The Will-o’-the-Wisp is a lesser fae, not that one would know it to hear men talk. The Wisp will lead a man astray, the Wisp will draw mortals away from the path to be lost in the wild wood forever. If they are seen again, if ever they are seen again, they are not the person that they once were.
It is desire that drives mortals to the Grove, desire for power or for wealth or for love. The Wisp will satisfy any desire, for a price. For some, the price may seem too steep. The price is always too steep, but not everyone realizes it.
The Wisp is a creature of deals and of bargains, give and take. One cannot take from the Wisp nor from the Grove without having something taken in return. The Wisp plays with words, but if one does not ask permission, than neither will the Wisp. These are the rules, though they go unwritten and unsaid.
For mortals, the waters of the Grove can heal, can rejuvenate, can work wonders. For witches it is a powerful reagent. For folk with magic in their blood, the waters will energize them and make their magic more powerful, for a time.
It is a lesser fae, but that does not mean other fae are free from paying the Wisp’s price. While magic, fae and otherwise, can lead one to the Grove uninvited, that does not mean it can be stolen from.
The Grove is beautiful and it is peaceful, and the Wisp is always perfect. Perfectly comforting or perfectly terrifying, beautiful or handsome, it is always exactly what is desired.
Whether it wants to be or not.
Guidelines
- The Wisp is essentially a backstory NPC, ideal for ruining lives or making them more complicated. Lots of dramatic irony, and so on.
- Basically the ideal character for this is either a huge asshole, kind of an idiot, or both. Nice characters will only work if they're naive and you want tragedy.
- More than one non-Wisp character in the Grove at one time gets messy, so consider asking me about it first.
- On entry it's a pretty good idea to describe exactly what your character is seeing when they see the Wisp, since it's defined almost entirely by what your character would most like to see.
- Non-human characters get Complicated but are workable.
- I'm always willing to fade to black if you consider a sex scene to be in-character but don't want to RP it.
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