Human Realm

The **human realm** is much like non-fictional Earth, and is an alternate plane from the fae realm. Most humans reside here.

## Appears in

Major canon:

*Game Theory*

*The Court of Five Thrones*

Canon extra:

*Tumblr Prompts - Fae Tales*

## Description

There are fae who reside there permanently and/or maintain businesses there:

* Gulvi Dubna Vajat once worked as a bodyguard for a fae family overseeing Unseelie matters in France.
* The Nain Rouge resides in a dilapidated, underground concrete carpark' in Detroit, Michigan.
* Zrimat lives almost entirely in the human realm, possibly in Kerala.

Other fae simply visit, particularly when they need to feed on humans or human acts:

* Ash Glashtyn has spent much of his life there, either studying, traveling, in bars, hooking up, or seeing his human therapist, but lately he's started staying in the fae realm more.
* Gwyn ap Nudd sought out Ash's aid to help free Augus Each Uisge from the Seelie Court while Ash was at a human world bar.
* Both Ash and Augus have to travel to the human realm to find prey for their true appetites.
* Ash and Gulvi met at a human realm concert.
* Unseelie trows travel to the human realm to feed on human theft.
* The Ratcatcher of Hameln famously kidnapped over 100 human children from the town of Hameln and took them with him back to his estate in Mauerland.
* Gwyn visited while fleeing the Seelie Court, and took some food from a human dwelling; he later returned with Ondine to repay the debt.
* Ash, Augus, Gulvi, and Gwyn once went to the human realm for a shopping trip.

The human realm can also be dangerous for fae: once captured by humans, afrit must grant three wishes, so they have a fear of and largely avoid the human realm.

Fae also sometimes, steal, borrow, or copy human realm technology, though many fae have a disdain for it, as the fae world likes to remain at a sort of Victorian age technology idyll.

* Augus paid a fae for a stolen refrigerator from the human realm or took it himself, and bought other equipment from fae who stole from the human realm, which Augus kept in his first lake.
* Pazhna, the former Seelie Court healer, also incorporated human tech into her healing work in the fae realm.
* The Nain Rouge and Mikkel wield human guns in combat.
* Although Aleutia the Rat-Maiden disdains the use of intravenous therapy, and notes that fae bodies function differently than human ones, so they don't need it anyway, she is aware of their purpose and relation to the human realm, which implies she's studied human medical technology to some extent.

Augus' Blight affected the human world, but it's unclear what happened after Augus was defeated, though the world has recovered at least a little. Since Olphix cut off access to the human realm, no one but Olphix can travel between the fae and human realm.

The encroachment of human habitation on fae territory has led to conflict amongst the fae as they fight amongst themselves instead of turning on the humans.

## Residents

* Matthias (former)
* The Nain Rouge
* Zrimat

## References

1. ↑ not\_poignant. “Game Theory.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 31 January 2014. https://archiveofourown.org/works/915296/chapters/2363349. Chapter 39: Alone.
2. ↑ 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.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 not\_poignant. “The Court of Five Thrones.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 18 June 2014. https://archiveofourown.org/works/1749290/chapters/4283271. Chapter 4: Suspicions.
4. ↑ not\_poignant. “The Court of Five Thrones.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 14 May 2015. https://archiveofourown.org/works/1749290/chapters/8820031. Chapter 43: Wildness.
5. ↑ not\_poignant. “Game Theory.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 23 November 2013. https://archiveofourown.org/works/915296/chapters/2115127. Chapter 28: Light.
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8. ↑ not\_poignant. “The Ice Plague: Book 3 - The Ice Plague.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 19 November 2020. https://archiveofourown.org/works/26266345/chapters/67599242. Chapter 7: Bad Habits.
9. ↑ not\_poignant. “The Court of Five Thrones.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 17 October 2014. https://archiveofourown.org/works/1749290/chapters/5474447. Chapter 14: Pearl.
10. ↑ not\_poignant. "Tumblr Prompts - Fae Tales." *The Fae Tales Verse - canon extras. Archive of Our Own,* 29 November 2015. https://archiveofourown.org/works/5309705/chapters/12258668. Chapter 1: Augus is Not Amused.
11. ↑ not\_poignant. “The Ice Plague: Book 1 - The Forest of Fire.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 26 July 2018. https://archiveofourown.org/works/12036105/chapters/35842707. Chapter 25: Circling Back Around.
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 not\_poignant. "Deeper into the Woods." *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 31 March 2015. https://archiveofourown.org/works/3652500/chapters/8069799. Chapter 1: I - The Waterhorse.
13. ↑ not\_poignant. “Game Theory.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 22 December 2013. https://archiveofourown.org/works/915296/chapters/2204791. Chapter 33: Invisible.
14. ↑ not\_poignant. “The Ice Plague: Book 1 - The Forest of Fire.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 21 September 2018. https://archiveofourown.org/works/12036105/chapters/37471571. Chapter 29: Don't Look.
15. ↑ not\_poignant. “The Court of Five Thrones.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 11 November 2014. https://archiveofourown.org/works/1749290/chapters/5741654. Chapter 17: Life.
16. ↑ not\_poignant. “The Ice Plague: Book 1 - The Forest of Fire.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 7 January 2018. https://archiveofourown.org/works/12036105/chapters/30419052. Chapter 12: Empty Whispers.
17. ↑ not\_poignant. “The Ice Plague: Book 3 - The Ice Plague.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 16 September 2021. https://archiveofourown.org/chapters/84324043. Chapter 15: The Enemy of My Enemy.
18. ↑ not\_poignant. “Game Theory.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 24 September 2013. https://archiveofourown.org/works/915296/chapters/1928111. Chapter 14: Aftercare.