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  • In addition there are two new main characters; Sela is a strangely powerful orphan seelie of common birth who is currently the only sane resident of the infamous Copperine House where the elves with uncontrollable powers are held, though they usually go mad before long.

    "The Office of Shadow" by Matthew Sturges (reviewed by Liviu Suciu) Liviu 2010

  • Ironfoot is a former soldier and currently a scholar working for the seelie main Academy and specializing in arcane magic and technology who is investigating the devastating "weapon of mass destruction" that the villainous unseelie Queen Mab had unleashed on a seelie city at the end of Midwinter.

    "The Office of Shadow" by Matthew Sturges (reviewed by Liviu Suciu) Liviu 2010

  • I had originally given permission to a Greek fanzine to use the story -- a bit of juvenalia about a battle between the seelie and unseelie faerie courts as seen as a basketball game that is unpublished (and likely to remain so) in English -- last year for a special theme issue on sports to coincide with the Olympics.

    Breakfast in Bed desayunoencama 2005

  • So young master sed, You may say any thing before Joseph; for, althoff he looks so seelie, he has as good a harte, and as good a hedd, as any sarvante in the world need to have.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • It is said that the sparhawk pryeth not upon the fowl in the morning, that she taketh over even, but as loath to have double benefit by one seelie fowl doth let it go to make some shift for itself.

    Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

  • It is said that the sparhawk pryeth not upon the fowl in the morning, that she taketh over even, but as loath to have double benefit by one seelie fowl doth let it go to make some shift for itself.

    Of Wild and Tame Fowls. Chapter XIII. [1577, Book III., Chapters 9 and 11; 1587, Book III., Chapters 2 and 5 1909

  • So young master sed, You may say any thing before Joseph; for, althoff he looks so seelie, he has as good a harte, and as good a hedd, as any sarvante in the world need to have.

    Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 Samuel Richardson 1725

  • Where the Wild Hunt are at the eck and call of the unseelie court and the seelie court are almost gone.

    Irish Blogs Susan Hated Literature 2010

  • _ Their seelie necks to ground with weaknesse bend.

    A Discourse of Life and Death, by Mornay; and Antonius by Garnier Robert Garnier 1591

  • There will be an assumed non-specific setting type, the principal assumption being that magic is hidden from the common folk and that technology is limited to full plate armour and arbalests (no firearms), other assumptions being that there is a spectral realm, a ghost realm and probably a seelie realm and an unseelie realm (rather than a single fey realm).

    theRPGSite Omnifray 2009

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  • Two of the most prominent categories of fairies, derived from Scottish folklore, are the division into the Seelie Court and the Unseelie Court. The Seelie (Blessed or Holy) Court was seen as more beneficent toward humans. They were known to seek help from humans, to warn those who had accidentally offended them, and to return human kindness with favors of their own. Still, a fairy belonging to this court would avenge insults and could be prone to mischief. The most common time of day to see them was twilight.

    _Wikipedia

    February 11, 2008