The Fell are Chimerical creatures of Nightmare proportions.
Overview[]
Not all who made the trip from Arcadia remember their journey down the trods to Earth, but many recall terrible things along that route; huge black things that pursued them and tore at them with great fangs and claws. They remember sinuous bodies, lightening reflexes, and wickedly gleaming eyes that promised death to any creature they caught. A few even remember friends or kinsmen who fell to the beasts, and their screams as their faerie souls were shredded and lost.
Few nobles, and fewer still commoners, are aware of this aspect of the Resurgence. During the initial rush of Glamour following the moon landing, the doors to the Dreaming were flung wide open. The sidhe were not the only ones who used these portals to reach the Waking Lands. Chimerical intelligences, vast and malevolent, also forded the Mists from their home in the Nightmare Realms. Unlike the sidhe, however, they retain their memory. They harried Seelie and Unseelie alike as they fled the terror they evoked in the Dream Lords. They attacked time and again, shredding faerie souls with claw and fang. Although they do not remember it, the sidhe of both Courts battled side by side to prevent these nightmares from reaching the human world. They lost. Some entered Earth when panicked sidhe didn't close the gates quickly enough, though most remained in the Dreaming, prowling the Silver Path and waiting for their prey to return.
The Sidhe of House Balor remember the beasts most clearly and so have formed a knighthood known as the Guardians of the Gates dedicated to protecting the gateways and trods from the beasts. They patrol most of the known ways and combat The Fell on behalf of all the fae. Many Seelie owe their lives to the Guardians for their quick actions and that, if nothing else, gets House Balor respect and admiration from the noble Seelie houses.
(See also the Riders of the Fell.)
References[]
- CTD. Nobles: The Shining Host, p. 85.
- CTD. Pour L'Amour et Liberte: The Book of Houses 2, pp. 123-124.