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Fairy Tales About Fairies.
Need
insperation to write your fantasy stories, or your role playing game
quests and world?
These are the first fantasy stories.
Fairy tales are intamently connected with
modern literature and fantasy
role playing games, all of our ideas about magical creatures and
magical worlds come from fairy tales. And so it is that we are puting
together fairy tales that deal directly with fairies. We will also
provide ways in which you can use these fairy tales in your playing rpg
games, and creating fantasy role playing games.
The Welsh Fairy Stories
One of the last Celtic lands in the world the Welsh
have a rich history of fairy stories, and inspiring fantasy, for it was
their legends of King Author that helped to inspire many of the modern
fantasy writers and fantasy role playing games.
THE
GOLDEN HARP
The story of terrable singer named Taffy Morgan won't stop singing or
playing, however he is a kind man who does a service for three fairies
and so is given a magical harp.
THE
TOUCH OF CLAY
A Nymph and a farmer fall in love and get married, however the farmer
accidently breaks the one taboo in their marrage and so the fairy girl
is forced to return to fairy land.
THE
TOUCH OF IRON
This fairy story offers both an explination of one of the reasons
fairies don't like iron, and tells the story of a man who kidnaps a
fairy using iron to trap her. For fantasy stories and role playing
games this story is good inseration for those who use the fairies
weakness against them.
THE
TREASURE STONE OF THE FAIRIES
A story of a boy who plays with fairies against his mothers will, and
every time he does so days rather then a few hours pass buy. In the end
it is the boys friendship with these fairies which saves the family
from poverty.
In any role playing game the discription of the boys friendship with
the fairies could be used as a means by which the characters might be
friends with fairies.
A
BOY THAT VISITED FAIRYLAND
Another story of a boy who becomes friends with a fairy child, however in the end this human betrays the trust of the fairies.
THE
WELSH FAIRIES HOLD A MEETING
More folklore about the fairies then a story about them there are a lot
of good descriptions of fairies for fantasy stories and fantasy role
playing games.
THE
LADY OF THE LAKE
The story of a man woes a fairy girl with bread and so they have three
children together, children who grow to become some of the most
important people in Wales.
POWELL,
PRINCE OF DYFED
A fairy tale about the friendship of a human prince and a fairy king.
This story shows how mortals could help fairies within the world of
fairy, perfect as insperation for a different sort of fantasy story or
rpg game.
POWELL
AND HIS BRIDE
After spending a year with the fairies the world of mortals seems dull, so Powell sets out to find a bride.
WHY
THE BACK DOOR WAS FRONT
The story of a farmer who discovers that he has
fairies living right outside his door, where he has been dumping
garbage. For fantasy stories and role playing games this story helps
show how close the fairy world often times is to the mortal one.
THE
RED BANDITS OF MONTGOMERY
The story of a women who is robbed and left with nothing, however if she can guess a fairies name she will gain great riches.
THE
FAIRY CONGRESS
Another discription of fairies perfect for gaining ideas and characters for fantasy role playing games and fantasy stories.
Grimms Fairy Tales, Fairy Stories.
Remmember when reading the stories of the brothers Grimm that the
Germans had their own words for fairy type creatures, and that those
translating these stories to English often left out some stories.
Also Remmember that these stories have been greatly altered, for they where not written down in books exactly as told.
The Gnomes and the Princess
Some princesses disapear, and a reward is offered for their return.
Later a gnome is rude to a huntsmen causing the huntsmen to beat him,
the gnome convinces the huntsmen to stop by telling him the location of
the princesses.
The King of the Golden Mountain
The story of a boy who is promised to a dwarf like creature and escapes
this fate and into a fairy type land, where he has a number of
adventures gets married and looses his wife. One of the best stories
for inspiring fantasy role playing games.
The Raven
A story with less adventure then The King of the Golden Mountain but a similar plot and a happy ending.
The Three Little Men in the Wood
A story of three little men in the woods who grant magical gifts to a poor girl.
Mother Holle
The story of a girl who is lives and works for Mother Holle
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