>>5897383“Humans are omnivores,” you note, though you do NOT reminisce aloud about any of your bacon-and-egg breakfasts with your father’s family, or in the Tower’s cafeteria. “I ask again: is every elf who has children with a human degrading the spirits of all their descendants, then? Is that what you’re saying?”
It comes out a little angrier than you’d intended by the end, but the idea that meat-eaters—like virtually every person you know who is not elven, or like precious MUFFINS—is ‘dark’ and ‘twisted’ rubs you the wrong way. The groundskeeper doesn’t take offence, though, even as your attendants exchange a worried look with one another in your periphery. Instead, he smiles beatifically and pats your hat, squashing your hat flat. You huffily adjust it, but say nothing, as the enormous moon-fairy continues:
“Not at all,” he says. “Any creature with any sort of soul can be redeemed and made pure, given time and effort… And the right vessel to direct their spirit’s journey along a goodly path. The mixture of Elf with Man may slow the progress of Elf... But it will speed the enlightenment of Man.”
You.. THINK you understand. So the objective of the True Fey, of the Bonum Chaoticum, is some form of total transformation of every being in the universe into something more akin to them, peaceful and beautiful and free, without even the casual cruelty of carnivory. The Sylvan Realms on Earth are almost there, save for the presence of (admittedly tame) predators… And the Unseelie Fey. What did THEY mix their essence with to end up as they did? Or were they always like that? If so… How and why would True Fey like them become so malignantly malevolent?
