[UA]: Faeries

[Kevin Mowery]

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> From: Stacy Stroud <sstroud at uky.campuscwix.net>
> To: UA at purpletape.cs.uchicago.edu
> Subject: Re: [UA]: Faeries
> Date: Thursday, February 25, 1999 4:24 PM
> 
> >Faeries in UA.
> >
> >Debate.  Discuss.  Dissect.
> >
> 
> Mmm.
> 
> Could be "demons" -- i.e., the spirits of the restless dead.  (If I
recall
> correctly, at least one of the classic theories of faerie origins holds
> that that is, in fact, what they are.)
> 
> Maybe the classic faerie changeling is not a *new* child at all, but the
> original child taken as a host-for-life by some enterprising demon.  (An
> infant inhabited by an adult mind; scary thought.  Weren't changelings
> supposed to have the gleam of preternatural intelligence in their eyes?)

	I like the way you think.  I think this is the best way to handle faeries
in UA, since there don't seem to be many nonhumans in the UnAverse, and I
think it should be kept that way.  Even demons are just dead humans.

Kevin "Professor Bobo" Mowery _____________________ profbobo at io.com
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