They said fairy godmothers would grant all our wishes. They said Tinkerbell would die if we didn't believe. They said magic was just pretend. They lied. Once upon a time (in the original, more ominous inflection of the phrase) eldritch creatures stalked the world. They ranged across mountains and deserts and waterways – even the heavens – in a glory of guises. Some of the phaedrealii court were beautiful; some horrific. Some lived in harmony with humans; some...did not. Eventually, the chaos human passions – fear and hatred, joy and desire – drove too many phae to acts of madness. With deadly iron, humans forced the phae to retreat to hollow hills and storybooks.Then the humans forgot.