Fae

Any fae folk characters or Sup Forums related works that you like?

Also, what fae folklore do you want to see in Sup Forums related works?

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I like dragons, not fairies

That's okay. And fae folk just doesn't cover fairies, by the way

Companions of the Twilight got some pretty sweet Fae.

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the only good fea is a squished fea

You might be interesed in the books of magic mini (i forget which issue)

Does "Beautiful Darkness" count as fae?

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A lot of Marvel UK and Captain Britain stories involve Fae.

Same with DC's Seven Soldiers, Demon Knights, Etrigan, Madame Xanadu all being related to Camelots

Hellboy has dealt with the fae before, and his girlfriend is now the new Queen Mab.

>not liking both
faerie dragons are cute

This is hilarious, but I wouldn't want to anger any fae

I'm trying to get a script off the ground about a park Ranger service having to deal with various Fae type creatures.
It's a fun setting.

>tfw you're a confusing mixture of fae and mutant powers with some acquired demon shit
>tfw you never appear so it will never be cleared up

Remember kids, don't sell your soul to demons.

God Save the Queen by Mike Carey was pretty good. Not great in my opinion, but it captured what I imagine faeries interacting with humans would be like. Brutal and heartless, mostly.

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Amen

I'd say so.

>Brutal and heartless, mostly.
It would be whimsical too, I'd think. Maybe not for the humans but fae do love their whimsy.

This. Fae are skeevy, psychotic little shits. If you see one, bust out the cold iron, and don't hold back.

That actually sounds interesting, especially if you utilize actual fae creatures and not Disneyfied ones

It's kind of a mix to be honest. Most things look weird and are generally harmless, but there's a few rambunctious troublemakers. I want the story a bit lighter so they won't be too menacing/malicious. It's still in development though so maybe I'll change things up.

Well the fae are not in menacing mode all the time. They're whimsical and fun-loving as well (fun in their terms). So that's alright. Best of luck.

I have read somwhere that originally in the myths and legends the fairies were human sized, is that right?

Really the size varies on type, many were small but they don't necessarily half to be.

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This right here. Probably best fae-ish character I've ever seen in an actual film.

gayyyyyyyyy

They vary. Fae folk are not just the tiny winged fairies that are now popularized by Disney.

> is a type of mythical being or legendary creature in European folklore, a form of spirit, often described as metaphysical, supernatural, or preternatural.

There are the brownies and kobolds who help you with your house chores; there's the Rusalka, Jenny Greenteeth, etc who are like female water spirits/nymphs that haunt lakes and rivers,luring kids and men; the Kelpie, which is a water horse; Selkie, which you probably know from Song of the Sea, and a whole lot more.

There was a pastebin posted in a previous thread that had pdf links to a shit ton of fae books.

Fucking Fae.

This was the tinkerbelle in that French Peter Pan, right?

My grandparents told me stories of the Fae (or the Finnish equivalent), that scared me shitless when I was a wee lad.
They told me of the Näkki, a monster that lives in the water, and drowns kids, they told me of the Woodland folk, who would lure and enchant people who entered their woods, and those people would never be seen again, they told me of the gnomes that live under the ground, and curse you if you step on the roofs of their homes, or invite you to their underground realm, and trap you there, for hundreds of years.

Fuck the fae. I was super scared of them as a kid.

What was that fae who would do your house chores as payment to your good deed but didn't want to be thanked, and if you do he'll just curse you for all eternity? That story's always funny

Sluuuuut

Tell us the spooky Finnish fae stories of old!

I don't remember any very well, I was a little kid when I was told them.
Common themes were shit like changelings, people being lured into woods for years, animals being cursed (death sentence for farmers basically) people simply disappearing, never to be seen again etc.

In the stories I was told, the Fae were fucking dicks.

I just want more ugly ones.

>They told me of the Näkki, a monster that lives in the water, and drowns kids

I love this. It's a common theme in fae stories from around the world. I know they probably used such faes to scare children from playing near dangerous waters, but I still find it interesting.

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Anything with Tim Hunter in it generally ends up involving the Fae, unless it's a crossover.

>drown kids
>disappear kids in woods
Are all fae stories made up by negligent parents about their idiot children that get lost in the woods?
>no, my son is an excellent swimmer, a magical creature must have drowned him!

Gonna dump what I can find, but first--the cutest selkie movie to ever grace us.

More like cautionary tales told to moronic kids so that they wouldn't go near the woods or lakes and get lost & drown.

A lot of them are bogeymen, meant to scare kids so that they won't even get into situations where they might drown or get lost in the woods.

It's more to scare children from playing in dangerous lakes, bogs, marshes, etc, I think. And maybe to explain weird deaths just to comfort them

>The púca. Primarily a creature of Irish folklore. Considered to be bringers both of good and bad fortune, they could either help or hinder rural and marine communities. The creatures were said to be shape changers which could take the appearance of black horses, goats and rabbits. They may also take a human form, which includes various animal features, such as ears or a tail.

> "old people used to say that the Pookas were very numerous...long ago..., were wicked-minded, black-looking, bad things...that would come in the form of wild colts, with chains hanging about them", and that did much to harm unwary travellers. Also, children were warned not to eat overripe blackberries, because this was a sign that the pooka has befouled them.

>Brownies are said to inhabit houses and aid in tasks around the house. However, they do not like to be seen and will only work at night, traditionally in exchange for small gifts of food. Among food, they especially enjoy porridge and honey. They usually abandon the house if their gifts are called payments, or if the owners of the house misuse them. Brownies make their homes in an unused part of the house, often in attics and holes in walls.

Also a playable race in Changeling: The Dreaming.

