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kittydesadeSo, yeah, no languages here today, just writing bollocks. The more my writing goes off the rails, the worse I become about any text-related habit. Fortunately I think I've managed to get this train back on track. And in order to do this, a friend asked a very good question, which is how do the fae (in my world of Nameless, that is) treat madness and immortality? So, here.
Sidhe are known to go mad if they are inbred, older than five centuries, or subject to great stresses over the course of their life. Not overtly gibbering mad, but just slightly off in certain ways.
Sluagh are considered so strange that no one knows what it would be like if one of them went mad, except that it would be terrifying and most likely very dangerous.
Selkies generally don't run mad. Or if they do, no one ever finds out about it.
Redcaps are in the same boat as the Sluagh, but among themselves what they look for is a lack of control rather than a deviation from the norm. Redcaps who cannot control themselves according to their own standards are not heard from again.
Love-talkers are all a little bit whimsical at best, slightly off, downright nonsensial at worst. The Sidhe consider that any madness they may suffer is a result of starvation or injury, and the rest of the fae don't think much on them at all.
No one knows what the Phouka are thinking.
Brownies, Hobs, and Bucca are so looked down on that their state and wellness of mind isn't considered, but among themselves, madness is usually caused by circumstance and makes the afflicted an object of pity, to be then cared for by the rest of the clan.
Sidhe are known to go mad if they are inbred, older than five centuries, or subject to great stresses over the course of their life. Not overtly gibbering mad, but just slightly off in certain ways.
Sluagh are considered so strange that no one knows what it would be like if one of them went mad, except that it would be terrifying and most likely very dangerous.
Selkies generally don't run mad. Or if they do, no one ever finds out about it.
Redcaps are in the same boat as the Sluagh, but among themselves what they look for is a lack of control rather than a deviation from the norm. Redcaps who cannot control themselves according to their own standards are not heard from again.
Love-talkers are all a little bit whimsical at best, slightly off, downright nonsensial at worst. The Sidhe consider that any madness they may suffer is a result of starvation or injury, and the rest of the fae don't think much on them at all.
No one knows what the Phouka are thinking.
Brownies, Hobs, and Bucca are so looked down on that their state and wellness of mind isn't considered, but among themselves, madness is usually caused by circumstance and makes the afflicted an object of pity, to be then cared for by the rest of the clan.