Gentry Investigations

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Abyss of Despair [Weapon]
Ard-Ri
Beathalachd [Weapon]
Black Coach of the wild hunt [Weapon]
Black Madness "Bainidhe Dub" [Weapon]
Branwyn's Tears [Weapon]
brownie
Bureau of Human and Fey Affairs
cauldron/chalice
Cahokia (Faerie Mounds)
corr
Cromm Cruach
demi-fey
Dreaded Death "Uamhas" [Weapon]
Dread of Death "Vamhas" [Weapon]
elf-struck
fade
faeriephiles
Fertility Rite
fey
Film noir
Firbolgs
Geas of celibacy
Geamhradh Po'g (Winter Kiss) [Weapon]
glamour
goblins [Weapon]
goblin war
green man
Grey Detective Agency, The
gwynfor
Hallway of Mortality
Hellhounds [Weapon]
High Court
hoarfrost
Holmby Hills
Jack-in-Irons
Kane and Hart
Kiss of Birds*
Mortal Dread [Weapon]
The Nameless [Weapon]
night hags
nightflyer
Phoukas
Prince of Old Blood
Princess of Blood
Princess of Flesh
Queen of Air and Darkness
Ravens [Weapon]
Red Caps
roane
The Roses [Weapon]
Samhain
Seelie Court
sidhe
slaugh [Weapon]
small flesh
Snick and Snack [Weapon]
Starvin' Ones [Weapon]
Summerland*
Triple Iris
Unseelie Court
Virgin Rights
wards
weak blood
wild magic
will-o'-the-wisps
Yule Ball

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Abyss of Despair [Weapon] - A bottomless pit located with the Sithin. If someone was to be cast into the abyss, they would literally fall forever, never aging, never dying, trapped in free fall for eternity.

Ard-Ri - high king

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Beathalachd [Weapon] - A ring that gives the bearer vitality. It literally steals the very life and skill of your opponent. Sholto wore it while fighting Doyle.

Black Coach of the wild hunt [Weapon] - "The Black Coach is an object that has an energy of its own. It was not created by any fey or ancient god that they knew of. It has simply existed for six thousand years and changes as time goes. Before it took the limousine form of today, it was a black chariot pulled by four black horses. The horses were things of darkness with empty eye sockets that filled with leprous flame." It answers to Andais's voice and now Merry's. The Black Coach had been a death portent, warning of impending doom. "There were beginnning to be tales of a sinister black car sitting across from a person's home with its engine running and green fire dancing along its surface, and then doom would fall on that person."

Black Madness "Bainidhe Dub" [Weapon] - Also called Bainidhe Dub, Doyle's sword. If anyone besides him were to try and wield it they would be struck permanently mad.

Branwyn's Tears (Aveal's Joy), (Fergus's Sweat) [Weapon] - A clear oil that turns a human into a sidhe lover for a night. No glamour can stand against it. If a sidhe were to give it to a mortal to use against other fey, the punishment is eternal torture.

brownie - The worker faeries said to clean your house while you sleep. Merry's grandmother is a brownie who owns a bed and breakfast. One of their powers includes levitating.

Bureau of Human and Fey Affairs - A government organization that controls the use of fey magic and relations. According to the bureau, it's illegal to have sex with humans without protecting their minds.

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cauldron/chalice - "This is the cauldron. The cauldron that can feed thousands, and never go empty. The cauldron from which the dead warriors can rise again, alive the next day, though robbed of their speech. This is a thing of elemental power for our people..." Doyle SbM p94

Cahokia (Faerie Mounds) - Also called the Sithin which is located in Cahokia, Illlinois. Like the Black Coach, it has a life of its own and frequently redecorates at its own will.

corr - nightflyer word for slut

Cromm Cruach - "Hail, Cromm Cruach, who slew Tigernmas, Lord of Death, for his pride and his crimes against people." Doyle about Rhys SbM p67

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demi-fey - Small fey who look somewhat like butterflies or birds and are ruled by Queen Niceven. It is said that where the demi-fey travel, faerie follows. The demi-fey seem to have many secrets, one of which is growing larger to become human-size.

