Feyfolk and Fey Worlds

Feyfolk is the all-encompassing term used to define a series of unknown intelligences that seem to affect the workings of the game's world by unknown means.

Feyfolk manifest themselves in a number of ways. The most common way, the one that first comes to the mind of the layperson, is through household or workplace mischief and the alleged "baby swaps", but this is almost always the work of human pranksters, forgetfulness and sometimes downright stupidity.

Another way for feyfolk to manifest is through dancing lights in the sky, especially around certain areas. These lights are relatively frequent, so their existence is not contested, scientists of The Steppes simply aren't sure what they are yet. Some conjurers claim that the existence of these dancing lights mark the spots where some fey worlds and the human one come close or even intermingle. According to these theories, the lights would be a byproduct of the "partial existence" of these beings in this world and humans probably generate similar ones in the fey worlds.

A number of people, in fact, claim to have been abducted by these visiting feyfolk and carried into their worlds. One of the distinctly recurring features of these abductions is the sometimes visible aging of the abductees, which is especially noticeable in children. There are reports of children missing for as little as a few days, returning later aged as much as a few years. Often, these people show an assortment of mental illnesses and prove unable to adapt to their native environments anymore.

Even if these abductees are not mentally ill on their return, they are almost inevitably unable to convey their experiences in these fey worlds in a coherent manner for different, often creative ways. Some are rendered dumb, some return without a tongue or hands, and yet others experience physical pain or simply start to sneeze uncontrollably whenever they try to remember or tell anything about these places.

The line between some feyfolk and the outer lands' beings is fuzzy. The main difference would be that the beings of the outer lands exist mostly in this world, while feyfolk come from the fey worlds. Furthermore, the opinion of otherworldly feyfolk towards humans seem to be as a rule even more indifferent and unconcerned than that of the outer lands' beings.

As for what feyfolk are exactly or how do they look like, it's impossible to tell. The kinds of feyfolk species and worlds are virtually infinite, and sometimes so radically different to the world of humans that they are unfathomable. Many unexplainable natural phenomena in this world and probably in others are actually believed to be the effect of unintended interactions with intelligences so different and alien that they are unable to perceive each other.