Robin Goodfellow

**Robin Goodfellow** or **Puck** is a classless Seelie fae, and a member of the Coalition of the Classless.

## Appearance

At the Coalition of the Classless, he leans back in his chair with a mischievous grin on his face.

## Life

It's unknown if Puck was alive before Olphix and Davix created the classless as batteries, in order to gather power over time that the Mages would later take for themselves at their leisure.

Since Gwyn ap Nudd requests Marika's help to ask for representatives from the Seelie classless fae as part of the Coalition of the Classless, it's likely Marika reaches out to Puck as an attendee. He later appears at the Coalition as one of the Seelie representatives. The Coalition decides on and imposes sanctions on both Courts to end Albion's war with the Unseelie Court, stopping them from sending their militaries against each other, outside of territorial disputes, for a decade. Albion is to stop bothering inter-alignment communities, and Gwyn is to stop assassinating Seelie Courtiers and calling in his life debts to disrupt Seelie politics. The Coalition also assigns two members of the Coalition to serve as observers at the opposing alignment's Court, to make sure they are following through with the sanctions, though Old Pete serves as the Seelie representative to the Unseelie Court.

When Olphix steals the powers of the Classless during the ice plague, it's implied that Olphix takes some or all of Puck's powers, though Puck's fate is unknown.

## Folklore/Mythology

'In English folklore, Puck . . . sometimes known as Robin Goodfellow, is a domestic and nature sprite, demon, or fairy. . . . The earliest reference to "Robin Goodfellow" [is] cited by the *Oxford English Dictionary* is from 1531. Anthony Munday mentions Robin Goodfellow in his play *The Two Italian Gentlemen*, 1584' and he appears 'in William Shakespeare's 1595/96 play *A Midsummer Night's Dream*, and is responsible for the mischief that occurs.'

In *A Midsummer Night's Dream*, Puck 'is a mischievous fairy, sprite, or jester. He is the first of the main fairy characters to appear . . . He delights in pranks such as replacing Bottom's head with that of an ass. . . . Puck serves the fairy king Oberon. Oberon is angry with Titania, the fairy queen, because she will not let him have a particular "little changeling boy" (2.1.120). Oberon sends Puck to fetch a particular flower, whereof the juice "on sleeping eyelids laid / Will make or man or woman madly dote / Upon the next live creature that it sees" (2.1.170-72). Puck is told to apply some of it to the "disdainful youth" (2.1.261) in "Athenian garments" (2.1.264), but Puck mistakes Lysander for Demetrius and applies it to Lysander. Oberon applies some of the juice to Titania, and Titania is waked by a singing Nick Bottom, whose head Puck has changed to that of an ass. Later, Puck is ordered to rectify his mistake with Lysander and Demetrius, and he creates a black fog through which he separates the "testy rivals" (3.2.358), imitating their voices until they are asleep. Puck has the final lines of the play.'

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 not\_poignant. “The Court of Five Thrones.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 14 August 2015. https://archiveofourown.org/works/1749290/chapters/10409742. Chapter 56: Islands.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 not\_poignant. “The Ice Plague: Book 1 - The Forest of Fire.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 6 September 2018. https://archiveofourown.org/works/12036105/chapters/37093806. Chapter 28: Like Batteries.
3. ↑ not\_poignant. “The Court of Five Thrones.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 6 February 2015. https://archiveofourown.org/works/1749290/chapters/7205945. Chapter 29: Classless.
4. ↑ "Puck (folklore)." Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puck\_(folklore). Accessed 3 May 2021.
5. ↑ "Puck (A Midsummer Night's Dream)". Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puck\_(A\_Midsummer\_Night%27s\_Dream). Accessed 3 May 2021.