Post by alysen on Jan 22, 2007 18:13:01 GMT -5
In years past, the goblin court would steal many human infants. Some say they used them for food, others claim they needed them for their barbaric magics. Most rumors say that the goblins had very little self-discipline when it came to harvesting these infants and if the Fae didn't want the humans to become extinct, one of the courts *had* to step in.
Left to the Unseelie court, as most messy duties are, the Fae reached an agreement with the Goblins. The goblins are allowed to take one human per year from the earth-world, but every 20 years or so, the human baby stolen is taken as "tax" by the Unseelie court.
This human child, raised among Fae, is an unusual child indeed. Many do not survive to adulthood, but those that do are offered the choice to stay among the Fae or to be returned back into the wilds of human civilization.
The current Summerchild has been quite successful in the courts, raising even to the ranks of the Queene's personal guard, the Frumentarii.
Of course, now that he's been exiled, no one knows what his fate will be.
Left to the Unseelie court, as most messy duties are, the Fae reached an agreement with the Goblins. The goblins are allowed to take one human per year from the earth-world, but every 20 years or so, the human baby stolen is taken as "tax" by the Unseelie court.
This human child, raised among Fae, is an unusual child indeed. Many do not survive to adulthood, but those that do are offered the choice to stay among the Fae or to be returned back into the wilds of human civilization.
The current Summerchild has been quite successful in the courts, raising even to the ranks of the Queene's personal guard, the Frumentarii.
Of course, now that he's been exiled, no one knows what his fate will be.