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The gates to Arcadia, the original paradise, are closed.
Only the world of humanity remains. Without any awareness of our true nature, humankind crushes us beneath its banal heel.
Joy and laughter are gone; only the Dreaming remains.
We are changelings, the forgotten ones, neither fully
fae nor wholly mortal. The last of our kind on Earth, we have built ourselves an invisible kingdom. We are everywhere, yet
you have never seen us. We hide, not behind some fragile Masquerade, but in plain sight, with the power of our Glamour. We
exist within a real world of make-believe where "imaginary" things can kill, and "pretend" monsters are real.
Raised from the elements by the Fir Bolg, the Mother
Goddess thought that they would be her new children. But, proud & haughty, they spurned her offer of friendship &
carved out their own place in the land of Gloria.
Pooka
We sit in the forest watching as man destroys
our woods and hunts our friends; We sit in the courts and watch as the sidhe plot with cold iron hidden within their cloaks.
Both Man and Sidhe do not notice us. To them we are nothing...because of this we can work unnoticed...
It's not that we hate them, In fact
it's our over powering love of them that drives us to mistrust them...We tried to guide Man, we tried to be guided by the
Sidhe... neither has worked
 REDCAPS
A malevolent goblin, redcaps are easily
distinguishable for their namesake red hat and fiery red eyes. Their caps are red because they dip them in the blood of their
human victims. Redcaps wears iron boots, but are swift on their feet. They reside in castles and watchtowers along the English-Scottish
border, however, they move their residence often to avoid detection. Redcaps have sharp eagle's talons with which they kill
humans. Short and stock, redcaps have long white beards and look like old men. Like any goblin, all that is needed to repel
them is the use of holy words.Redcaps share one thing in common above all else; hunger. The angry voices in their ravenous
bellies never really cease, and if anything creates a bond in this unruly kith, it's this shared enemy. But what most other
kiths don't know is that when a Redcap focuses, and appeases their hunger in some stupendous way, they can use this shared
connection to speak with other Redcaps. The communication comes as growling voices and half-imagined sights as they rest in
a sleepy, sated state after a massive meal, but the memories last long after the stomach is hungry again.
In short, whenever a Redcap eats a very
large meal and rests briefly afterwards, they can communicate with their bretheren in their sated, half-asleep state. The
communication is done with audio and visual means, and can even have slight other senses, but nothing overwhelming.
Non-Redcaps have trouble even understanding
this sort of communication, but if they truly understand enough of the kith to know what to try (Redcap Lore x3), then they
can starve themselves for a three days (which may impart negative *lethargic*, *decrepit* or *witless* traits, or may
even
require Willpower expenditure to deliberately starve themselves), and
then progress as Redcaps do. Of course, the idea
of people deliberately starving themselves tends to upset most Redcaps on its own, and when it's being used to eavesdrop on
their communications, they can get a little
pissy.
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