====== Fae Places of Power ====== =====In Between===== [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #9: [[Fire Touched]] * there is magic in places that are between: crossroads, thresholds, bridges34 ===== Power Anchors===== [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #3: [[Iron Kissed]] * the fae didn't value their anchors in this world because their magic works so much better Underhill. They didn't defend their places until it was too late142 * they've made new anchors142 ===== Underhill ===== [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #3: [[Iron Kissed]] * is the fairy realm29 * is fickle and lonely28 * there are [[fae glamour]] that hide the entrances28 * the last gate to Underhill disappeared in the middle of the sixteenth century, cutting them off from a great deal of their power142 * the gates to the Secret Place have been lost to the fae for centuries283 [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #5: [[Silver Borne]] * Underhill was wherever it chose to be283 * the gates to the Secret Place have been lost to the fae for centuries283 ==== Tilly ==== ===== The Elphame ===== [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #5: [[Silver Borne]] * magic made300 * the fairy queen was able to tap into Underhill to create her own land283 * mortals who are taken to the Elphame cannot be killed or permanently harmed -- it's part of the magic of building a place apart284 * fairy prisoners can be rescued by stealth, by battle, or by bargaining284 * the only way to get into Elphame is by following the queen in284 * the only glamour that works in an Elphame is the queen; if you wait until the Elphame rips it from you, it will alert those inside that they have an intruder ===== Reservations ===== [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]] * wave of violence prompted the creation of four large reservations for fae * there were fae in the government who saw the reservations as damage control and used fair means or foul to convince the rest of Congress * if a fae agreed to live on a reservation, he was given a small house and a monthly stipend; their children were given scholarships to good universities17 * reservations only a first step in the Gray Lord's plans * whatever ills it created, the reservation system had lessened the growing problems between the human and fae, at least in the US * [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #3: [[Iron Kissed]] * within the reservation the fae do their own law enforcement09 * guesting laws11 * the treaties that set up the reservation system didn't allow any questions asked about the way the registration forms were filled out * the KKK burning a house with its fae occupants still in it and the riots in the streets of Houston and Baltimore that provided the impetus to confine the fae on reservations [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #5: [[Silver Borne]] most of the fae who live there aren't the powerful among the fae -- but there are a lot of them, more than appear on the government's rolls; there is power in that kind of concentrationSB- ==== Ronald Wilson Regan ==== AKA: Fairyland Location: near Walla Walla [[Chat Archives]] * the RWRFR was put were is was by chance-the same way the other reservations happened-no one wanted the land it was on Chat 2008-02-09 [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]] * closer to the reservation; having so many lesser fae around has attracted more of the greater fae * the Fairy Mound in Walla Walla is the bar where tourists go to see the fae * [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #3: [[Iron Kissed]] * through a patch of thick growing poplar, two walls of cinnamon-colored concrete block rising on either side sixteen feet tall with concertina wire along the top11 * been there since the eighties15 Glamour | a particularily unimaginative suburbiaIK-21; row after row of neat, well-kept ranch houses with attached one-car garages laid out in identical-sized yards with identical fences, chain link around the front yard, six-foot cedar around the backyard; only difference from one house to the next was in color of pain and foliage in the yardsIK-15 ==== James Earl Carter Jr. ==== Location: Nevada 2. James Earl Carter Jr. Fae Reservation [Nevada] has a casino and a small theme park to attract touristsIK-07 been turned into another Las VegasIK-121 ==== TBD ==== Name and Location not known ==== TBD ==== Name and location not known