Excerpt: The Children of Fey: The Lost Faerie

The Prologue
Once upon a time, that’s how faerie tales start, right? Well, I guess this is a faerie tale so we’ll go with that. Once upon a time, in a land not so far away there lived people. Yes, they were people, but they weren’t normal people as you know them now because then this wouldn’t be a faerie tale. It would be something else, something probably a little less out of the ordinary. Anyhow, I was telling you that a long time ago there were people. Specifically, there were people who used magic. There were those who used their own magic and those who used other people’s magic. Well, I guess it’s a little more complicated than using other people’s magic. But we need to back-track a little to clear this issue up.
Back in the beginning, the humans and the faeries were one race. Some people were capable of using their own life-energy, or their Core, to create magic and they were lucky because they had a lot of this life-energy, or as some say, a stronger Core. The other people couldn’t do this and had a lot less life-energy. Then they began to realize they could create magic too. In fact it was just as easy for them, but they had to use the life-energy of others by weakening the other creature’s Core and harvesting the power for themselves. So their counterparts who seemed to have excess life-energy seemed the natural source. Eventually the humans, as we’ll call them, abused their power to such a degree that they dominated the Fey or faeries, as they like to be called. The humans found their gift of leeching power to be superior and refused to intermarry or allow their children to intermarry with the faeries. The children of humans with the gift of the Fey were cast out as inferior or kept as slaves. Fey children born with the human gift were killed out of suspicion and fear. After an indeterminate but fairly long and unrecorded period of time, the two became separate races with the humans claiming dominion over the Fey. After another long and undocumented period of time the faeries, of course, rebelled. But their rebellion was not the sort where they revolted and took over the ruling government. Instead, they just kind of disappeared one day. The humans were unaware of what happened so after another interval of time that was both long and unrecorded humans forgot about the faeries as well as their own magical powers. Soon enough, the world became what you know it to be. Or at the very least it became something similar to what you probably think it is.
The main difference between the world as it is and the world as you probably think it is is this: the Fey are still alive and well and they interact with the humans much more than most humans would be comfortable thinking about. And they have not forgotten their history.