Redcaps are a type of land fae that acts as mercenary killers. One appears to attack October Daye in Rosemary and Rue.
About[]
Supposedly, redcaps are almost all paid thugs—they don’t attack at random, and they are viscous fighters. They can cloak their presence by a block-me illusion[1]
Not all Redcaps however are contract killers, as some are even employed as royal guards as proven in the High King's knowe.
They have thin lips, oversized yellow teeth, and an angry snarl. They average six and a half feet tall and are all muscle. They grin with shark-toothed malice.[1]
Characters[]
Unnamed Redcap[]
A redcap appears in the back seat of Toby's car. He shoots her with lead in the shoulder as she runs away, escaping on a bus.[2] A redcap, likely the same, attacks again as Toby is leaving Golden Gate Park after visiting the Tea Gardens. Toby and Julie tag-team him in a vicious fight. The redcap shoots Toby with iron in the leg and kills Ross Hampton with a shot in the head. Tybalt ambushes him from a tree and kills him.[3] Toby uses the Redcap's blood, left on Tybalt's shirt, ride its memories and learn Devin that sent him to kill her and get the Hope Chest.
Guard Redcap[]
Another Redcap appears in When Sorrows Come, acting as one of the guards under High King Aethlin Sollys's employ.
Mythology[]
A Redcap is a type of malevolent murderous dwarf, goblin, elf or fairy found in folklore of the Anglo-Scottish border. They are said to inhabit ruined castles found along the border between England and Scotland. Redcaps are said to murder travelers who stray into their homes and dye their hats with their victims' blood (from which they get their name). Redcaps must kill regularly, for if the blood staining their hats dries out, they die. Redcaps are very fast in spite of the heavy iron pikes they wield and the iron-shod boots they wear. Outrunning a redcap is supposedly impossible.
They are depicted as sturdy old men with red eyes, taloned hands, and large teeth, wearing a red cap and bearing a pikestaff in the left hand.
Other names include redcomb and bloody cap.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Rosemary and Rue
- ↑ Rosemary and Rue, ch. 14
- ↑ Rosemary and Rue, ch. 16
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