Build a city?

[Neubert]

In regards to my most recent post:
Depending on the damage on his arm and if he thinks it is needed, Wynston might want to make someone else temporary peace officer. Also, I am considering that something unusual are caught in his traps. Another person, a wolf.. It could even be one of the fey. Or just the signs of something being caught, but which had escaped (perhaps by breaking the trap in a violent manner?).

[Gamer Printshop]

Brother Jeredah is an 8th level Priest with access to healing spells. I doubt Wynston would be in much of a bind for too long with the above resource. We might consider a deputy to assist him, howver... thoughts?

[Nomadic]

I think that we can have wynston stay the night with jeredah so that the priest can properly see to his wounds in whatever way necessary.

I like the idea of a fey getting caught in a trap. Would be a good way to introduce them.

Also a question, how long until the next town meeting?

[Gamer Printshop]

Rather than a changeling caught in a trap, I was thinking that a child of one of the farm families gets coerced/kidnapped by the changelings in response to all the activity in the formely quite neighborhood.

However, I don't have access to the proper Monster Manual entry for a changeling - what is a DnD changeling? Is it a specific fey being, or a class of beings - knockers, red caps, sidhe. There's also the age old fairy tale, where a human child is stolen and replaced with a changeling in disguise of that child to spy and trick the child's parents and influence the humans around them.

A fey in a trap is a rather violent way to introduce them to setting, I think...

[Neubert]

I'm with GP on this one. Though the only changeling I know of is from Eberron, and I believe that is a humanoid..

[Ishmayl-Retired]

Yeah, I'm thinking more of the sidhe, more sprite-like than human-like.

[LordVreeg]

we're creators.  We create.

Remember 'fey mounds' from various lore?  I'd like mounds of lawn secluded in groves in the forst, mounds where during certain sidhe days they celebrate.  Perhaps relegated to the Mounds during the day as part of surrender terms to the Elves of the Waking Day, these fey are less friendly with other elves and humans, but know the dwarves more.  Fey cats and Banshees can come from the same grouping.
Hozat sound?

[Ishmayl-Retired]

Excellent!  So would your dwarves know of these fey?  Because I like the idea of them coming up as a bit of a surprise.

[LordVreeg]

The Whiskandir dwarves have very few dealings at current with the sidhe, and none in this area.  Totally a surprise.  

[Ishmayl-Retired]

I think we should keep the "sidhe" name as well :)  Or, just fantasize it to something like, "the Shee."

[LordVreeg]

The CeeBeeSHee?  
Just kidding.
The Whiskanir name is, 'the Brega', a contraction of the old, 'Brega Kor', which translates as 'rock-elves'.

Humans call them the 'Caleb Shee', the hidden sidhe.  Legends of the human folk say you might catch the young witches of the Caleb Shee by the river at dawn, beating the blood out of the spirit-clothing of the soon to die.

[Gamer Printshop]

Since we're creating, how about Innis Sidhe or Shee. Innis being "island" and could refer to coastal regions as well. We could call that fey mound "the Rath" as the irish called them. The fey have no gods, as they are magical beings themselves and might practice sorcery, rather than wizardry. The band of fey would be led by a noble born fey, perhaps a lesser princess or fey royal hand-maid, now ostracized from the fey court. Her band would include bards, dancers, crafters and artisans, a champion and band of fey archer scouts, an aged fey oracle, nurses, laborers - a complete hamlet of fey within the rath.

A child from the hamlet could disappear for over 24 hours, a changeling in the form of that child is found near the rath the next day and returned "unharmed but nolonger speaking", Brother Aval might be able to detect the fey presence. While the false child spies on the people of Para Bay, other members are doing mischief at the sawmill site - hiding tools, causing minor accidents, pretending to be a ghost.

If the encounter goes well, and the child is returned unharmed, it could now have an affinity to both the fey and sorcery, becoming the hamlet's first native spellcaster.

I also like the old belief (pre Gary Gygax) that fey sprites did not actually have wings - that's an Elizabethan addition to faerie lore, but more like witches on their broomsticks, tiny fey flew on twings between their legs like broomsticks. Going invisible at will, diminuitie size, at will spell-like abilities, as well as sorcery... this could be fun!

[Nomadic]

I am not so sure about the twig idea. Perhaps they simply don't fly. It may just be me but I don't see changelings as a flying fey.

The rest though sounds good.

[Ishmayl-Retired]

I like everything about that, GP, except the twigs as broomsticks.  However, I think, since we're creators here, let's take that idea and play with it a bit.  Instead of large butterfly/moth/insect-like wings, what if the wings on their back resembled fan-shaped twigs, branches, or vines?  Give them a bit more in line with nature.

[LordVreeg]

Big grape leaves for our little drunken shee
lilly-pad, perpetually wet ones for our march shee