Dreaded Death "Uamhas" [Weapon] - Rhys's sword.

Dread of Death "Vamhas" [Weapon] - Rhy's axe.

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elf-struck - If a sidhe has sex with a human and doesn't try to tone down the magic, they turn a human into an addict. Those that are elf-struck can actually wither and die from want of the touch of sidhe flesh.

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fade - When a sidhe chooses to die, he fades. Once it is started, it can't be stopped. Some of the lesser fey fade in truth with their skin turning translucent.

faeriephiles - Human groupies that follow the sidhe around. This can often turn into a cult.

Fertility Rite - A spell performed to get someone with child (increase fertility).

fey - A person or place possessed of magical properties

Film noir - A film style that was popular during the 1940's. Very stylized, almost stilted acting.

Firbolgs - They were semi-divine inhabitants of the British Isles and Ireland. The firbolgs were defeated in one of the first fey battles over several thousand years ago.

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Geas of celibacy - It was the royal's privilege to sleep with her bodyguards, her Ravens, until one of them made her pregnant; then she wed that one and didn't sleep with the rest. Andais could have freed them to have other lovers, but she chose not to. Unless they slept with her, they slept with no one.

Geamhradh Po'g (Winter Kiss) [Weapon] - Also known as Winter Kiss, Frost's sword. It could steal a fey's passion with one blow. It would leave them cold and barren as a winter snow.

glamour - Magic that can change a fey's appearance for the eyes of humans. Only few sidhe can work glamour on other sidhe. This is considered an insult to do so without permission.

goblins [Weapon] - Goblins are considered the foot soldiers of the Unseelie Court since they do most of the fighting during war. Kurag is the goblin king. They consider anything that comes out of the body more valuable than jewels or weapons. It was also an insult if the men did not leer at your women. It implied that she was ugly and infertile. An alliance can be formed with the goblins if the rights of both blood and flesh are invoked. Sex should always be negotiated before starting when dealing with goblins.

goblin war - A war between the sidhe and goblins over 2 thousand years ago. Kitto was a product of this war.

green man - The green man was a nickname for the Goddess's Consort, sometimes a name for the generic forest god used in fertility rites.

Grey Detective Agency, The - Owned by Jeremy Grey and based in LA. The agency specializes in detective work dealing with supernatural problems, magical solutions.

gwynfor - the white lord (sage refers to Rhys as this)

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Hallway of Mortality - The Sithin's torture chamber.

Hellhounds [Weapon] - Also known as the 'hounds of the great hunt'. They foreshadow death or doom.

High Court - Just like the medieval hierarchy, this is the court of the royals.

hoarfrost - servant of sidhe who became Jack Frost.

Holmby Hills - An area not unlike Beverly Hills. Once the place to live, now it's too expensive for most modern stars to afford.

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Jack-in-Irons - In folklore, it is a Dangerous giant from Yorkshire that can often be found haunting lonely roads. Double tusked is highly prized and a curve on the end is considered a sign of virility. Uther is one of them.

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Kane and Hart - Kane was a psychic and a martial arts expert. The Hart brothers were two of the most powerful human magicians that I'd ever met. The agency did more bodyguard work.

Kiss of Birds - A gift from the deity (male) to heal anyone who you kiss.

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Mortal Dread [Weapon] - The Queens� sword. The hilt had on it a trio of crows, their breasts meeting, wings entwined, and beaks open bearing jewels for the pommel. The sword had mortal blood ties to its forging, which meant that a death wound from it was truly a death wound for any fey.

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The Nameless [Weapon]- It was the last attempt by both courts to keep the courts from dying. Every fey was required to put magic into the nameless and it was held somewhere within faerie to keep the magic from disappearing. It's a evil manifestation of the powers from all the sidhe combined into one form. It could only be physically seen if it had been hurt because it could move through time and space.

night hags - Female nightflyers of the slaugh.

nightflyer - A winged creature under the command of Sholto. Few creatures in Faerie were stronger than Sidhe, nightflyers were one of them. Most of their body parts are able to regenerate and contain a nest if tentacles resting in their abdomen. The royals have spine down the length of their peni which meant they were fertile males.

