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Originally Posted by tshiggins
Just about every culture has its "wee folk" of one sort or another. They're all over the place in American Indian folklore (and particularly nasty, in some cases).
That's why I created a third set of fey folk, for Facets. A lot of those "little people" stories do not fit the highly Euro-centric division into the "Seelie" and "Unseelie" courts, nor do they indicate any other sort of hierarchy.
Basically, they're nature spirits and do things people find incomprehensible. So, the notion of unaligned "Wild Fae" seemed to work best.
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Perhaps it would be better to say that the local humans perceive the local fay according to the customs and ideas those local humans have. The fay have a mirrormask that reflects aspects of the person viewing the fay back at them. Thus each time someone sees a fay they've really only seen an aspect of themselves distorted out of shape.