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who’s now a dark faery? Then they could have a big fight! That would be cool. NARRATOR: Hmm … well, you’ll have to wait until you’re inside the ice palace to find out if Flynn’s former mentor is really working for the Ice Queen, but if he is, Zach gets 3 Essence. Working Wonders The fey use their magical Essence to bend, twist, and break the laws of nature by which everyone else must abide. Faeries alter physics, probability, and even reality at a whim. In the game, your faery can use her Essence to break the rules. Challenges, Contests, & Duels Faeries and other magical beings can use Essence to affect the outcome of a challenge, contest, or duel. By sacrificing some of her motes of Essence, your faery can exceed her normal abilities to succeed where she might otherwise fail. See p. 36 for more details. Gifts Some Gifts, such as various forms of magic, require motes of Essence to activate. Others tap your faery’s Essence to fuel exceptional feats. These are described in One of the Fey: Your Faery. Changing Reality Faeries can use their magical Essence to alter reality itself—shifting probabilities and possibilities to make events come out in their favor. This gives players some control over the course of the adventure, though the Narrator still has the final say on how many motes of Essence must be spent or on what changes occur. Only faeries controlled by players can use Essence to change reality—faeries or other creatures with Essence controlled by the Narrator cannot use these powers. Catch a Clue The fox managed to escape with the bunny, but a frightened field mouse points out the — A Sense of Wonder — — 43 — Heroic Effort In dire circumstances, a faery can expend all her remaining Essence motes (even if she only has one) to change reality, whether or not she normally would have enough remaining Essence to do so. The Narrator decides whether a heroic effort will work—usually, only when things are at their worst and everything else has failed. For example, the pixie Willow and her friends have been captured by goblins and imprisoned in a dark, dank dungeon deep beneath the halls of the goblin king Sluag. The situation looks hopeless, and no one has enough Essence left to summon help. So Willow courageously expends all her Essence motes to call on the Faery Queen for aid. Leanan appears in the dungeon as Willow, having used up her life force to save her friends, falls into a deep magical sleep. Of course, the Narrator might judge that Willow’s heroic act is worthy of an Essence reward, either after she awakens naturally or even to enable her to wake immediately, albeit very weak. The Narrator should not reward foolhardy or unnecessary uses of Heroic Effort, however, or it renders the penalty of sacrificing all Essence moot. path the fox took. You neglected to write down the owl’s poem like he suggested, but a little bird who overheard the owl flies by singing the poem. Sometimes all you need is a little hint or reminder from the Narrator and you can do the rest on your own. You can spend 1 Essence mote to have the Narrator give you a clue, usually conveyed by a faery or animal too small, weak, or busy to be able to help you in any other way in the adventure.
Call for Help If only your friend the bat were here, he’d be able to guide you through the dark cave. Or if Mara, the pixie who sent you on this quest, were here, she could tell you what to do next. Or if the Faery Queen was here, she could heal all the faeries in the group. You can spend 2 Essence motes to have an animal friend or another faery show up in the nick of time to help your faery win a fight or face some other challenge. The faery will be about the same ability level as the rest of the group; an animal friend will be the equivalent of any other animal friend already with the group. You can spend 3 Essence motes to summon a more powerful faery to aid yours. She will probably be more experienced than your faery, and will demand a boon in return for her service. She’ll also probably lecture your faery about why she got into trouble and what she can do to prevent that sort of thing from happening in the future. Or you can spend 4 Essence motes to have your faery summon Leanan, queen of the good faeries. This brings her to your faery’s present location but doesn’t guarantee her aid. Your faery must persuade Leanan to help. The Faery Queen loves her subjects but dislikes being called to solve problems that faeries could have handled on their own. If she decides that your faery doesn’t really need her help, Leanan will leave, but the spent Essence won’t be refunded. Manifest Gift Normally, faeries are limited to Gifts purchased in creation. Yet the fey are capricious magical beings only loosely bound by reality. At great