Not all that glitters is new

The Fae Court is like any other, they have their darkness, and their light, and as with all creatures able to communicate and possessing a wish for shiny things, they have a marketplace. It is off to one side of the main buildings, half under the protective arches woven by the fae with a skill for construction, half beneath the open sky and subject to most of its whims. There are enough protection spells that neither the goods nor the sellers are truly effected by rain or anything stronger or colder. Be careful not to touch anything as we walk the rows, wanderer, these things are as deadly as they are beautiful and in some cases the most innocious are the ones most likely to cause you harm. But that is not what I have brought you here to see.
In the clearing, do you see the crowd, laughing and clapping and chatting quietly in moments of applause? Yes, the one with the small silver balls at their belts. Walk quietly with me and I shall tell you a secret, that is no secret to the fae but that mortals seldom hear. Each act of magic, of creation of nothing out of something, is more than difficult, and it is not with ease that such things are made. The original spell, the new way to make flames turn and curve to ones will, anything that has not been before, is a labour of love and talent, which most fae do not possess and in most cases the dedication to the creation of the new is not something that interests them. However, what the fae would never tell a mortal, they do not need to create something new, they can take elements of what has been and mix them in such a way that the outcome appears new and original and unique. Without the knowledge that these magics have come originally from someone else, who is to question the creations these fae show? And since there is a certain amount of art in the combining of magics, who is to truly be offended by this form of flattery? Not that there aren’t some who are, but these are the few, and not the many, and the voices that are powerful in the creation of new magic are not so clearly heard when things are being shifted to form new or different things.
You look a little, disconcerted, is that the word I want? It is no different to using someone else’s artistic creations to make new ones, the profit, if any, is still sent to the original artist, and often there is no profit at all. It is not the way of entertainment to demand new things and reject the familiar. In some cases, it is the combination of the familiar with the unusual that makes them valuable. Sometimes entire premises about the construction of a world are rewritten for the amusement of the viewer. Watch here, see what I mean.