Glamorgans

**The Glamorgan** are a race of fairy. They are described as appearing on warm summer nights, where young maidens might catch glimpses of handsome fairy lords dancing in moonlit glades, luring them closer with songs sweeter than any mortal man. But these were tricks of glamour - touch one, and your hand would pass right through as the glamour shattered, revealing naught but shadows and smoke. Many a lovestruck girl was lost to the woods in body and soul, never to return to their lives again.

## Description

The Glamorgan be a mysterious sort of fairy, known to haunt the woods of summer with their tricks and glamour. They appear as comely men with skin fair as moonlight, dancing amongst the trees to unearthly songs. But draw near and your hand would pass through their seeming forms, for in truth they are but shadows and smoke.

Many a maiden has spied them from afar and been drawn in by their beauty, forgetting all caution. Once in the circle of their dance, the poor girl's senses would overcome and she forgets all but the fairy's charms. Thus bewitched, she follows them deeper into the black forest, lost to her family and village forever. Some say the Glamorgan steal away such maidens as wives to their hidden kingdoms underground. Of these unfortunate souls, none have ever been seen again by mortal eyes. Let all young women beware the fair folk's fair forms, for looks can deceives and their music seduces to doom.

### Origin

It is said the Glamorgan were once ordinary forest folk, living simple lives deep in the woods. But one bitter winter, a terrible plague swept through their villages. Most of the folk perished from the sickness, their camps left deserted.

However, a small group survived - though the plague had cursed their bodies in strange ways. They found their skin took on mottled, bark-like hues and their limbs grew gangly and twisted. Most bizarre of all, their fair faces morphed into gnarled visages with mismatched, bulbous eyes.

Horrified by their grim transformations, the survivors fled deeper into the enchanted forest. There, over time, they developed magical skills of illusion to hide their misshapen forms from any curious mortal eyes. They learnt to weave illusions of beauty, luring young maidens to dance within their magical circles beneath the moonlight.

Thus through plague and magic was the race of the Glamorgan born. Doomed to an existence between reality and dreams, they continue harvesting young lives for their hidden kingdom, lest they fade from this realm altogether. The glint of iron alone can pierce their fragile glamour, revealing the warped creatures that lurk beneath.

The Glamorgan lure young maidens for two key reasons:

Sustenance: With their warped forms, the Glamorgan can no longer survive in the mortal world and live off the land as they once did. They have become creatures of magic and illusion. By seducing maidens with their fairy glamour and dances, they are able to feed off the life force of these girls, absorbing their youth and vitality to endure.

Companionship: Cursed to live apart from mortal kind, hidden deep in the forest, the Glamorgan suffer a lonely existence. By trapping young women within their magical realms, they gain company for their hidden villages. While the maidens may lose themselves to madness over time in that strange fairy world, for the Glamorgan it offers fleeting connections to fill the void of their mournful immortal lives.