>Muma Pădurii is a spirit of the forest in a very ugly and old woman's body. Sometimes she has the ability to change her shape. She lives in a dark, dreadful, hidden little house.

>She is thought to attack children, and because of this, a large variety of spells (descântece in Romanian) are used against her.

>This (step-) mother of the forest kidnaps little children and enslaves them. In one of the popular stories, at some point, she tries to boil a little girl alive, in a soup. However the little girl's brother outsmarts Muma Pădurii and pushes the woman-monster in the oven instead

Hansel and Gretel without the sweets

>The Leshy or Lesovik is a male woodland spirit in Slavic mythology who protects wild animals and forests

This shit looks spooky as fuck

You have to understand, that in the times from which those stories originate, the world outside of your tiny ass village in the middle of nowhere, was fucking dangerous, people had lots of kids (no contraceptives), and had no time to watch after all of them due to farm work being extremely time consuming for both men and women.
Thus, they had to come up with stories to keep the retarded kids from dying off from stupid, avoidable shit, like getting lost in the woods, or drowning in the nearby pond. Especially when tons of kids kept dying to shit that could not be avoided already, like disease, starvation, and wanton violence inflicted upon your people by the neighboring tribe, dickass nobles in later eras, wars, and consistently, by mother nature itself, in the form of wolves and bears.

Life was harsh, parents had no time to watch after every single one of their spawn, and thus their only option was to scare them away from doing stupid shit with stories about dickass fae that would kill them if they do stupid shit.

Aisling in Secret of Kells had a pretty good thing going on too.

I think we can all agree that Brian Froud is the best fae artist, right?

I need to buy the rest of his books.

>Akaname- Japanese folklore: a humanoid creature that has a long poisonous tongue. It goes into dirty bathrooms and licks it clean. It is thought that this story was made to scare children into cleaning their bathrooms.

>The akaname is the "personification of the fear of using a dark bathroom late at night".

l m a o
what the fuck

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Speaking of fairfolk, anyone know any good sources for fae lore? I want to write a story about them but I feel my understanding is simplistic.
I really latched onto the idea of them being kind of petty and having their own skewed rules about things but it feels a bit shallow.

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There's a ridiculous amount of yuri porn of akaname.

Also, the most fucked up bathroom shit in Japanese mythology is Aka Manto.

Here's a pastebin of a shitload of fae-related books. Most have links to digital copies. Hope this helps your research.

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I still feel bad I passed by his book and didn't buy it.

Alan Moore?

>There's a ridiculous amount of yuri porn of akaname.
why

>Aka Manto
>If a person is sitting on the toilet (usually the last stall), a mysterious voice will ask them if they want red paper or blue paper. If they answer red paper, they will be sliced apart until their clothes are stained red. If they choose blue paper, they will be strangled until their face turns blue. Any attempt to outsmart Aka Manto by asking for a different color will result in them being dragged to the Netherworld. If they say yellow he will shove their face in the toilet but they will survive.[1] If you say no paper, he will depart.

> Often described as a beautiful man in life and hounded constantly by admirers, he now wears a mask to hide his face.

If you want the development of fairy mythology over time, hit the library.

If you want a decent collection of fairy myths, I recommend Fairies by Brian Froud and Alan Lee and books of the like (Fairies itself is a bit light on unseelie myths).

Real fucking neato.Thanks.

>why
Are you an idiot?

I thought yuri is for pure love, not licking dirty bathrooms

Has this picture ever been more relevant?

If you want some nightmares, read up on the Nuckelavee.

Oh yeah that. Still, no thanks, /d/.

Man that thing is so fucked up.

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Saw one of his books in a now long-dead bookstore.
Shame I didn't have the money for it.

Tony DiTerlizzi ain't half bad either, though.

Neat, thank you.

Yes. There were small ones too, but they didn't get popular until the post-medieval era. Faeries are like humans but beautiful, scary, and otherworldly. No butterfly wing bullshit

>Saw one of his books in a now long-dead bookstore.
>Shame I didn't have the money for it.
I was in this exact scenario, user. That "bookstore" looked like a small warehouse, but it had lots of cool books that I wanted. There was this book about making miniature houses and all kinds of dollhouse furniture, a good-looking hardbound version of Anna Karenina, Froud's books and other fae books. I still feel bad I didn't buy any of them.

Best/worst fae folk guy coming through. Hellboy is full of interesting fae related characters,but none as impresive as Gruagach of Lough Lane.

Dunno about a particular fae I'd like to see in a comic. Never thought about it.

I want more shota fairies!

It was a small bookstore at a mall, specialized in imported stuff, also one of the few places where one could get RPGs in my city.

I wonder if that kind of books about fairies and the like just doesn't sell enough to keep business afloat.

>It was a small bookstore at a mall
Mine was also a small bookstore but looked kind of like a warehouse in a small mall too. It's like they rented that one area in the mall, no fancy ceiling, and I think just bare paint, and just cemented floor, because it's cheap. They had really good books though and I still feel bad for not supporting them.

>I wonder if that kind of books about fairies and the like just doesn't sell enough to keep business afloat.
In the bookstore I went to, I think it's because they were kind of hidden, and the books need you to really spend money. With the right advertisement, I think that bookshop would have sold well. But eh I live in a poorfag SEAsian country anyway, so it's always harder for small bookshops to stay afloat.

I might be in the minority but I want this series to be adapted in liveaction. Netflix? HBO?

source

Sword Art Online

Made me snort, user

well they both have a black swordsman

That's the joke.

Really, this far in the thread and no Elinore?

I was waiting for you to post her, what took you so long?

A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.

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