Changeling the Lost:True Fae of Significance in the Jacksonville, Florida area.
First, you must understand that in my games, unlike base NWoD, there are both friendly and unfriendly Fae. With that in mind, here are the True Fae I used for the Court of Seven Bridges LARP for 6 years.
Unseelie:
Mr. Sawgrass: He has a huge antebellum Plantation, occupying roughly the same space as Sawgrass in the mundane world. He has scores of changelings working as his slaves, of every seeming. Most of the kiths are appropriate to slaves and servants working on such a plantation, like his hunting hounds, his field hands, his overseers and guards, his cattle, and the like. Oddly, he also keeps sheep. Most oddly, he usually appears as a tremendously attractive black man. His realm is a huge plantation, nestled in the bosom of an infinite swamp. The grasses, by the way, are actually razor sharp as their name suggests. Most Changelings avoid the Sawgrass area, even in the mundane world. A very large number of local changelings are escapees from his domain.
The Dark Man: He rules the Dark City, the core of Jacksonville. He is Master of Shadows, King of Blood. His thugs are ogres and goblins. His pimps and whores are Fairest. He has big black Hellhounds and his own Wild Hunt…an Urban one. Many, if not most, vampires serve him. Few have seen him and escaped to tell the tale, but rumour describes him as a living shadow, and the extreme epitomy of the ‘O.G.’ The Dark City is a vile and extreme parody of urban life, where everything is crime and horror.
Haggard, The Fisherman: Also known as the King of the Sea. Keeper of the Soul Cages, wearer of the Carrion Coat. Has a hook for a hand. His domain is the docks, the angry ocean, the shipyards. His realm teems with mermaids, merrows, wizened shipbuilders and wrights, elemental water spirits, aquatic beasts and more. He cannot resist a wager. Served by a massive creature called the Red Bull. He has sworn never to love…and has only broken his word once.
The Sky King: A mighty giant, with a castle in the clouds. Rules an area analogous to NAS Jax and Cecil Field…has many aerial Beasts and Elementals in his service, as well as strange Ogres. He has hundreds of Hornets… Beasts who scramble and swarm when he feels threatened…which is often. His castle extends below the clouds, as well, and lightless dungeons there hold prisoners and bat-like sentries. His armies march among the clouds, made up of ogres and wizened alike.
The Northerner: A twisted dream of carpetbaggers and Union officers, the Northerner is the quintessential ‘barbarian’ invader, throwing her changeling armies against Mr. Sawgrass and other local fae over and over again. Many warlike fae start in her ‘employ’. She takes, most often, the shape of a stunningly beautiful Caucasian woman in a union General’s uniform, blood dripping from her fingernails and hair. She always smells of sex and cigars, and takes many lovers. Her domain is the area North of Jacksonville…never the city itself. She is also called the Red Queen…until the Civil War, she reputedly dressed as a British soldier…
The Gnome Queen: Lady Worm, the Dark Skitterer. She rules a lightless realm Underearth, a realm of gnomes, and dark elves, and worms, and crawling insects. Fungus, slime, weird crystals…all the expected trappings of a subterrene domain. She often resembles a cross between a Geiger Alien and a bloated nightcrawler. Her realm overlaps Jacksonville only underground, but does so in most places.
The Deep Lady: Master of the Hole, an aquatic underworld realm overlapping Kingsley Lake. She is weaker than many of the other Dark Fae, but holds some mighty secret that keeps the others at bay. Only a few changelings serve her, most commonly the cold blooded , fish scaled Beasts and Ogres known as Deep Ones.
Seelie:
St. John Drake, Dragon of the Rivers, Lord of Storms. He faces the Unseelie and combats them. Most powerful of the Seelie Fae, at least in this region. Riverside and Arlington are in his Arcadian territory.
Amalthea Waterborn, Ocean’s Lady, Mistress Whitecap, Unicorn Sovereign. Many kindly water fae, unicorns, and other gentle folk call her beach realm home. She offers refuge, but will not engage in conflict.
Raguel, an angel fallen for excessive zeal. Lord of White Fire, Paladin of Purity, the Light that Burns. He and his servants destroy all that they see as evil. They allow neither mercy nor compassion to stay their hand. But the righteous have nothing to fear.
The Gryphon King: His territory overlaps the northern wilderness as well as the family home area of Ireland. He it is, that the O’Keefe’s have their compact with. Most clearly Sidhe of all the local True Fae, he is King of Gryphons, not a Gryphon himself. His realm is nearly a stereotype of what mortals think Tir Nan Og might be like.