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Phoukas - A type of fey that can change shape from a horse to a dog to a human or any mix of the above.

Prince of Old Blood - "He could bring every bleeding wound I have had in over a thousand years of battles on me at once." Doyle about Prince Cel

Princess of Blood - "I pointed my left hand toward the creature, palm out, and thought, not the word blood but of blood. I thought about the taste of it, salty, metallic; the feel of it fresh and almost scalding hot in large doses, the way it thickened when it cooled. I thought of the smell of blood-that neck-ruffling scent and the way enough of it freshly spilled always smelled like meat, like raw hamburger." Princess Merry calling blood from the Nameless.

Princess of Flesh - "To be trapped forever as a shapeless ball of flesh, never to die, never to age, merely to continue; oh yes, Princess, I think they will be afraid." Doyle to Meredith about her new hand of power.

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Queen of Air and Darkness - Queen Andais is the Queen of Air and Darkness. She can hear things spoken in the dark of night.

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Ravens [Weapon] - There were three times three times three royal bodyguards. Twenty-seven warriors dedicated to my aunt's every wish.

Red Caps - A type of goblin. "Once all Red Caps had had to dip their hats in blood to get that crimson color. The blood dried up, and you would have to have another battle to dip you hat in the blood of your enemies. The custom had made the Red Caps some of the most feared warriors among us; for sheer bloodthirstiness, it was hard to beat them." SbMp328

roane - Irish seal fairies. The can step in and out of their skin changing from human to seal form.

The Roses [Weapon] - The roses were used for defense. If an enemy penetrated that far within the Sithin, the roses would come to life and kill the intruder either by strangulation or by ripping them apart with its thorns. The roses are a symbol of the sidhe power. It is said that as the roses die, so does the power of the sidhe. Merry made the flowers live again.

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Samhain - Halloween

Seelie Court - Also called "the Bringers of Beauty and Wishes" whose power descends from their King or Queen. The Seelie Court is ruled by King Taranis. It is the court of light.

sidhe - Usually marked with triple irises and bright glowing skin. Sidhe (pronounced 'shee') literally means "people of the (fairy) hills". It is the Gaelic name for the fairies in both Ireland and the Highlands of Scotland.

slaugh [Weapon] - A rude name for the lesser Unseelie fey. The Host was a polite phrase. Only the Unseelie could say 'slaugh' and not have it be a mortal insult. They are ruled by Sholto, shadowspawn and a half sidhe, half nightflyer mix. Origin: A horde of evil spirits in Scotland, who fly in groups like birds. According to Irish legends, they are the souls of deceased sinners and they try to take other souls with them. They come flying from the west and therefore, when someone is dying, people keep the windows on the west-side closed. This way, the soul of the deceased can not be intercepted before it reaches heaven.

small flesh - Goblin slang for light foreplay.

Snick and Snack [Weapon] - Doyle's twin daggers, formed together at one making. They were able to hit any target once thrown.

Starvin' Ones [Weapon] - They are the remnants of the first gods. If someone were to discover their name and give them followers, they could, theoretically, rise to "life" again. Human ghosts do not have such options. To raise them would mean automatic execution with no trial.

Summerland - Place of death for Sidhe? Or in-between place where Deities linger.

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Triple Iris - Mark of pure blood sidhe. Three colored eyes. Usually the darkest in the most outer ring, the middle color, for the most colored part of the eye, and the lightest in the most inner ring.

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Unseelie Court - Also known as the lesser court or the dark court ruled by Andais, Queen of Air and Darkness. They take in all those turned away from the Seelie court.

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Virgin Rights - Virgin Rights in the old Celtic ideal was a woman who stood on her own, owing nothing to anyone for a space of time. Three years was minimum for claiming it at court. To be virgin meant that who ever claimed was outside any old feuds or grudges.

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wards - Spells designed for protection. A sort of invisible wall, or feeling to keep people out.

weak blood -Goblin slang for barely breaking the skin, or even just raising welts.

wild magic -Magic that belongs to no one and cannot be tamed.

will-o'-the-wisps -The Seelie version of the demi-fey.

