Okay, I've just had an idea. Shoot me down if it's naff. But how about playing out a game set during or in the aftermath of the Accordance War, as detailed in the fan-made story, Accordance: A Social History. That gives us a setting, NPCs, a time period, and some flavour. The nobles can be rebuilding or else struggling to maintain order, but either way, it gives us a blank canvas for fae politics.
It's here, and unfinished, giving us scope to take it in whichever direction works for us:
http://forum.theonyxpath.com/f...nce-a-social-history
Another idea is to set it some time after the events detailed above, but using the same setting and a few grumps loaned from the fiction. When the Second Coming brings new nobles to town (or is it the Thallain?), old tensions look like they might resurface, and the youngsters are left to deal with things.
I think there's something interesting in fae society, because there are very few elders. They either succumb to Banality or Bedlam, which means the lessons of the Accordance War might never really filter down to newly awakened nobles, whose only fae memories are of distant Arcadia rather than the Autumn World.
For instance, there were race riots here in the UK in the 70s, 80s and the 90s. Things kicked off again in the 2010s, but my home community of Chapeltown in Leeds, which has a massive Afro-Caribbean population, was one of very few areas where the rioting was pretty much nonexistent. I think maybe one car was stolen by one person. The reason? Well, elders in the community had learned, and instilled pride in their community in the younger generations. They'd made sure there were community groups and youth groups. And don't get me wrong, Chapeltown has a high crime rate, but there wasn't any rioting.
Changelings don't necessarily get that. You have kids and adolescents suddenly awakening to the hubris of their lineage and a few fuzzy memories of past lives. There's no one to say, 'We don't do this, because it ended badly last time.' And the sidhe are basically waking to a new culture where they have very few ties. I'm actually surprised more fae don't find themselves repeating these mistakes over and over again. Especially the sidhe, who've mostly got a very short collective memory of life in the Autumn World. Excepting Autumn sidhe, they've been here since 1969, tops, and might not ever reincarnate because of the way they claim mortal bodies.
Anyway,that kinda went off on a tangent.
This message was last edited by the player at 00:00, Tue 16 Aug 2016.
