Among the most familiar of the seelie fae, brownies will often observe and mimic human activity, and are known to master human trades such as carpentry, cobblery, and joinery. This has made them, unfortunately, key targets for exploitation, especially as the laws in force among the Emperor-King’s subjects do not apply to fae. Many an unscrupulous tradesman has been found to be using an all-brownie workforce, kidnapping the creatures and packing them together inhumanely on a diet of moldy bread and water. It is thought by some in the Collegium that brownies represent a prior and lower form of life that since evolved into the High Seelie such as elves, but this theory has been consistently resisted by conservative collegisters.

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