Never Play Board Games with the Fae

By Sara Jamieson

This common sense guide to fantasy creatures will help you understand the basics for dealing with a variety of species from pixies to werewolves and banshees to mermaids.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sara Jamieson
• Release date: Feb 22, 2016
• ISBN: 9781311577368

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Never Play Board Games with the Fae

By Sara Jamieson

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Copyright 2016 Sara Jamieson

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We like to tell stories. We tell them to entertain and to teach. We use them to hide lessons and pass on warnings. We use real people, events, and things. We make them up when we find it necessary. I have noticed, however, that once a particular story has been told and retold and passed down to the point where it is considered worthy of the title of a legend that people start to become a little lax about the details. They start to think that it does not matter if they gloss over this bit here or tweak that little bit there. They even come to the misguided conclusion that it is perfectly acceptable to twist things around to make them match up with something that they want to feature in their particular tale.

They think that it does not make any difference. I think that it makes all the difference in the world. They feel that way because they are often operating under the assumption that whatever creature they have chosen for their story was fictional to begin with and therefore open to interpretation. I feel the way that I do because I have firsthand knowledge that (whatever paths of fiction the storytellers over the years may have wandered down) the creatures themselves are real. The average human being may go their entire life without encountering any of them, but those that do are often handicapped (or even placed in danger) by