ROA - Dangerous Desire (Part 3 posted 9/11)

[jastes22]

Haha as blissfully ignorant as I am, I didn't have any idea they were different. I just kind of assumed "fae" meant a creature that wasn't of this world, like a fairy or an elf.

It does to an extent - fairies and elfs are definitely included - but angels are from a different 'canon'. Basically fae are found in European pagan mythology and angels are found in more modern religious mythologies (most commonly associated with abrahamic religions such as Judaism and Christianity).

With that said, fantasy authors have been known to merge different mythologies. The Southern Vampire Mysteries book series (on which the True Blood TV show is based) specifically has fairies as the 'base type' of fae, with angels and demons (among many others) being some of the types they can choose to evolve into.

I suppose what I'm saying in a long winded way is, as long as it makes sense in your story, you can make the mythology what you want.

Good to know. Us fantasy writers tend to be rather nilly-willly with the rules as times.