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Yule Ball - Also known as Christmas.


~ FACTS ~ - encyclopedia of fey - dictionary - characters ~ ENTERTAINMENT ~ - message board - links	Fey Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Abyss of Despair [Weapon] Ard-Ri Beathalachd [Weapon] Black Coach of the wild hunt [Weapon] Black Madness "Bainidhe Dub" [Weapon] Branwyn's Tears [Weapon] brownie Bureau of Human and Fey Affairs cauldron/chalice Cahokia (Faerie Mounds) corr Cromm Cruach demi-fey Dreaded Death "Uamhas" [Weapon] Dread of Death "Vamhas" [Weapon] elf-struck fade faeriephiles Fertility Rite fey Film noir Firbolgs Geas of celibacy Geamhradh Po'g (Winter Kiss) [Weapon] glamour goblins [Weapon] goblin war green man Grey Detective Agency, The gwynfor Hallway of Mortality Hellhounds [Weapon] High Court hoarfrost Holmby Hills Jack-in-Irons Kane and Hart Kiss of Birds* Mortal Dread [Weapon] The Nameless [Weapon] night hags nightflyer Phoukas Prince of Old Blood Princess of Blood Princess of Flesh Queen of Air and Darkness Ravens [Weapon] Red Caps roane The Roses [Weapon] Samhain Seelie Court sidhe slaugh [Weapon] small flesh Snick and Snack [Weapon] Starvin' Ones [Weapon] Summerland* Triple Iris Unseelie Court Virgin Rights wards weak blood wild magic will-o'-the-wisps Yule Ball A Top Abyss of Despair [Weapon] - A bottomless pit located with the Sithin. If someone was to be cast into the abyss, they would literally fall forever, never aging, never dying, trapped in free fall for eternity. Ard-Ri - high king B Top Beathalachd [Weapon] - A ring that gives the bearer vitality. It literally steals the very life and skill of your opponent. Sholto wore it while fighting Doyle. Black Coach of the wild hunt [Weapon] - "The Black Coach is an object that has an energy of its own. It was not created by any fey or ancient god that they knew of. It has simply existed for six thousand years and changes as time goes. Before it took the limousine form of today, it was a black chariot pulled by four black horses. The horses were things of darkness with empty eye sockets that filled with leprous flame." It answers to Andais's voice and now Merry's. The Black Coach had been a death portent, warning of impending doom. "There were beginnning to be tales of a sinister black car sitting across from a person's home with its engine running and green fire dancing along its surface, and then doom would fall on that person." Black Madness "Bainidhe Dub" [Weapon] - Also called Bainidhe Dub, Doyle's sword. If anyone besides him were to try and wield it they would be struck permanently mad. Branwyn's Tears (Aveal's Joy), (Fergus's Sweat) [Weapon] - A clear oil that turns a human into a sidhe lover for a night. No glamour can stand against it. If a sidhe were to give it to a mortal to use against other fey, the punishment is eternal torture. brownie - The worker faeries said to clean your house while you sleep. Merry's grandmother is a brownie who owns a bed and breakfast. One of their powers includes levitating. Bureau of Human and Fey Affairs - A government organization that controls the use of fey magic and relations. According to the bureau, it's illegal to have sex with humans without protecting their minds. C Top cauldron/chalice - "This is the cauldron. The cauldron that can feed thousands, and never go empty. The cauldron from which the dead warriors can rise again, alive the next day, though robbed of their speech. This is a thing of elemental power for our people..." Doyle SbM p94 Cahokia (Faerie Mounds) - Also called the Sithin which is located in Cahokia, Illlinois. Like the Black Coach, it has a life of its own and frequently redecorates at its own will. corr - nightflyer word for slut Cromm Cruach - "Hail, Cromm Cruach, who slew Tigernmas, Lord of Death, for his pride and his crimes against people." Doyle about Rhys SbM p67 D Top demi-fey - Small fey who look somewhat like butterflies or birds and are ruled by Queen Niceven. It is said that where the demi-fey travel, faerie follows. The demi-fey seem to have many secrets, one of which is growing larger to become human-size. Dreaded Death "Uamhas" [Weapon] - Rhys's sword. Dread of Death "Vamhas" [Weapon] - Rhy's axe. E Top elf-struck - If a sidhe has sex with a human and doesn't try to tone down the magic, they turn a human into an addict. Those that are elf-struck can actually wither and die from want of the touch of sidhe flesh. F