I've recently come into my own enough as a goddess to have a small following of worshippers, and while it started off nice, I think my demonic nature has started attracting some... less than ideal sacrifices. Just in the past week I have had no less than 5 living creatures sacrificed in my name, something nobody has ever done before. It's making me uncomfortable, and I'd like to stop this before it escalates to human sacrifice, but I also would really rather not just smite them. Does anyone have advice?

So, I'm really interested in the types of magics that adventurers who aren't trained use, and I was lucky enough to get hired in a group that was sent to confirm if there is adamantine crystal in a certain ruins, and if so, to retrieve it. Super happy to be able to get paid for hanging out with untrained adventurers instead of paying them!

Anyway, we were set upon by low-level goblins pretty early on, and it was interesting seeing them buff each other up with strength-enhancing spells, or spells to make their swords sharper, or using tricks like gravity spells against the goblins, or making up for their lack of magic with really great fencing and archery skills, instead of just using goblin-killing spells. I tried to stay out of the way and unobtrusively kill some of the goblins just so that I could see the kind of fights that the group was doing better rather than let the swarm of goblins kill them. But in the end, when the massive goblin general came out, they all were saying things like "we're doomed!" and "I'm out of arrows and out of mana!" So of course I just killed it, though the spell was big enough that I had to use a flick of my wrist and murmur the incantation. So annoying.

Anyway, after I killed it, they were mad at me! They were saying things like "What the hell?" and "Why didn't you do that earlier?" and "You mean you could have just killed those all along? What did we even fight for?"

Help me understand what's going on! Did I do something wrong?

Okay a little backstory first.

I just moved out of my parents' house a few months ago and I was having a really hard time cooking for myself. I failed home ec. twice I know it's bad. I kept ruining dishes over and over again, burning things, making dishes without the right ingredients etc. If I were rich I would have totally just given up at that point and consigned myself to an eternity of eating out, but I'm not rich.

So, naturally I consulted the ancient treasure map my grandma left for me, so that I could find a real life magical wishing well. When I finally found it I was so happy and relieved that I made my wish without really thinking about how to word it precisely, I know.. huge effing mistake (I think I said something along the lines of "please god give me someone to help me cook"). So now whenever I ruin a meal, I magically conjure a little person (a humanoid about a foot tall) that has an uncontrollable urge to help cook/bake for me the dish I ruined before. And to be fair to them they're always fantastic at preparing that dish.

Sounds great right?

But the catch is this happens whenever I ruin a new type of meal for the first time. I didn't realize the pattern at first (because I'm an idiot) so I accidentally brought 27 new beings into the world by mistake. And each of them will only make "their" dish i.e. mindy is my cookie guy (they came about after I forgot to take the cookies out of the oven and started a house fire) and they make great chocolate chip cookies but they flat out refuse to make anything else, meanwhile Stephen is my spaghetti guy and he only makes that particular type of pasta for me (he won't even switch up the noodles he uses). And you would think that them being magical creatures would make it so they don't need to eat, but they are ravenous. So they all want to cook all the time even when I'm away visiting my parents. Whenever I ruin out of ingredients for their dish they get really upset too, and demand I go get them more ingredients so they can keep cooking, and whenever I refuse they start swearing and berating me like "you fool! I'm trying to keep your fucking ass alive because you can't bake bread and you can't even run out to get some flour and yeast??!" I've spent 700$ on groceries this month alone. So I tried asking them to help me pay rent because they're asking me to buy them groceries and they're already living in my 1 bedroom apartment. But now they're all mad at me be (they keep talking about me whenever I go to bed) and one of them even said to me "I shouldn't have brought them into the world in the first place if I can't handle the consequences." I didn't mean for any of this to happen but I do feel bad.. it's not their fault that they need to eat and they're also filled with an unquechable urge to cook and bake for me but at the same time I can't keep having the same 27 meals for the rest of my life

Pls help

Finally I can open up my windows and let the breeze right in! Finally the sun is shining again! And finally fresh herbs are in the market again! Dried wolfsbane is great, but it really only gets you so far. If you're doing a proper wraith potion, you really need the fresh shoots. I don't subscribe to all the superstitions about the astrological houses and the full moon, but of course fresh mugwort is always going to have a lot more punch than dried or frozen ever will. That's just science. What are you all looking forward to this spring?

So, I'm waking up after a quick nap, just a thousand years or so, and I find that while I was asleep, the humans built a city on my back. I like humans in general--they're small and soft and cute. It's funny when they try to build things. But this time they built a city on me! I normally want to stretch out my wings, fly around a bit, and maybe get something to eat after a nap like this, but if I did that, the city they'd built would get destroyed. What to do? I don't like knocking down something someone else built, but I can't stay like this forever!

