Board Thread:Fan-made Monsters/@comment-44464716-20200110170506/@comment-44464716-20200112010607

@The Weary TimeLord Interesting. I had never read anything about revealing a true name; different versions of the stories I guess. By the way, were the tests (i.e. the leading him on and then getting him to tell between her and an illusion of her) in the stories your grandmother told?

In regards to her being less vindictive, I got the idea of her forgiving her husband but forcing him to live with her from the story of Sir Lanval, which, while a Medieval French story, has its roots in Celtic Myth.

Basically, a wandering knight who society considers worthless for being a middle child meets and falls in love with a Fae princess. She agrees to date him if he agrees to keep her and the relationship secret. He agrees, the two fall in love, and she provides him gifts that help him regain his status. But, when he stays at the home of the king, the king's wife tries to seduce him, and, when it fails, she accuses him of trying to seduce her. He retorts that he's in love with a woman far more beautiful than her, and the court gives him several days for said woman to show up and prove his innocence. He calls for her, but she doesn't show, and he realizes that it's because he broke his promise. He is truly sorry for what he has done, and because of that, on the very last day of the trial, she arrives (My personal interpretation is that she had already forgiven him for some time and waited until the last minute simply to watch him sweat). Disillusioned with the human world, he leaves with her to Otherworld.