Banished (CTL)

The Banished, Charlatans or The Exiled, are terms used to describe True Fae who have been cast out of Arcadia by their fellows. Though their powers are lessened, most are still more than a match for all but the mightiest changelings.

Overview
Sometimes, the human world houses True Fae who can’t return to Arcadia. They’re less powerful, these Fae, and without their links to Arcadia, they are effectively mortal. There isn’t a single one of them who doesn’t want to go right back into Faerie.

Some are weak Fae who dawdled too long among people and forgot the way back. But some were kicked out, sentenced to mortality by some Arcadian court. It’s difficult to imagine what could make a Fae anathema to his own. This may happen due to a broken Contract, but certainly some have committed crimes so bizarre and alien, that humans or changelings couldn’t ever understand them, even if they were clearly explained in detail and illustrated with pictures.

Others make the mistake of becoming diseased, infected by contact with mortals. In Arcadia, everything is permissible, as long as it’s entertaining. A Fae can become attached to a mortal, but actually falling in love, actually taking that seriously? That’s not fun anymore. A Fae could wish revenge on some changeling, but if it becomes so important to the Gentry that it stops being diverting, then the Fae becomes a bore. The concepts of true love, true hate or any true emotion, are human concepts, and can only really be experienced by a being with a soul. The Others have no souls, but sometimes the emotion obsesses them. They become a little less Fae, infected with a false kind of humanity that they don’t understand. A being like this is dangerous to the Gentry, and dangerous to the human world.

Banished Fae, however they were barred from Faerie, become obsessed about returning to Arcadia. They desperately need that point of escape. The irony is that in the action of needing, in that obsession, the desire that overrides everything else, they become less and less able to re-enter Arcadia. It’s deadly serious for them, and that simple fact, more than anything else, is what keeps them excluded from Faerie forever. And it’s what makes them so terribly, terribly dangerous.