ones that no longer make sense even to faeries. According to the Green and Black Compendia, it was an age of strange wonders, haunting beauty and terror, and the oldest of all the stories. The trolls remember the Fomorian Dream, but they do not speak of it. In 20th Edition, the Thallain are their children, and their return in great numbers in the wake of the September 11th attacks is a herald of their awakening.īefore Arcadia, before the sidhe rose out of the Hearthlands and took their place as rulers of the Dream, the fomorians ruled. In the present day, some still influence the Shadow Court. Traditional enemies of the Tuatha de Danann and the Sidhe, they were banished into the depths of the Dreaming after they lost the War of Trees against their foes, and their followers were cast behind the Silver Path. Woe to their subjects that cross their path - the nobility are tyrants who used to rule many of the Adhene. Deformed beyond description, they were said to be inhumanly beautiful or inhumanly hideous. In ancient times the Fomorians were the most potent champions of horrific dreams, perhaps even evil gods of a sort.

As creatures of winter and destruction, they can be seen as the progenitors of the Unseelie.

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