effort and cost, a faery in dire straits can briefly manifest a new Gift. A player may spend Essence to have her faery gain any individual Gift for the duration of one scene. The Essence cost equals twice the point cost listed to purchase the Gift during faery creation; the Gift of Seer normally costs 3 points, so manifesting it temporarily costs 6 Essence motes. Innate Gifts associated with a particular type of faery, such as the Gifts of Pixie Dust for pixies or Champion for sprites, cannot be gained in this way. — A Sense of Wonder — — 44 — Any Essence costs associated with activating or using the temporary Gift also must be paid as normal. Example NARRATOR: The sprite prince is too weak from his long imprisonment in the Goblin King’s dungeons to escape with you. “Go on without me,” he says. “Save yourselves.” ELIZABETH: Oh, no. If only Willow’s brownie friend, Katria, were here. She has the Gift of Empathy…hey! Using her memories of all the times Katria has unselfishly used her Gift to heal others as inspiration, Willow reaches deep within herself and calls forth her own healing powers. NARRATOR: Using the Essence power of Manifest Gift? OK, since the Gift of Empathy normally costs 3 points at creation, it will cost you 6 Essence to gain it for this scene. You realize you’ll also have to spend 1 Essence to use the Gift, and then give 1 to 3 of your own Essence to the prince, right? ELIZABETH: I have just barely enough, and we’ve got to save Prince Brand. Plot Twist Your faery finds a forgotten treat in her pocket to soothe a snarling beast. The goblins who kidnapped a unicorn leave a vital clue behind. A second look reveals a handy fallen log crossing the raging stream. The ogre chasing your faeries gets stuck in a pool of mud. You can spend 1 to 3 motes of Essence to change some aspect of the world or story being described by the Narrator. The cost (which is set by the Narrator) depends on how radically you propose to change things. A simple change that gives your faery a momentary advantage, or one that helps move the story along, costs 1 Essence mote. A change that overcomes or negates a key challenge in the adventure costs 2 Essence motes. And a change that completely alters the course of the story costs 3 Essence motes. The Narrator has the final say on plot twists, and can disallow proposed changes, in which case no Essence is spent. A better solution, though, is for the Narrator to suggest a similar plot twist that would be permissible.
Page 2 and 3: — Credits — Authors: Patrick Sw
Page 4 and 5: Preface It is not children only tha
Page 6 and 7: — A Pixie’s Tale — Flynn smil
Page 8 and 9: Introduction You are a tiny, magica
Page 10 and 11: A Brownie’s Tale Katria the brown
Page 12 and 13: Once Upon A Time The Faery World No
Page 14 and 15: — Once Upon a Time — Faery Lore
Page 16 and 17: Sprites, unlike most other faeries,
Page 18 and 19: Befitting their nature, pookas take
Page 20 and 21: — Once Upon a Time — Faery Lore
Page 22 and 23: Other hags have glamour magic, whic
Page 24 and 25: Here There Be Dragons: Creatures pr
Page 26 and 27: Choose Attributes Next, you begin d
Page 28 and 29: A brownie can only turn herself, he
Page 30 and 31: pooka, has a Body score of 4, but h
Page 32 and 33: Lore 2 points Your faery’s love o
Page 34 and 35: A Sense of Wonder How to Play Fa e
Page 36 and 37: Challenge Difficulty Task Rating Ev
Page 38 and 39: herself. When two or more faeries c
Page 40 and 41: during the duel. This might be a br
Page 42 and 43: Arms & Armor Some faeries fight wit
Page 46 and 47: For example, on a quest to save chi
Page 48 and 49: good intentions gone awry leads to
Page 50 and 51: A Sprite’s Tale Riding on the bac
Page 52 and 53: Faery Princesses & Magic Wands Titl
Page 54 and 55: — Faery Princesses & Magic Wands
Page 56 and 57: — Faery Princesses & Magic Wands
Page 58 and 59: Here There Be Dragons Creatures, Be
Page 60 and 61: Effortless feats of magic, such as
Page 62 and 63: Fantastic Creatures Fantastic creat
Page 64 and 65: Hummingbird Attributes Body Mind Sp
Page 66 and 67: Adversaries and Challenges Throw in
Page 68 and 69: — Tales of the Fey — Jack and t
Page 70 and 71: If the faeries approach her after e
Page 72 and 73: with them unless they manage to tri
Page 74 and 75: to help a princess in distress, eat
Page 76 and 77: Allow the faeries time to discuss h
Page 78 and 79: Tight-lipped, Isabelle picks up the
Page 80 and 81: Example summons might include: •
Page 82 and 83: excuses himself and suggests the fa
Page 84 and 85: William makes a big show of taking
Page 86 and 87: • Maggie Tanner: Berthold’s pre
Page 88 and 89: never so much as raised their voice
Page 90 and 91: A Pooka’s Tale His pumpkinish hea
Page 92 and 93: Reference Bibliographies Andersen,
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