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Fomor in [u]Skin Game[/u]
Bad Alias:
The Fomor do have a weakness to iron. That's why Butters was driving an older car made out of steel instead of plastic.
IRL, the Fomor are an early race of gods/fae from Irish mythology. Various sources place their arrival in Ireland at 100 years after Noah's flood or some point before the second group arrived in 2061 BC. The second group brought the plow to Ireland.
Ireland was a bit behind the rest of Europe technologically. In the DF, the last time the Fomor dealt with humans on mass, the pitchforks might have been made of wood, and they probably had some human worshipers on their side.
Avernite:
--- Quote from: g33k on September 23, 2019, 01:13:13 AM ---Hmmm. It may be something other than sheer arrogance. Because the Turtlenecks seem very happy to use modern weapons, and very competent in doing so. I presume they are following orders of those higher-ups. This speaks to the bosses having a good idea what the modern mortal weapons ARE capable of.
Also, those boss-monsters seem to be deep-water / oceanic sorts by preference, which gives them a fastness to retreat which is IN the mortal realm, but not terribly vulnerable to mortal attacks...
Last but not least, the Fomor don't have that special Fae weakness to iron (or any other mortal / modern / tech advantage Our Sort is looking able to bring to the fight).
I agree they're acting aggressive and arrogant; but then again, it looks like arrogance vs everyone, not just mortals... And I'm really unclear why the guys who LOST the last war are now so (over?)confident.
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I recall one of the shorts mentioned a Prosthanos society in the Baltic who might have done things like plaving gills in themselves, so I'm wondering - are the Fomor maybe more of an alliance between magically powerful but rather clueless real-Fomor, and a human support structure of agressively modern Turtlenecks (and their ilk)?
So my idea: The Turtlenecks consider themselves human-enough to not need to hide (after all most of them are strong humans with gills at most), so they think a general supernatural awakening is okay (only the Wizards and maybe White Court could match their hiding, if they abandon their powerbases in favour of their humanity - leaving the underdog-Turtlenecks suddenly on a level play-field) while the real-Fomor are clueless and have been out of it for centuries so think humans are no real threat.
Bad Alias:
It was Backup. I don't think it's an alliance. The Servitors, are, well, servitors of the Fomor.
g33k:
Also, IIRC, "the Fomor" are not a "the" but a "they" -- multiple groups, presumably with the main or dominant one the Irish-legend "Fomor."
But I'm pretty sure we learned that they were a coalition / alliance of groups the Fae had pushed out of power, exiled and largely forgotten/ignored (until very recently).
toodeep:
I believe the servitors have been seen in three stories so far: Backup, Bombshells, and Ghost Story. In all three, the Servitors have appeared scarily competent, while the Fomor have appeared powerful but arrogant/stupid. The servitors also have most of their sense of self removed and astonishing loyalty installed, thought that might be unique to the servitor leader we've met. This is a strange combination, to have the servants being the smart ones. In Bombshells we learned that lead servitor was a "pet" of the queen (I think) and not directly subservient to the Fomor present, and even willing to disobey him to further their ends. So the competence of the Servitors may be a reflection of the competence of the Fomor leader, and we might being seeing weeding out of some of the more... questionable members of the Fomor nobility on display so far.
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