Cities and Civilization development

As a forest based civiliization essentially every building will have to be completely redesigned. Some will be eliminated entirely, some replaced, and new resources and improvements developed. Artwork will be needed for all both 2D and 3D.

Current Proposed Resources:

• Berries
• Sun Bees
• Fox Dens
• Silverwood
• Ironwood (created?)
  
• Water Horses (rare)
• Seal Dens (Uncommon)

Eliminated Developments:

• Mines
• Quarries
• Stables

Proposed New Developments:

• Tree Nurseries
• Children's Creche
• Bathing Pools
• Kelpie Pools
• Barrow Hill
• Lord's Tower

Current Proposed Replacements (Stat. bonuses may not be 1 to 1 replacement and will likely differ)

Housing:

• Hut -> Lean-To
  
• Hovel -> Tree Hut
  
• House -> Tree House
  
• Estate -> Great Tree
  
• Palace -> World Tree

Settlements:

• Camp -> Mushroom Ring
• Hamlet -> Bonfire Portal
• Village -> Tree Portal
• City -> World Gate

Fae military

This part of the mod needs a ton of work to say the least. There might not be much to it until we start seeing how tactical combat works.

Here are some concepts though:

Fae can't produce metal weapons.

Disadvantages against Iron (and maybe Silver for some units)

No Seige Weapons

Lots of special Fantastical units. The Wild Hunt, Sprites, Dryads, Kitsune, Selkies.

More brainstorming and playtesting needed!

Fae are really interesting and under-used in games. I was expecting the seelie and the unseelie courts to be the two different factions but fae as refugees is also interesting. But, you should consider the unseelie court because evil fae are really awesome.

Hmm you might consider reflavoring the palaces from being "world trees". Spamming out "world trees" just doesn't sound good.

If we get an espionage system, the Fae could have a long-term tactic via changelings. Changelings might also be an interesting source for champions and could end up leading human or Fallen armies to attack the Fae mother who swapped them for a mortal.

Yeah I expect to add a lot more development plans as we see what systems we have to work with.

Overwhelming with weaker creatures I think will be an option for any force, but it is not something the Fae will excel at. Stories of the Fae Folk or Good Folk warn you about the dangers of being tricked, outwitted, or trying to match them in physical prowesss. Strength in numbers is often considered a good defense (after just staying away from them).

After I finish this mod I'm thinking about doing an Oni race mod which would focus more on the overwhelming in sheer numbers military strategy with a Death Magic using race. But this isn't that thread.

That's a good, ahem, point.

Maybe what Rishkith's idea might spawn is not just a single Fae faction mod, but a family of factions. There's a very wide range of faerie myths, even if you stay away from Monster Manual incarnations. Perhaps some of them, like selkies, might need to be simply Beast types and not playable factions, though.

i can start with getting you some concepts for male and female fae soverigns

Since Brad did his background, I figure I'll bring up the tentative one I have in mind.

The Fae are not from the world of Elemental. In their world they were a great and powerful world empire with great mastery over the magic of their world. They lived in great peace and harmony with their world's nature and did not seek after power...

until the Titans came. The Titans simply saw their world as a thing to be plundered. They wreaked great destruction upon their world and setup portals which channeled the magical energy of the Fae to another world that they had made into their dwelling. The world of Elemental. The Fae were helpless and could do nothing about the Titans but fate intervened. The Titans suddenly disappeared. This gave the Fae a chance. Their world was still being stripped of its power, but with the Titans gone the Fae could survive and eventually learn to do something about it.

A few great and powerful Channelers of the Fae have opened up the portals connecting from their world to Elemental and gone through. Some will seek to make this new world a home, some will seek to reverse what the Titans started. Some will work together, some will fight.

The Fae were all novice life shapers before the Titans came. After they came they first used these abilities to change and adapt their own bodies to what the Titans were doing to it to survive. The Fae were once all of one kind, but now they are many as they've sought many different ways of survival both in the old world and new. Additionally, in this new world they may find animals who are victims of the indigenous Men who are willing to have the Fae change their bodies to in order to be able to stand as equals and fight back against Men.

There is a downside to being strangers in a strange world. Things found on this world that are not found on their own are toxic to them, Iron and Silver are super rare elements on the Fae homeworld. But in Elemental they can be found in an abundance to be shaped into weapons that are Anathema to all Fae.

Will you join them? Make them your allies? or seek to defeat them?

Shapeshifters will be in, Werewolves will not.

You might be bumping on that awkward "race" word. Rishkith is planning a full set of factions that will include many different types of fey. Dig around on Wikipedia and you'll get a quick impression of how varied the folk lore is.

This is a valid point, fairy factions should live in environments in keeping with their nature.