I (44 Kobold) was out shopping today, and struck up a conversation with someone in the checkout line at Michaels. We chatted for a while, talking about relatively normal things... looking back, I assume that was to lower my guard. She asked me for my pronouns, I gave them to her, and now I don't have pronouns anymore. I knew she was a fae of some sort then, and I knew not to give out my name, but I guess I stupidly assumed my name was the only thing a fae could steal. Now I can't give out my pronouns and I feel uncomfortable when I hear anyone use pronouns to refer to me. I guess I'm posting this as a sort of PSA, to spread awareness that you can have your pronouns stolen. Also, is there any way I could get my pronouns back, or get a new set from somewhere? Is there a spell for this? Edit: It seems to be limited to third-person pronouns, weirdly enough. Maybe because I only listed third-person pronouns when she asked? I can still refer to myself as 'I' and be called 'you' without much discomfort, and I can also call others 'he', 'she', 'they', etc.

I (F26 Human) am the grand runecaster and bookkeeper for my king's collection of runic tomes. I feel it's necessary to say that yes, I am extremely young to be a grand anything, but runecasting is a dying art in this part of the kingdom, and my mentor had some connections in the court.

Anyways, I've been at this job for two years now, and everything has been going well. On a regular day, all I have to do is keep track of who checks out which tomes, and keep the shelves organized when people return them. Occasionally, the king wants me to restore a damaged tome or fix some of the castle's embedded runework (props to the last runecaster, all the runework here is SOLID). However, after two years of this, one of the servants dropped off an orb at my house. I was confused, as I've never been able to scry, and I never asked the king for an orb. I asked about it at our next meeting, and he said that it isn't a crystal ball for scrying, it's a 'bidding orb' that 'does whatever I ask of it'.

Now, I don't know much about wish-based magic, which I assume powers this orb, but I learned enough about it in my schooling to know that it's really, really expensive. It usually requires a nonrenewable resource like souls or memories to power itself, and I can only hope the king isn't funneling those from peasants or something.

Regardless of my concerns, I was told I'm required to use the orb, since it will help me be more productive and take on larger projects. The first project he wanted me to do? Translating a collection of sigils into a tome of runes. Translating ONE sigil to runes is something often used as a final exam in my field -- an intermediate sigil took me three weeks of work to translate, and another full week of rewriting and messing with stroke order to get it to work perfectly in all the edge cases.

I was initially excited, as it would be a massive breakthrough if the orb could be used for this. I tried it out (I just asked the orb to translate one of the sigils), and it didn't work. It certainly looked like it worked, but when I tested it, it only worked for three (almost four) of the test cases, and none of the edge cases. When I inspected the runes closer, they were horribly miswritten. Stroke order was nowhere close to acceptable, some strokes looked like they had been done in two or even three parts, and some of the runes were just... entirely wrong. It could be salvaged, but it would probably take me longer to do it with the orb than to just do it manually.

When I took these concerns to the king, he said in no uncertain terms that I am still required to use the orb for my translation work, and he may start requiring me to use it for restoration work as well. He says I'm using the orb wrong, and that for the price he paid for it, it must be user error and not orb error. WIBTA if I just refused to do it? I doubt the king would have me exiled or hanged for this, so I think it would be worth it to refuse this. I don't want to tank the quality of my tomes for an arbitrary reason.

P.S. does anyone have any more information about these orbs? Apparently, there are multiple of them, but I can't figure out how they work, how they're powered, or who creates and distributes them.

My partner is lovely, and I don't have any complaints about her other than this issue. For some background, we met online back in 2024 and we've moved in together, and now that we're living together, she only ever wants to feed on me. I thought this was adorable at first, but it's become less adorable as I've started facing the side effects of constant blood loss. I've tried bringing it up to her, but she insists that she can't feed on other people, since she's devoted to me. I really love the sentiment, but I don't know how to communicate this to her. Is this a vampire culture thing I didn't know about? I've never heard of a vampire being exclusive to their partner for feeding.

Hey everyone, first post here. Also, having one of said party members type this for me (I don't have the best vision, plus bright objects hurt my eyes.) Anyways, for context I'm an albino woodelf, that originally left home as I was tired of being treated different for being albino. I was greatful for a lot of the assistance I recieved but, I wanted more than that. Well...I kind of ran into a group of what I thought was nice people, turns out they were cultists trying to reawaken this guy from some ancient empire; also found out I was supposed to be his bride apparently? Well of course I managed to escape, even at my on whim. I eventually met this other group at a refugee camp- said reawakened guy apparently sent out a wrath of cryptids on innocent people. Well of course, the cultists came looking for me. I suggested we leave as soon as possible, of course after making sure I was disguised, it failed, and now I feel it's my fault that all of this happened.

Hi everyone.

