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Originally Posted by Flyndaran
It's also the Victorian age reason for why they were once mighty greater than man, but by the "modern age" had dwindled to tiny pixies. Without God, Satan, or true eternal souls to maintain them, they naturally fade.
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Ah, I'd missed that connection.
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Originally Posted by Flyndaran
Christianity never liked anything fanciful or magical that couldn't be directly tied to their God, or Satan. Kind of a dark syncretism version of Roman's turning every foreign god into another name for their own.
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Well, naturally. Islam's not any different, really, hence the folklore about the Djinn, whose origins, like the Faerie, are divine/spiritual beings reverenced locally before the imposition of monotheism.