Top fade - When a sidhe chooses to die, he fades. Once it is started, it can't be stopped. Some of the lesser fey fade in truth with their skin turning translucent. faeriephiles - Human groupies that follow the sidhe around. This can often turn into a cult. Fertility Rite - A spell performed to get someone with child (increase fertility). fey - A person or place possessed of magical properties Film noir - A film style that was popular during the 1940's. Very stylized, almost stilted acting. Firbolgs - They were semi-divine inhabitants of the British Isles and Ireland. The firbolgs were defeated in one of the first fey battles over several thousand years ago. G Top Geas of celibacy - It was the royal's privilege to sleep with her bodyguards, her Ravens, until one of them made her pregnant; then she wed that one and didn't sleep with the rest. Andais could have freed them to have other lovers, but she chose not to. Unless they slept with her, they slept with no one. Geamhradh Po'g (Winter Kiss) [Weapon] - Also known as Winter Kiss, Frost's sword. It could steal a fey's passion with one blow. It would leave them cold and barren as a winter snow. glamour - Magic that can change a fey's appearance for the eyes of humans. Only few sidhe can work glamour on other sidhe. This is considered an insult to do so without permission. goblins [Weapon] - Goblins are considered the foot soldiers of the Unseelie Court since they do most of the fighting during war. Kurag is the goblin king. They consider anything that comes out of the body more valuable than jewels or weapons. It was also an insult if the men did not leer at your women. It implied that she was ugly and infertile. An alliance can be formed with the goblins if the rights of both blood and flesh are invoked. Sex should always be negotiated before starting when dealing with goblins. goblin war - A war between the sidhe and goblins over 2 thousand years ago. Kitto was a product of this war. green man - The green man was a nickname for the Goddess's Consort, sometimes a name for the generic forest god used in fertility rites. Grey Detective Agency, The - Owned by Jeremy Grey and based in LA. The agency specializes in detective work dealing with supernatural problems, magical solutions. gwynfor - the white lord (sage refers to Rhys as this) H Top Hallway of Mortality - The Sithin's torture chamber. Hellhounds [Weapon] - Also known as the 'hounds of the great hunt'. They foreshadow death or doom. High Court - Just like the medieval hierarchy, this is the court of the royals. hoarfrost - servant of sidhe who became Jack Frost. Holmby Hills - An area not unlike Beverly Hills. Once the place to live, now it's too expensive for most modern stars to afford. J Top Jack-in-Irons - In folklore, it is a Dangerous giant from Yorkshire that can often be found haunting lonely roads. Double tusked is highly prized and a curve on the end is considered a sign of virility. Uther is one of them. K Top Kane and Hart - Kane was a psychic and a martial arts expert. The Hart brothers were two of the most powerful human magicians that I'd ever met. The agency did more bodyguard work. Kiss of Birds - A gift from the deity (male) to heal anyone who you kiss. M Top Mortal Dread [Weapon] - The Queens� sword. The hilt had on it a trio of crows, their breasts meeting, wings entwined, and beaks open bearing jewels for the pommel. The sword had mortal blood ties to its forging, which meant that a death wound from it was truly a death wound for any fey. N Top The Nameless [Weapon]- It was the last attempt by both courts to keep the courts from dying. Every fey was required to put magic into the nameless and it was held somewhere within faerie to keep the magic from disappearing. It's a evil manifestation of the powers from all the sidhe combined into one form. It could only be physically seen if it had been hurt because it could move through time and space. night hags - Female nightflyers of the slaugh. nightflyer - A winged creature under the command of Sholto. Few creatures in Faerie were stronger than Sidhe, nightflyers were one of them. Most of their body parts are able to regenerate and contain a nest if tentacles resting in their abdomen. The royals have spine down the length of their peni which meant they were fertile males. P Top Phoukas - A type of fey that can change shape from a horse to a dog to a human or any mix of the above. Prince of Old Blood - "He could