The Origin of Faeries.

[Braaaah_de_Pit]

Gruumpf...

*Braaaah sitting by a campfire in the forest..*

Somebody told me a legend once.. Dunno if it's true.. but listen to me.



"Long long before when there was only 1 moon... and no civilisations could be see anywhere..
Tiny humans.. lilliput humans.. were living in the forest.. they used a special kind of butterflies.
They live in symbiosis.. they were protecting the caterpillars and the cocoons and they had silk for clothin.... and after that the Butterfly help them for transportation, for work and most of all it had magical powers.. the butterflies could turn away any predators.. even Dragon they say! Wherever the butterflies pass also.. vegetation was flamboyant.. so they use them for agriculture..
Then 1 day.. the race of butterflies slowly vanish from the forest.. then none could be found.. but 1 cocoon of the species was found.. intact and apparently alive.. The ancients, chiefs of tribe, sorcerers,... gather and try to figur out what to do.. many days after.. they decide to save the last of the special butterflies.. all the tiny humans gather and joined hands.. waitin the last of the magical butterfly to get out of the cocoon.. as soon the butterfly got out of his cocoon.. All the sorcerers cast a powerfull spell.. a spell that will change them for ever. The last butterfly glow in the air.. and glow stronger.. then every tiny humans was absorbed by this amazing light.
Minutes later, they all wake up totally different. They had all butterfly wings on their back.. and all could feel magical serinity in them..."

Gruumpf.. the last of the butterfly is in every faery..
know you know why they look like that.. gruumpf..

[Ethstrallel]

Nice. Very similar to the stories I 've read, there is always going to be some variation.

Here is more info, if interested -but historical: http://home.att.net/~waeshael/origins.htm

[Edited on 6/5/2003 by Ethstrallel]

[DivZ3r0]

yeah vey nice story braaah

[Fhman]

Good story (for a barbarian) ;)

[Braaaah_de_Pit]

Grrummpf..

Sometimes me intelligent! Sometimes me tell things I dun understand!

Gruumpf..

[Wismerhill]

Mais oui Braaaah ;)

But nice story .. classical in a way :)

[Duoae]

Cool, never thought about the origin before i just assumed they'd evolved from something - i think i prefer that to a "bastardisation" of two species.

I like the story though. And thanks for the link Ethstra.
Think i might post a story :)

[Edited on 8/5/2003 by Duoae]

[Tubalcain]

nice little divertissement- paints a pretty picture

[Absolution]

*clapping* wow what a nice story!

[Braaaah_de_Pit]

Gruummpf...
Me happy so many people like story of Braaaah!
Me gonna tell more of them then!

;)

Anyway, just curious about it now. The first time you heard about faeries, where did you think they came from? the evolution of the species? or did you think a faery has always been a faery?

[Duoae]

Well in the world that i've been developing for a whle now faeries are part of a creation called "The Fae" - that includes the ancestors of elves (since i see elves as a cross-breed or evolutionary species) and many other magick oriented beings.

So they all kind of evolved from the magick the gods used in the creation of all the universe - the first creation. As we evolved from sea dwelling creatures.....

[Tubalcain]

prefer to think of faeries as always existing- not overly keen on getting into evolution of species. To me, they are lost, like all the fey folk, in the mists of time- like King Arthur perhaps waiting to return. We are seperated from them because we have lost the 'old ways' but like the 'old straight tracks', the lay lines, they are still there for those who know how and where to look. This is my RL view, when I choose to muse about things fantastical. Games and books tend to define their own mythologies.

[Duoae]

Yeah tubal i think along similar lines in the world i'm trying to write; The Fae were mostly lost due to extinction through war - and the remaining ones took refuge in a separate world which lies in the same space but different times to our own (which they created to lock away the evil of their own kind and to protect the emerging powerless species - ones without magick).

ie. You can travel between the two, but as our world runs much slower than theirs, you can be in the other world/dimension for years and it only having passed minutes here.......

But these are just ideas :)

[blue_fire]

nice story brah, uve moved me enough to write one of my own about us powerful lil fairies. Thanks