that the Fae fear.

Basically, one Fae can "consume" the Fate of other Fae... When a Fae consumes another, it "breaks away from the cycle of Fate". In game terms, the Fae consumes all the permanent IP of another, including them to its own. It makes the Fae VERY powerful, but at a terrible cost: it can no longer get Fate's aid (meaning: it no longer gets extra Fate Points to buy off disadvantages). It can use temporary IP points to buy or improve its traits, at the cost of more disadvantages, and it can increase its levels of permanent IP by consuming other Faes, but in time, those cursed beings end up as terrible monsters of pure instinct, malice, madness and brute power.

Also, an oathbreaker is considered the greatest danger in Fae society; becoming one means that all Fae will hunt it down to the end of the multiverse (the tradition the Fae call "The Wild Hunt").

The Hunters that put down an oathbreaker can consume the creatures Fate without dooming themselves; the Wild Hunt, thus, is very attractive to all Fae, because its the only way they can increase their own power without needing to relly on Fate's aid (and, to successefully put down an oathbreaker would surely get a HUGE favor from Fate, on top of any permanent IP points that the hunters may absorb from the creature).

There are only three ways to become an oathbreaker:
- willingly consuming the Fate of another Fae, thus permanently destroying - this is VERY uncommon, and only the deepest insane hate could compel such a thing, or the most absolute maniac powermongering that believes that it could consume the world or something like it.
- being killed with Iron will turn the poor Fae into a oathbreaker
- when a Fae kill another using Iron, both turn into oathbreakers... That means that the Fae will NEVER use Iron against each other (again, such circumstances are the stuff of the legends)

So, the most common source of oathbreakers are... The ignorant mortals.

And that's one of the reasons why some machiavelic Fae manipulate mortals to use Iron against its enemies... Its the only way the Fae can vanquish its enemies (plus, it can call a Wild Hunt and increase its powers)