Sluagh
SLOO-ah
Sluagh Wilder
Overview
Sluagh are the things that have gone bump in the night for millennia.
They are the slithering things under the bed, and the Faeries who used
to take away bad children. Or at least, they used to be. In the older days,
the Sluagh whispered because they wanted to, and took only the children
who needed to be scared into being good or who were being abused. Over
time, they got a reputation for taking children indiscriminately, and as
parents began to use them as general bogeymen, they lived up to the
description.
Sluagh are the fae of
the underground. They look like something you might find under a rock that
had been long in its position, and they still have the abilities that made
them so frightening to bad children, although somewhere along the line
they lost the ability to speak in anything but their habitual whisper.
They tend to dislike crowds, and strong light or loud sounds hurt them,
which does nothing to make them more social with other kith.
Sluagh value those things
that most mortals, and even other Fae, tend to consider garbage. To them,
the teddy bear has just as much Glamour after it has been in the dump a
couple of years as it did when the child loved it, and they tend to collect
odd items that have no rhyme or reason that other fae can see. They are
all very interested by spiders, and an intact spider web is a very valuable
bargaining chip in any dealings with them. Their tendency to stay in the
shadows makes them information brokers to rival or even surpass the Boggans,
although only in certain areas, and anyone who wishes to gain information
from the Sluagh had better make sure the offer is worth their while.
Where the Redcaps use
intimidation to frighten, the Sluagh have instinctive fears that go back
to the very roots of humanity. Even the bravest Redcap does not want to
take on these fae. Although they are not very social with other kith, they
maintain relations with each other to trade items and information, and
an attack on one will be violently rebuked by all of the Sluagh in the
area, as such an attack compromises the territory of the whole group.
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