Fey Energies

The energy of stories.

Ainm

The energy of the fey Name.

• Primary species: ancient, inmortals who represent the most ancient fey tales.
• Primary occupations: ceangloras, esotericists who collect True Names to use for spells; hjernists, esotericists who psionically connect with the subconscious, fey mind; cocaires, cooks who make foods to improve the fey body; amhranais, shapers and musicians who sing fey emotions and shape hearts, shape people, shape the world; and bog'lovchis, artisans who bind fey souls into books.

Arcane Shadow

The energy of silence ("fey sound"), of mystery, of secrets, fey shadows.

• Primary species: The Hidden, hidden folk who know many secrets.
• Primary occupations: arcanists, spies who wield mysteries and secrets to learn mysteries and secrets; deirfiurs, nuns of silence; and michurlis, maskers who wield fey shadows.

Ausa

The energy of character, of perspective.

• Primary species: andlits, strange folk who can take different character forms.
• Primary occupations: voelvas, witches who weave their perspective of the future, and nighbianis, maskers who take on different character perspectives.

Boasting Energy

The energy of hyperbole, of tall tales, of boasting.

• Primary species: jactans, small folk with big mouths who represent tall tales.
• Primary occupations: gasconists, bards who tell tall tales and boast to empower themselves or others.

Caercallan

The energy of magical cycles. Of witchcraft.

• Primary species: c'hoar, akhoata who represent the cycles of magic.
• Primary occupations: cailleachs, witches who are attuned to all magical cycles; voelva, witches attuned to the cycles of perspective; daesnies, witches who wield the Lore and the Tradition;

Crossing Energy

The energy of threshholds, crossroads, bridges, and transitions.

• Primary species: trolls, strange folk who dwell under bridges.
• Primary occupations: cosantoirs, warriors who protect crossings, bridges, or crossroads, and hidiras, transporters who make threshholds into portals.

Dream Energy

The energy of dreams and imagination. Specific types of dreams sometimes come with their own subenergies: argitsu (lucid dreaming), costat dret (daydreaming and imagination), and dybtanke (subconscious thought), and ethereal essence (shared dreams). Dreamstones are the fey element of earth.

• Primary species: miros, insubstantiates who are living dreams; cloch bheos, constructs made from dreamstones;
• Primary occupations: imagers, esotericists who capture dreams in mirrors to create illusions; imaginants, vagrants who wander dreams lucidly; pinzells, artists who paint with daydreams; hjernists, esotericists who psionically connect with the subconscious mind; filis, bards whose stories connect people's dreams; and scaoileadhs, esotericists who gather and release the power of dreamstones.

Ethereal Essence

The energy of connections.

• Primary species: barhanas, strange folk bonded to their locales.
• Primary occupations: bondsmages, esotericists who bond to other people, places, or things to draw magic

Fate

The energy of what is to be. Other facets of it include curgere, the energy created by the flow of the winds of fortune, and ausa, the energy of how we see the future.

• Primary species: djinn, strange folk who can see the future and change it.
• Primary occupations: seers, esotericists who see the future; voelvas, witches who see the future as their own perspective; and gattasi, transporters who sail the fated winds.

Fey Energy

The energy of legends, folklore, traditions, and superstitions. It can take alternate forms, such as faeriefire (the fey element of fire), fairy lights (the fey element of light), fiach (fey law), unfugl (fey chaos), fuinneamh (the fey hunt), karom (the energy of fey animals), nakkal (mimicry), sopper (fey fungi), the Lore (superstitions), zelenilo (fey plants and wood), caercallan (fey cycles), mion (fey microbes), maru (death), leighis (life), eorna (harvest), coimhlint (war), wind, faeriwood (wood), stone, airghead (fairy silver, metal).

• Primary species: fairies, strange folk who represent ancient tales; duilleogs, green folk representing fey plants; caipins, strange folk representing fey fungi; and bhrocaires, beast folk who represent fey animals.
• Primary occupations: wyrders, esotericists who wield the Lore; spreachs, laborers who know how to light lamps with faeriefire or fairy lights; dazzlers, entertainers who create illusions with fairy lights; bailitheoiri, merchants who trade ancient fey debts based on the Lore or the Tradition; saoistes, rangers connected to the cycle of the hunt; vadallats, wranglers of fey animals; kaesaens, maskers who can mimic anyone; tonleikaris, musicians who make fey fungi and spores dance; grinning mages, terrorists and con artists who wield fey chaos for elaborate pranks; daesnies, witches who wield the Lore and the Tradition; sadenjers, botanicists who work with fey plants; cailleachs, witches attuned to the cycles of fey energies in general; cumhran, artisans who make perfumes out of fey microbes; fiodoirs, weavers of the strands of death; beanna, zoanthropes who turn into giant elks via their lifeforce; corraners, farmers of fey farms; laochras, warriors of fey conflicts; siuineirs, artians who are carpenters of fey wood; gabhas, artisans who smith fairy metals; cruachs, artisans who wield fairy inventiveness; and mairnealachs, transporters who sail the fey seas.

Fiach

The energy of debt, of fey law, the Tradition.

• Primary species: bodachs, small folk with hunches who gather debts in their humps.
• Primary occupations: bailitheoiri, merchants who trade ancient fey debts based on the Lore or the Tradition.

Fool's Way

The energy of beginnings.

• Primary species: comezars, tall folk who have been there since the beginning.
• Primary occupations: fools. fools who cataylyze stories;

Fortune

The energy of luck, of chance, of risk. Also the energy of the winds of fortune, the fey winds.

