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[arethinn]

Some elven/faery comics I have been reading lately:

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Halflight
Nahalenya, or Lenya to her friends, was sent forth from her home years ago to study magic at the University. Finding it too difficult to stand out as much as she did, she found a way to lead a double life. While her time has been rich with learning, she must soon graduate and begin her journey home – something that will take a lot longer than she could ever suspect.

This is only the first story of Halflight, a place where tales like this can be told, long and short, happy and sad, as if around a campfire past the end of the world and outside of time.

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Estranged
Edmund Carter is not what he seems. He’s a changeling, a fay child swapped for a human child in infancy. Raised by an unwitting human family, Edmund has guarded the secret of what he is all his life.

The World Below is all the nameless human Childe has ever known. Raised by fay royalty, who dote on him as an exotic pet, the Childe dreams of the human world. When a neighboring kingdom invades his home, the Childe flees with Whick, a golem made of wax and his only companion. Having nowhere else to go, the Childe seeks out the fay who replaced him at birth in the World Above.

Now Edmund and the Childe, along with Whick and their human sister Alexis, must evade the assassins of the usurping Queen, protect their human family, and choose the life they want to lead.

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Feral Gentry
Feral Gentry is an occasionally animated new weird comic about modern fairies. The main character Tuomi finds his safe but solitary life suddenly shaken when he meets another of his kind for the first time in years.

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Chrysalis - based on Changeling: the Dreaming
It's the year 1969. When the first Man steps on the Moon, Mankind believes again and Arcadia's doors burst open. The sidhe come back to their old lands believing Spring has come back so they can retake their kingdoms, but the commoners think otherwise...

(Unfortunately, per their news post, this comic has ceased in the middle of a story as of last September, or at least is on indefinite hiatus.)

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(DW autocompleted my attempt to type the tag "elves" on this post with "eldritch terrors". Whether there is any truth to this is left as an exercise for the reader.)

Comments

[violettawilde]

Glancing through the Chrysalis one now, and had been looking through Halflight the other day. Some awesome stuff. (Incidentally, I do keep hearing about Changeling: The Dreaming, and think I should definitely look it up. I've never done tabletop roleplaying before, but maybe it could be adjusted to pen-and-paper/prose roleplay? Not sure. Either way, sounds very intriguing.)

Also, laughing at the autocorrect.

[arethinn]

I think you certainly could play a Changeling character in freeform prose roleplay, although you'd have to be interacting with someone familiar with the system of powers (or at least someone willing to take your word for it), and I suppose you'd have to come up with some way to adjudicate whether any attempt to use them actually worked; although ideally maybe if you were playing with someone who was willing to go along with "whatever is most fun is what happens" - they work most of the time, don't if that would be more dramatic, etc. (It's how the LARPs I used to be in usually wound up. Unless we were in direct contested combat, we mostly ruled that our powers and other ability checks simply succeeded, because it was more fun that way.)

That said, Changeling is just interesting to read as an artifact and to glean some ideas that can be applied to real mythic life, not even with consideration of doing anything about playing it.

[violettawilde]

Sounds do-able. Most of the prose roleplays I've done are probably closer to collaborative fiction than what might constitute actual gameplay, often with the respective writers discussing plot points, etc. before proceeding with certain threads or storylines.

I often have a tendency to explore and express the more mythic themes and elements in my life within writing and storytelling, so I suspect this bit of worldbuilding could be interesting. I'll definitely look into getting my hands on it when I'm able to do so.

[rialian]

====I am certain that my very existence did not affect or effect the DreamWidth Autoccorrect...really I am. (smirks)

[arethinn]

It may be of some amusement value that the only post in this journal actually tagged with that is about regular expressions.

[rialian]

===That is indeed rather amusing....

[arethinn]

Your icon reminds me: http://rootandrock.tumblr.com/post/136569896340/notpulpcovers-king-in-yellow

[rialian]

===Oh, wow...that is rather perfect.

[kllara]

Ooh, comics. Thanks for these links!