The Sluagh Sidhe are a type of Air Fae. As such they presumably have the power of flight, or at the very least floating on the air.
About[]
Little is known about the Sluagh Sidhe, since, as Oversky fae, they are fairly isolated from the Land and Undersea fae. They are described as "creepy".[1]
Characters[]
- Duke Islay of Staggered Clouds: Islay attends the Conclave for Elf-Shot.
Quotes[]
- “Duke Islay was a thin man with shadows in his eyes and hair like a storm cloud. He floated down the aisle, his feet pointed down at the carpet, and settled in an open seat with no immediate neighbors. I couldn’t blame him for that. If he’d settled next to me, I would probably have moved. The Sluagh Sidhe are as much a part of Faerie as anyone else, but they’re damn creepy, and I’ve always been glad that they belonged to the Oversky.”[2]
Mythology[]
In Irish and Scottish folklore the Sluagh were the spirits of the restless dead. Sometimes they were seen as sinners, or generally evil people who were welcome in neither heaven nor hell, nor in the Otherworld. They are almost always depicted as troublesome and destructive. Usually taking a crescent form, similar to a flight of grey birds, they were said to be able to approach and pick up a person from any direction and then transport them far away through the air, from one island to another. Although they could sometimes rescue humans from dangerous rock clefts, they were generally portrayed as dangerous to mortals.
Sluagh translates to "host, army, or crowd." They were also called the Sluagh na marbh ('host of the dead'),
See Also[]
References[]
- ↑ One Salt Sea Ch. 5
- ↑ Once Broken Faith Ch. 5
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