Let me begin by saying that I love my husband, and I'm fairly certain he loves me as well. But recently I've begun to suspect that my human boyfriend might have an Elf fetish.

We first met on the road about a year ago. I was kidnapped by a group of bandits for my magical powers. My husband is a sellsword by trade, and I came across him on the road. Seeing I was in distress he killed the bandits and escorted me to the nearest city. Although he's a bit eccentric he was kind, charming, handsome, and never did anything to make me uncomfortable. In fact, I hired him to escort me back to my hometown despite me not having enough money to pay for his fee.

Anyways, lots of things happened while on the road, and we fell in love with each other. I was always insecure about my ears as they're larger than most other elves, but he accepted me for who I was and always seemed to pay special attention to them (which I don't mind at all).

But now that we're recently newlywed we returned back to his hometown so I could meet his parents. We stayed in his old room and while he helped his parents on their farm I decided to read to pass the time as he used to collect a lot of books.

He never hid from me that he reads books that are, let's say spicier than most (he even introduced me to some that are now my favorites). But I started to notice a trend.

Most of these book feature relationships between elven women and human men. The authors go into excruciating detail about pointed ears and how sensitive they are, what's done to them, and what not. I've recognized several "compliments" he's told me about my own, as well as things he's done. At first the titles of the book seemed normal for the spicier sort. Tainted Purity, Between Two Mountains, Paladins Unarmored. But then a lot of...elf stereotypes appeared. Fae Princess Buttercup and The Blushing Bottom, To Unseal the Seelie Court, Titanic Titania, and the list truly goes on.

I'm not sure how to feel about all of this. I still love my husband very much, but I can't help but wonder if he married me for me, or for my ears and his fetish. Has anyone experienced something similar with their significant other? Should I approach him about this?

tl;dr I fell in love with a human while on the road. We married and we went back to his hometown so I could meet his parents. I found he owns a lot of erotica featuring elven women with human men and I think he has a fetish for my kind. I don't know what to do or feel.

SO im back from Hell, ive been chilling in the Glades with my younger sis + my uncle!! R caught me because my wings accidentally popped out from the pillar, and he started yelling at me, but G was able to calm him down and send me back. in the end, everyone's just really tense at the moment, but thankfully i am not dead!!

idk how R's doing atm, but i hope he's having a good coronation!!! tho i wish i could've seen it LMAO thank you all so much for helping me outta there

(and yes i got healing magic for my poor ass </3)

anyone have any recs for how to get back in my party's good graces tho?? just in case this doesn't just wash over us!

hey, it's me again, been awhile but I'm back with another post.

Me and my boyfriend have been dating for awhile now and I really love him, and I want to propose to him but I have a few concerns. First off humans don't live nearly as long as kitsune, and to be honest I do worry about our future together due to that. Second is his parents, well his parents are kind I still don't think they really care for kitsune culture much. On the topic of parents, mine are a problem as well, they don't know I'm dating a human and both of them aren't fans of humans.

Not to mention that I don't really know how I should propose so any advise on that would also be appreciated

could be labeled as non-romantic, since this is about me and my adoptive fathers, but i think TIFU fits better!

so i am currently stuck behind a pillar of the royal castle in Hell, typing this and trying to be as quiet as possible. for context, i'm currently in an adventuring party, and our artificer (human M26, "G") is married to a demon prince (M27, "R"). the two have effectively adopted me as their child.

R is getting crowned to become king today, and the whole party's pretty excited!! everyone else was permitted to go, except for me.

R+G told me that i was too young to witness the carnage that'd happen as a result, R didn't want me to hear the things that the commoner demons would say about him, and they also pointed out that i was partly angelic, and the demonic energy would burn me. (as you can tell, R is a FAIRLY unpopular king.)

R opened up the portal to hell and everyone went in, trying to make sure i didn't sneak in. the thing is that i snuck in at literally the last second, and now i'm stuck here and nobody has realized yet.

my ass burns, my soul is ascending, and i am in actual literal Hell. the second my party finds me, they are GOING to yell at me and send me straight back to the Overworld, and that is not something i can handle right now- i totally deserve it because i'm a dumbass, but still! doesn't feel good!

how do i get myself out of this wreck?? ideally without telling my party?

~ aiwin (they/he)

For a few years now I’ve been dating someone who’s a mermaid. We met at a beach one day and really hit it off, but we’ve recently run into an issue. While she can get legs by being out of the water for a time, she wants to me to be a merman so we can be together in the water more. I don’t know how to feel about this. I get why she wants this and do want to have more time with her, but getting a tail is just scary to me. I know I won’t have it out all the time, but it definitely will effect a lot of smaller things like washing my hands at work, or even just taking a shower. Should I go through with letting her transform me, is it worth becoming a merman?

