Ahh, that clarifies things. And the trick with the Fae is that they are actually a wildly variable lot, the created servants of an ancient group that liked to experiment with their creations. Some of them actually correspond to actual myths, others share a few traits with them, and others still are just weird but in ways that could be mythical if seen at the right time and place, but there just isn't that kind of mythical 'press' around their particular gig.
It's not (necessarily) literally a matter of physical iron, it's more on the order of 'what's the opposite of iron? magnets!', sort of like the opposite of earth is air or fire and ice. I do not know how the science of iron poisoning would work, only that it's a chunk of mythology that I feel works and would like to keep in this instance. In context of myth symbolism, iron seems to me to be more about humanity's rise to prominence by finding and adapting resources that allowed them to overwhelm what was there before and cover the earth- but in context of the actual story, it's both that, and it's stuff that disrupted the ancients' power and thus that of their creations- which is why today you have human dominance and not ancient magical being dominance.
I have not seen either of those, but will add them to my list! All of these ideas are kind of percolating back-of-the-skull, and I scribble down ideas when I have them.
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Date: 2012-07-22 04:02 pm (UTC)It's not (necessarily) literally a matter of physical iron, it's more on the order of 'what's the opposite of iron? magnets!', sort of like the opposite of earth is air or fire and ice. I do not know how the science of iron poisoning would work, only that it's a chunk of mythology that I feel works and would like to keep in this instance. In context of myth symbolism, iron seems to me to be more about humanity's rise to prominence by finding and adapting resources that allowed them to overwhelm what was there before and cover the earth- but in context of the actual story, it's both that, and it's stuff that disrupted the ancients' power and thus that of their creations- which is why today you have human dominance and not ancient magical being dominance.
I have not seen either of those, but will add them to my list! All of these ideas are kind of percolating back-of-the-skull, and I scribble down ideas when I have them.