GrimLewd #8 Banished Fey (Patreon)

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Meet Nui! The first of the Fey introduced into GrimLewd. I wanted to try coming up with a race that fills the "pretty ones with pointy ears" niche, while being interesting from the grim fantasy point of view. I think I got it.

Yes, all of them have glowy hair in different colors. Yes it is very inconvenient while trying to be sneaky.

Lore:

The Fey: A race born as a result of an ancient attempt at improving humanity through magic. Specifically by combining human souls with remnants of a dead trickster god. A mostly successful effort. They are all beautiful, strong, long living, magically gifted and almost completely immune to corruption. With two caveats:

-While in the human realm, their experience of emotions and sensations is muted. Not completely cut off, but they need stronger stimulus to really feel something.

-Their trickster souls make it difficult for them to pass up a challenge or a game of chance. They are not quite slaves to these impulses, but it is something they have to actively resist.

Realms: Different worlds, separated by vast seas of magic and corruption. Traversal between them is incredibly difficult. Natural gates appear sometimes, but they are extremely dangerous because they bleed magic and corruption. Safe gates are possible, but difficult to create. Lower realms encompass all of the human world.

The Fey realm: Thousands of years ago the Fey retreated into their own realm, carved out of a corpse of a God. Inside they don't suffer from the curse of unfeeling. While it's not entirely without its dangers it is way safer than the "lower realms''. Vast majority of the Fey prefer to live there. Very few leave of their own will.

Unfortunately, the Fey realm is not that big. The rulers of the realm regularly dump the poor, the criminals and the politically inconvenient into the lower realms for humans to deal with.

Some of the banished Fey manage to figure out how to find happiness in the lower realms after a difficult adjustment. Some hold on long enough to manage to buy their way back into their homeland.

And some... Well... Live short, violent lives, trying to chase strong sensations.

So those are my "elves, but better". I think that they have some storytelling potential. Depressed weirdos? Mega sluts? Serial killers? Crazy hobos? All of the above?!?

I hope that you like them!