Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Satyrs don't have all the laughs

There is another crowd in the market, though they are off to one side, sitting on a gentle rise with drinks in their hands and a selection of small delicacies on tray. See, they are laughing as much as the crowd with the reinvented magics, but they laugh at different things. Come, let me show you something more of the Fae Court.
Here, there is no real democracy, but the denizens are not bothered by this. Not everyone in equal among the Fae and they would consider it ludicrous to have any but the strongest rule. The Court is ruled by the Queen, and at all times there is a Former Queen, a Present Queen, and a Future Queen. So it is for the Summer and Winter Courts, and so it is here. Fae are best suited to such a style, and it is the Queen’s Champion who aids in the administration of the Court, and does whatever the Queen wills best for the Court. But she has advisors, and it is the position as advisor that some covet as much as mortals covert the position of leader, in business or government, in the world outside this Court. See the man there, his dark hair tied back, the silver ball in his hand, standing in the centre of the other with his drink tilting at a precarious angle? He does not look like that all the time. In fact, that silver ball is allowing him to appear so. What he is doing, with some help, is making a satire of one of the more prominent men in the Court. The silver ball in his hand gives him the ability to look similar to the man he in question, and to use sections of words spoken to alter their meaning. This is a simple thing for the fae, they use what someone has said and done and use it to make something new, and mostly mocking. If I remember, this is not something you are unfamiliar with.
While these are not for positions of true leadership, they are reminiscent of the way mortals take and shape recorded moments of leaders’, or those who wish to lead, lives and make a point with them. They show that one man said the same thing so many ways it turned around and became its opposite, they replay the moment another said that he exaggerates and unless it’s in writing he should not be trusted. And they laugh at the attempts other prominient figures have made to use the same silver ball to reach those who would support them, because the attempts have been clumsy and stilted. Advisors and leaders are not aware of the subtle nuances of this crowd, and they make mistakes, and those mistakes are shown again and again and again, in ways that they never would have thought of. It is this group who show you the underlying differences between those who seek power, and those who would be subject to it. The former take themselves far too seriously.

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