Unseelie
In
all too many books, the Unseelie are the lower orders of Faerie... vicious,
spiteful and ever at war with the Seelie for dominance of a region and
a chance to bring dark dreams into people's minds and hearts. Tolkien
wrote that the orcs and goblins and such had been created from elves that
had been tortured and mutilated until there was nothing left but hate,
malice and spite.
However, while there is some truth to those tales, here we speak of the
Unseelie as those who have crossed over into Elfin yet are ever in danger
of falling back into the world because of uncontrolled passions, jealousies,
manipulativeness, argumentativeness, possessiveness and weakness for believing
that the dark magics of aggression and dominance will make them powerful
fae. They are ever angered at the world of men and continually playing
"one-up-manship games" with each other. The dark spells have
convinced them that they must fight fire with fire and they do not understand
that fire is better quenched with water and controlled by denying it oxygen
and fuel.
These struggling kindred of ours are not wholely lost however. There is
always a chance that they will give up their dark ways and be thus welcomed
deeper into Elfin. But they are as yet "unsealed" that is they
have not thoroughly renounced in word and action the ways of the wicked
magics.
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