"Breeder fairies are low status compared to spontaneous kinds," she says. "They have worse kind magic on average and start vassaled to whoever names them, so any given one you meet is probably low-ranked within their own court unless you get the ancestor. Languages are just weird; somebody might have a hobby of learning them and that wouldn't be lower-status than having a hobby of copying art books or weaving grass."
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Date: 2016-05-29 07:30 pm (UTC)