The Korrigan

The Korrigan are a coalition of fey folk who gather in clan villages within Brittany and its Mists, as well as in the Faerie metaplane on the other side of the mists.  About half of the Korrigan are Picti, a variant of elf (or a spirit resembling an elf) with luminous skin who were cast out of the Faerie courts for misbehavior.  While the Picti make up a narrow majority of all korrigan, the term korrigan itself initially referred to a coalition of fey, all smaller than humans, most with the capacity to vanish - Pixies, Knockers, Leprechauns, Clurichauns, Domovoi, Brownies, Lutins, and Morgens.  This coalition makes up about forty percent of the Korrigan.  Of these groups, the pixies are most numerous - Pixies alone make up about twenty percent of the Korrigan.  To this alliance, Polvaks, Groach, Leshy, Selkie, and Pucca have since been added from the Faerie metaplanes, and Firbolg and Fomori, as well as various Elves, Tuatha Elves, and Night One elves from across Europe.  These make up the remaining ten percent.

Korrigan clans are regional, not based on kinship.  Faeries of the same approximate size can intermarry and have children, who will always share metatype or abilities with their mother.  The exceptions are Domovoi, Leprechauns, and Clurichaun, who do not reproduce - a small number of adolescent fey of any type transform into them, in a process similar to Goblinization.  Most villages have around four hundred individuals, and the ‘small folk’ and the ‘big folk’ divide leadership of their respective peoples, each appointing a king and a queen.  Very few of these villages have modern conveniences and technology, but there is nothing actively preventing them from doing so except unfamiliarity and being off the main power grid.

The druidic religion is followed almost universally by the Korrigan, but most Korrigan, especially ‘small folk,’ do not consider themselves to be members of the Druidic Revival whose High Council rules Brittany.  Instead, they consider themselves to be the sponsors and patrons of this Council.  It is not clear that the Council or Revival recognize or have been informed of this distinction.  The Druidic mages’ ability to influence the mists is taught by the Korrigan.  Before the Mists emerged in the Sixth World, the Korrigan lived in them for generations after being cast out of the Faerie metaplane.

Broceliande refers specifically to the region in Brittany surrounding Paimpont - while the Korrigan of Borceliande are a dominant force in the region, and the metahumans of Broceliande and Brittany co-exist as neighbors, Brittany contains many majority-human technologically modern settlements.  There are immigrant enclaves of Bretons in Broceliande, and immigrant enclaves of Korrigan in Brittany, and anyone travelling through Brittany is likely to pass through Broceliande, or near enough for the mists to become an issue - but the two regions, while overlapping, are not synonymous.  Brittany is ruled by the House of Rohan and answers to the French government.  Broceliande is self-governing under the High Council of Druids, who consider themselves a central authority over the clan village kings and queens.  The clan village kings and queens consider themselves sovereign, with the Druid High Council as their mediators, ambassadors, and faction-neutral defense and utility force.

Druidic politics along the Korrigan, while complex, usually involve clashes between the traditionalist Oak Society, which favors isolation; and the interventionist Sun Society, which favors modernization.