Tom
Istar
I just wanted to run some new ideas past you lovely folks, to see if you had some feedback that could fuel my imagination.
So I thought up a possible origin for the Fey in my story--they were originally human. I think I mentioned here how some people in my story-world are born with more magic than others. So maybe, long ago, some children were born with magic so powerful that it made them “mutants”. These mutants would be shunned and cast out, so they would only have children with other mutants. Eventually, they would become a separate race/species, with magic to aid the process of natural selection.
I was also thinking–maybe people who work magic for a while start to grow horns (my Fey have horns). Perhaps the longer/more numerous the horns, the more powerful or experienced the magic-user? They’d also start to acquire more physical Fey traits, such as ashen skin and long, claw-like hands, and probably mental traits as well, becoming more emotionally unstable and capricious. So not only would that make powerful magic-users visibly different from normal people, it would cause others to possibly shun or fear them, as they would the Fey. That's kind of the angle I'm going for.
What do you guys think? Any ideas or suggestions?
So I thought up a possible origin for the Fey in my story--they were originally human. I think I mentioned here how some people in my story-world are born with more magic than others. So maybe, long ago, some children were born with magic so powerful that it made them “mutants”. These mutants would be shunned and cast out, so they would only have children with other mutants. Eventually, they would become a separate race/species, with magic to aid the process of natural selection.
I was also thinking–maybe people who work magic for a while start to grow horns (my Fey have horns). Perhaps the longer/more numerous the horns, the more powerful or experienced the magic-user? They’d also start to acquire more physical Fey traits, such as ashen skin and long, claw-like hands, and probably mental traits as well, becoming more emotionally unstable and capricious. So not only would that make powerful magic-users visibly different from normal people, it would cause others to possibly shun or fear them, as they would the Fey. That's kind of the angle I'm going for.
What do you guys think? Any ideas or suggestions?