• Primary species: pesperians, metahumans who sense risk and seek it
• Primary occupations: ramblers, gamblers who know how to sense the winds of fortune; fortune-sailers, transporters who sail the winds of fortune; circaturis, seekers of luck; and eitleogians, transporters who ride kites in the fey winds.

Fuinneamh

The energy of the hunt. Of tales of the hunt. Of rebirth.

• Primary species: the Wild Hunt, hidden folk who gather the souls of the fey.
• Primary occupations: saoistes, rangers attuned to the cycle of the hunt.

Kikota

The energy of true stories, objectivity.

• Primary species: cyclopes, strange folk who see things as they are
• Primary occupations: vigilis, journalists who tell true stories

Kor

The energy of what came before, of the past.

• Primary species: yokai, hidden folk whose forms change by era.
• Primary occupations: mirandobeks, scholars who study history and draw from it, and retsenzents, esotericists who view the past and pull things from it.

Lammat

The energy of lateral thinking and nonlinear stories.

• Primary species: saccads, insubstantiates that move unpredictably.
• Primary occupations: pazenns, transporters who can take lateral, nonlinear steps.

Mana

The energy of magic itself. It can take many forms - caercallan (witchcraft), lancaulam (sexual magic), ley lines (ordered magic), wild mana (chaotic magic), nakkal (mimicry), rownolygly (sympathetic magic), symbolism (symbolic magic), and ethereal essence (connective magic).

• Primary species: the cunning, strange folk who are the last inherent wielders of mana; wild talents, metahumans infused with wild mana; and leylings, insubstantiates who live in ley lines.
• Primary occupations: mages, esotericists who can wield mana to imitate other energies; kaesaens, maskers who uses mana to mimic other powers; wizards, esotericists who use more structured magic via ley lines; cailleachs, witches attuned to the cycles of magic; cori, Sensualists who use sexual magic; bondsmages, esotericists who connect to people, places, or things to draw magic; babkars, puppeteers who use dolls to engage sympathetic magic connected to other people; and wild mages, esotericists who can trigger wild magic.

Poioumenon

The energy of stories. It has many facets: crossing energy (the energy of story transitions), fool's way (the energy of beginnings), izvebda (the energy of performed stories), lammat (the energy of nonlinear stories), sijjets (the energy of plot), symbolism (the energy of symbolic stories), taia (the energy of analyzing stories), tajo (the energy of a story's ending), tutelary energy (the energy of a story's setting), ausa (the energy of perspective and character), kikota (the energy of true stories), and unnaneys (the energy of combining stories).

• Primary species: spirits, strange folk who embody stories, and ancients, inmortals who represent pourquoi stories.
• Primary occupations: fabulists, bards who are master storytellers; tkanaris, artisans who make things by drawing from pourquoi stories; fool, fools who catalyze stories; thespians, actors who gain power from performing stories; vigilis, journalists who tell true stories; pazenns, transporters who can take lateral, nonlinear steps; karuotuojses, warriors whose conflict is the plot; symbologers, esotericists who invoke the power of symbols; monteghads, scholars who analyze stories; pensadors, scholars who study endings; tutelars, warriors who bond to a setting; nighbianis, maskers who take on different character perspectives; negedehes, artisans who synthesize objects out of stories; passusians, entertainers who use any entertainment media to tell stories; ealams, scholars of magical philosophy; and hidiras, transporters who make threshholds into portals.

Seychas

The energy of the present, of what is happening.

• Primary species: hodierns, insubstantiates that exist only in the present.
• Primary occupations: clairvoyants, esotericists who sense what is happening in other places.

Stagma

The energy of celebrations, of wine and inebriation, of drunken tales.

• Primary species: ziles, insinsi who drink the stagma of their islands.
• Primary occupations: cupbearers, servants who gather celebration and happiness in their cups; pivars, artisans who make fey wines or other alcohols;

Symbolism

The energy of symbols, of philosophy, of meaning.

• Primary species: thaumari, insinsi who are empowered by symbols.
• Primary occupations: symbologers, esotericists who invoke the power of symbols, and ealams, scholars of magical philosophy

Tahalana

The energy of the journey.

• Primary species: nagas, beast folk who transform during journeys.
• Primary occupations: cardbearers, messengers who make long journeys and gather stories in magical cards; avaras, vagrants who survive off the journey; and saadhaks, seekers who find what they seek on the journey.

Taia

The energy of analysis, of criticism, of understanding.

• Primary species: arists, insinsi who analyze with a glance.
• Primary occupations: monteghads, scholars who analyze stories

Tajo

The energy of endings.

• Primary species: claudents, insinsi who see things back to front.
• Primary occupations: pensadors, scholars who study how things end or will end;

Tutelary Energy

The energy of setting, of place.

• Primary species: minotaurs, beast folk who protect a setting.
• Primary occupations: tutelars, warriors who are bonded to a place; onmyojis, esotericists who control the flow of energies by moving things about a place

Unfugl

The energy of mischief, of fey chaos.

• Primary species: biloko, small folk who cause mischief.
• Primary occupations: grinning mages, terrorists and con artists who create elaborate magical pranks

Unnanays

The energy of synthesis.

• Primary species: henedes, constructs fused together by negedehes.
• Primary occupations: negedehes, artisans who synthesize objects out of stories

The Word

The energy of communication and language. Style, semantics, syntax, and grammar all create their own aspects of the energy.

• Primary species: kalatis, insubstantiates made of living words.
• Primary occupations: allspeakers, messengers who spreak the First Language; kavis, poets who wield the energy of style; rakstvedises, wordsmiths who draw semantic energy; muraris, artisans who craft objects via lingual syntax; lehhaks, scholars who study grammar to draw power from it.

Full Fey Energy Map