Event X is the theft of one of the protags children by the fairies/fay/sidhe (by whatever name you want to call them). Which could conceivably be left to the basic tradition that says human children are stolen either because they are incredibly rare, or because they make good servants. But, that latter reason only makes sense to me when an older person is stolen, or lured into Faerie, and the first leaves me wondering: Why this child? Why this family? So those last are really the crucial questions.
I've played with several different options, none of which has quite worked out and one of which sparked an idea that might result in a family saga over several centuries. But, the more I've played with the core idea of that one, the more it's diverged in ways that would not easily bring me back to this story. (I've mentioned elsewhere recently that I'm very good at complicating things. Even, I will add, when it's simplification that's needed.)
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Event X is the theft of one of the protags children by the fairies/fay/sidhe (by whatever name you want to call them). Which could conceivably be left to the basic tradition that says human children are stolen either because they are incredibly rare, or because they make good servants. But, that latter reason only makes sense to me when an older person is stolen, or lured into Faerie, and the first leaves me wondering: Why this child? Why this family? So those last are really the crucial questions.
I've played with several different options, none of which has quite worked out and one of which sparked an idea that might result in a family saga over several centuries. But, the more I've played with the core idea of that one, the more it's diverged in ways that would not easily bring me back to this story. (I've mentioned elsewhere recently that I'm very good at complicating things. Even, I will add, when it's simplification that's needed.)