bring every bleeding wound I have had in over a thousand years of battles on me at once." Doyle about Prince Cel Princess of Blood - "I pointed my left hand toward the creature, palm out, and thought, not the word blood but of blood. I thought about the taste of it, salty, metallic; the feel of it fresh and almost scalding hot in large doses, the way it thickened when it cooled. I thought of the smell of blood-that neck-ruffling scent and the way enough of it freshly spilled always smelled like meat, like raw hamburger." Princess Merry calling blood from the Nameless. Princess of Flesh - "To be trapped forever as a shapeless ball of flesh, never to die, never to age, merely to continue; oh yes, Princess, I think they will be afraid." Doyle to Meredith about her new hand of power. Q Top Queen of Air and Darkness - Queen Andais is the Queen of Air and Darkness. She can hear things spoken in the dark of night. R Top Ravens [Weapon] - There were three times three times three royal bodyguards. Twenty-seven warriors dedicated to my aunt's every wish. Red Caps - A type of goblin. "Once all Red Caps had had to dip their hats in blood to get that crimson color. The blood dried up, and you would have to have another battle to dip you hat in the blood of your enemies. The custom had made the Red Caps some of the most feared warriors among us; for sheer bloodthirstiness, it was hard to beat them." SbMp328 roane - Irish seal fairies. The can step in and out of their skin changing from human to seal form. The Roses [Weapon] - The roses were used for defense. If an enemy penetrated that far within the Sithin, the roses would come to life and kill the intruder either by strangulation or by ripping them apart with its thorns. The roses are a symbol of the sidhe power. It is said that as the roses die, so does the power of the sidhe. Merry made the flowers live again. S Top Samhain - Halloween Seelie Court - Also called "the Bringers of Beauty and Wishes" whose power descends from their King or Queen. The Seelie Court is ruled by King Taranis. It is the court of light. sidhe - Usually marked with triple irises and bright glowing skin. Sidhe (pronounced 'shee') literally means "people of the (fairy) hills". It is the Gaelic name for the fairies in both Ireland and the Highlands of Scotland. slaugh [Weapon] - A rude name for the lesser Unseelie fey. The Host was a polite phrase. Only the Unseelie could say 'slaugh' and not have it be a mortal insult. They are ruled by Sholto, shadowspawn and a half sidhe, half nightflyer mix. Origin: A horde of evil spirits in Scotland, who fly in groups like birds. According to Irish legends, they are the souls of deceased sinners and they try to take other souls with them. They come flying from the west and therefore, when someone is dying, people keep the windows on the west-side closed. This way, the soul of the deceased can not be intercepted before it reaches heaven. small flesh - Goblin slang for light foreplay. Snick and Snack [Weapon] - Doyle's twin daggers, formed together at one making. They were able to hit any target once thrown. Starvin' Ones [Weapon] - They are the remnants of the first gods. If someone were to discover their name and give them followers, they could, theoretically, rise to "life" again. Human ghosts do not have such options. To raise them would mean automatic execution with no trial. Summerland - Place of death for Sidhe? Or in-between place where Deities linger. T Top Triple Iris - Mark of pure blood sidhe. Three colored eyes. Usually the darkest in the most outer ring, the middle color, for the most colored part of the eye, and the lightest in the most inner ring. U Top Unseelie Court - Also known as the lesser court or the dark court ruled by Andais, Queen of Air and Darkness. They take in all those turned away from the Seelie court. V Top Virgin Rights - Virgin Rights in the old Celtic ideal was a woman who stood on her own, owing nothing to anyone for a space of time. Three years was minimum for claiming it at court. To be virgin meant that who ever claimed was outside any old feuds or grudges. W Top wards - Spells designed for protection. A sort of invisible wall, or feeling to keep people out. weak blood -Goblin slang for barely breaking the skin, or even just raising welts. wild magic -Magic that belongs to no one and cannot be tamed. will-o'-the-wisps -The Seelie version of the demi-fey. Y Top Yule Ball - Also known as Christmas.