Fae

==The Western Fae==
Not only the kithain but the sundered realm of the Dreaming did not exist in Bandaiyan until the Euro-Invasion. The Alcheringa existed with a kind of sublime power and balance where the separation between Dream and Dreamer was less distinct and there was no need for the Mists. The violence of the War of Tears, and the genocide that accompanied it, however, caused irreprabable harm to the Alcheringa and it withdrew from the colonies, leaving a void that the Dreaming took root in. The sidhe were not present in that era and 1969 did not spawn the same Resurgence, perhaps because of the Alcheringa. All of the freeholds in Bandaiyan took root after 1788, most of them in the gold rush era of the mid 1800s and even more recently in the last 4-5 decades.
The lack of sidhe, the complications of the Alcheringa, the power and influence of the Mer Kingdom (Wunyami) create a different dynamic than in many other lands. The most common type of hold is a Goblin's Market with a brisk mercantile of tiny shops and stalls tucked in dark mysterious alleys. The Seelie and Unseelie Courts are typically hostile if not engaged in outright war. Individual kithain form motleys and oath circles typically based on kith, legacy, or human ethnic ties. The same kinfolk families that produced Trueborn were often kinain as well and the kithain, returning to earth, seemed to favor them as hosts. This created a cycle that by the late 1900s led to several Fianna Tuatha de Fionn families with strong ties to both worlds, especially in Garriwerd.
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