humans hanging around

[marycatelli]

Building the masquerade and the magical worlds within it -- and I think there's going to be some humans hanging around in some, aware of the magical beings.

Not wizards -- well, not necessarily -- some might incidentally have some magic, but that's not why they are there.

I think I have concluded that they were people too tightly entwined with the magical creatures to be torn away.  As long as they are bound not to blurt out the truth when they meet the ignorant, and don't themselves realize there's more magical beyond -- so they don't go and become nuisances -- they can fit in nicely in the worlds of trolls or dragons.  Might not be fun for them, but it would work.

Comments

[ford-prefect42.livejournal.com]

I liked the way the dresden books handled it. Sure, there are some people that know, and sure, it's all "secret", but basically, just because the bulk of people aren't willing to believe in magic and faeries anymore.

[marycatelli]

I think he pushed it too far. Yes, people often don't want to believe -- but then, other people DO want to believe, or don't want to believe and engage in fear-fulfillment dreams.

I think it needs something like the effect in the early Percy Jackson books or in Neverwhere, where people are made to forget. Somehow.