And that also can be freeing in a sense, for in encountering a certain end they no longer fear the threat of an unknown death.įor our own part, we Silver Elves have always related the word fey to a type of fae that courts death, rather in the same fearless way the Viking Beserkers did (also see the Merriam-Webster dictionary for this meaning of fae), or in modern times the way in which many individuals involved in Xtreme sports often risk their lives in pursuit of the thrill of adventure.
They often give up all the pretensions and attachments to the illusionary things of the material world and begin to find some connection and association with the world beyond. One where both science and magic are valued instead of being scorned.Īt the same time, there is often a release that occurs for those who know they are fated to die soon. Which doesn’t make a lot of sense until you realize what a crazy world this is that we currently share with Mankind and so fated to die makes it so many fae could escape this world for another, kinder and certainly more reasonable world. Our doom is the fact that we are doomed to live forever. Now the Scottish have a definition of fey which indicates someone who is fated to die or coming close to the point of death, which is interesting because there is the idea in some literature concerning the Doom of the Elves, which is sometimes associated not with death directly but rather the opposite. In that definition, fey would then include not only the fae but those who are touched by the fae, those who are connected to our world and able to see us when others cannot do so or at least choose to ignore the obvious reality of our existence and pretend otherwise. The word fey has also been used to indicate a person who has supernatural or psychic powers of clairvoyance or sight or is a faerie seer, perhaps. Although, it might be pointed out that while people often sense our otherworldly natures, they are not always sure what it is that they are sensing, merely that we are strange and different and sometimes make them feel vaguely uneasy. Although, there is generally nothing vague about the otherworldliness of the Fae accept our answers to intrusive questions from outsiders.
In that sense Fae and Fey would be quite the same really. But then everything otherworldly is mysterious by definition. Is there a difference in those terms? Traditionally, fey is a word that has been used to indicate giving an impression of otherworldliness, sometimes in a vague or mysterious fashion. In a recent Netflix series entitled Cursed, they used the term Fey for the Elfae folk, instead of Fae.
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