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Syeia-o-Opri and the Race of Stolen Children

Hey. I have a g/t setting I sometimes work on. Here’s the basics of it.

Fairies arrive from the deep reaches of space, putting up a colony upon the face of the Earth. From the infant children of the Earth’s most clever native - borrowers, the fairies created humans, a macro-superweapon to be used in fairy war fields. Billions of borrower infants were stolen in one cycle and corrupted by fairy magic.

The borrowers are horrified at this. Humans are large, and even the weakest human is several times physically stronger than both fairy and borrower alike. The salt within a human’s body is deeply corrosive to fairies, and any spilled blood will desynchronize a fairy’s flow of will, which is a death sentence.

Humanity is only controlled via one thing - their names, which are fairy-given. As long as a fairy knows a human’s name, the human is under the fairy’s control. This creates an almost foolproof weapon for fairies to use against other fairies. Sending in a colossal being woven from Earth flesh, having salt in their bodily liquids, and iron within their blood, a human is perfect for exterminating enemy fairies.

Sadly, the fairies realized a bit too late that the “small bipedal idiot species” (by comparison) of borrowers left behind some “recessive material” within every human. Cooperation, a highly social structure, and love for each other eventually made the humans plot against their fairy lords. One night, two humans - a male and a female - decide to name each other and not tell the fairies about it.

It is the first dawn of the fairy apocalypse. With one human-to-human given name rises another, and spreads across the fairies’ human populations. The fairies do not understand why they no longer have any control over their superweapons, and only realize what has happened when it’s way too late. Any human still under fairy control is quickly overpowered by the out-of-control swarms, who have quickly figured out how to wield rudimentary weaponry.

Early humanity drove most of fairykind off the planet. In current times, humanity rules the Earth, fairies being powerless to regain their grip on their planet and borrowerkind carefully living beneath humanity’s shadow.

Contact with humanity has been attempted by fairies, but they learned that ANY smidge of aggression will cause the human being communicated with to revert to their original weapon state, killing whichever fairy had made the aggressive display. Contact remains ill advised.

Despite this, humanity is naturally neutral with borrowerkind. The borrowers stay away for their own safety.

Until one day, one member of the two races collide.