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Do fey generally reproduce like animals and humanoids, if their form would allow that? Do they pop up via abiogenesis in powerful natural sites? Do they hop over in places where the First World is coterminous with the Material Plane (some of the fey in Irrisen are from the First World if I remember right)?
I found this post which also has some interesting ideas; I'm fine with houseruling it if it comes to that
Does Fey Revisited have this info, or do any other books?
Fey Revisited talks at some length about the reproduction of dryads.
It depends on the type of fey.
You will find several informations in Fey revisited.
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Do fey generally reproduce like animals and humanoids, if their form would allow that? Do they pop up via abiogenesis in powerful natural sites? Do they hop over in places where the First World is coterminous with the Material Plane (some of the fey in Irrisen are from the First World if I remember right)?
Yes. :)
As others have mentioned, Fey Revisited has some info on the more common types.
As for houseruling it, my setting for the Plane of Faerie (pre-Paizo's First World) was this:
I kinda think of the Plane of Shadow as a mirror of the Plane of Faerie. To GM-Me, Faerie exists as a transitional plane between the Positive Energy Plane and the Prime Material; likewise, the PoS is the transitional plane between the Prime and the Negative Energy Plane. Both Shadow and Faerie absorb bleeding energies and traits from their neighbors, but that doesn't make either one inherently evil or good. I think some powerful undead and shadow outsiders would migrate and thrive in Shadow, but that is to due to its muted twilight light and faint necromantic aspect, not for any evil alignment. Certainly native beings like fetchlings or dhampirs aren't inherently evil, despite the sliver of Shadow or Undeath, respectively, in their souls.
Perhaps Faerie and Shadow were once the same transitive plane, and have slowly drawn apart over the eons? Or perhaps there was a Plane Shattering Event in the immemorial past?...
To me, Faerie is more than a prototype for the Prime Material; it's the realm of ultimate possibilities. While it may be lightly bound to pesky dull laws of physics and axiomatic powers, it should instead be shaped and reforged by sort of a collective narrative by both it's inhabitants and the unwitting daydreamers/storytellers on the Prime. Realms right out of Lewis Carroll, Suess, Dali, Van Gogh, cubist Picasso, Roger Dean, and thousands more all exist as neighbors. Some areas are oversaturated HDR-corrected color explosions, some are translucent watercolors and pastels, some are pointillist, and some are stark chiaroscuro landscapes... and they can bleed and shift into each other. It's a place even gods would hesitate to inhabit: a plane that can reshape itself and entire species into fantastic creations based on the collective Id, stories, and songs of Primes would also have the ability to eventually bend, fuse, or splinter the Powers themselves if they dally too long.
As I ruled it, most fey don't reproduce by the biological act as Prime humanoids and animals do. They reproduce by extended "contact" with sentient humanoids: talking, flirting, listening to stories/legends/old wives' tales, and social interactions. This body of accumulated experiences is what germinates a new life within the fey, and its development is shaped/influenced further by local events, both good and bad, and nearby communities.
You should also probably mine Mikaze's and Set's brains for further ideas. :)
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That is cool.
After a year adventuring with the party, their fey mascot leaves and then returns a few years later, bring its child with it.
Fey: this is our love child.
Shocked adventurer: but we didn't...
Fey: oh that isn't necessary, but I remember the way you were looking at my thighs. Ha ha, all that is required is talking and a bond, words and stories and flirting are life.
Shocked adventurer: I'm... a father?
Fey: yes dear.
Consoling wizard: you kept it in your pants and still got her pregnant. Well done.
Male fey: YOU MADE ME LIKE THIS!
Cool wizard: that ain't pretty...
Wizard uses massive amounts of fire, it is the only way to be sure. The rest of the party head to the nearest church for some prayer and babbling.
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Realms right out of Lewis Carroll, Suess, Dali, Van Gogh, cubist Picasso, Roger Dean, and thousands more all exist as neighbors. Some areas are oversaturated HDR-corrected color explosions, some are translucent watercolors and pastels, some are pointillist, and some are stark chiaroscuro landscapes... and they can bleed and shift into each other. It's a place even gods would hesitate to inhabit: a plane that can reshape itself and entire species into fantastic creations based on the collective Id, stories, and songs of Primes would also have the ability to eventually bend, fuse, or splinter the Powers themselves if they dally too long.
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