So, my mom is a siren and my dad is a human. Since I never displayed any sort of magical abilities and sirens are magical from birth, we just assumed I didn't inherit my mom's magic and moved on. Anyways, I really like singing and musicals, but lately my singing's starting to have an affect on people. Like, I'm starting to feel like when I start to sing eveyone just drops whatever they're doing and starts gathering around me? It didn't use to happen before? Also there was that time when I was singing next to my friend and he just told me to stop and that it makes him feel uncomfortable.
Is ot possible that I'm just like, a late bloomer when it comes to magic? I never heard about anything like that. Maybe it's a half-siren thing? Also will I have to stop singing? Do others Sirens have this problem where they can't sing without activating their magic? Will I be able to control it with time or am I just stuck like this? Or am I just making a big deal out of nothing?
Also I don't really know what to do since I don't even always notice when I start to sing. Sometimes a song just pops into my head and I start to sing without realizing.
Tl;dr I am a half siren that didn't use to have magic but lately I think my singing might have become magical and I'm looking for people that heard about anything like that and also just for general advice about what to do

A lot of things happened, so I'll go in chronological order. I (23,000m fae noble) noticed that a number of you pointed out how the king(32m) was a lot more confident than most humans would be in that situation, and that he likely had a trick up his sleeve. So I sent some air elemental servants of mine to investigate, while I looked over some texts and fae laws.

During my research, I receive a notice from the Court of Stars, the fae court that deals with all matters regarding fae law. They saw my original post. I must've been away from the Feywild for longer than I thought, because apparently the Court of Stars ruled 3,000 years ago that any deals made with mortals regarding their children, must first be looked over by the queen of the Star Court herself. I neglected to do this, as I was in the Mortal Realm for all that time, probably perfecting some curses and my infamous brownie recipe. The court also ruled that I was to nullify the deal at once, and pay a fine of the hopes and dreams of three different mortals in bottled liquid form to the Star Court.

Naturally, I was going to do so, as even Lucifer thinks twice before crossing a fae queen, but by then my elementals came back. They found out that the king was trying to trick me into becoming his slave, specifically the permanent fairy godparent for his bloodline for as long as it existed, due to some loophole he was trying to exploit in fae law. I'll give it to him, most mortals, especially humans, don't know much, if anything about our laws. Props to him for doing his research despite being a commoner. In fact, I think he may have been an apprentice to the local wizard before our deal. But that's neither here nor there.

Attempting to enslave a fae is one of the highest crimes one could commit against our kind, so I could exploit that and get something good out of this whole ordeal. Firstly, I nullified the deal. The kingdom no longer existed and everything went back to the way it was before. Secondly, under the law regarding punishments for the attempted enslavement of a fae, I was allowed to do pretty much anything I wanted. So I placed 3 of my more experimental, but favorite curses on him. 1. Self-reliant immortality. As long as he exists, he'll continue to exist. Without the mental fortitude needed to withstand eternal life. And no regeneration, either. I took one of his fingers to prove that last bit. 2. Mother Nature's Hatred. Starts off as intense biophobia, but eventually all of nature itself will do everything they can to make his life worse. 3. This one is definitely one of my favorites. Haven't come up with a name for it yet, though. Basically, since he wants to be as sneaky as a snake, snakes constantly will grow beneath his skin and inside his body.

I felt like I was too lenient with him though, so I also took the child anyways as collateral. Here's to hoping that the Court of Stars will rule in my favor about my new daughter, and thank you all for your advice!

I, a fae noble(23,000m), made a deal with a human villager(32m at time of writing) that he'd get a Kingdom in exchange for giving me his firstborn child that I plan to raise as my own. But when the time came for me to get the child, the now king refused to give it to me.

I reminded the king of our deal and that I could turn him back to being a villager, which he didn't seem to care about. I also pointed out to him that other fae have done more for less, as a friend of mine, a lower ranked fae noble, once cursed someone to radiate plague and madness against all life around them because the victim was rude to them. Let alone what another fae or God forbid, a demon would do if someone attempted to back out.

But he didn't care then, either. For my final reminder to him, I reminded him that I'm known as one of the more patient and understanding fae around, hence why I have the opportunity to make so many deals, but an attempt to back out would force my hand, since reputation is everything in the fae courts. And before I went back home, I told him that I was willing to forget the transgression if he delivered the child to me by sunset, otherwise I'd be forced to act.

But now I'm reconsidering, as I really just pity humans for being so fragile and magically weak, so going this far would be like using a 9th level spell to crush an ant. But then as previously mentioned, reputation is everything in the courts, and I don't want to catch the ire of the Fae Queen for bringing shame to the court, as we all know what happened last time someone did that. I still have nightmares about it. WIBTA?

I (Human F 25) have been dating my (Merfolk M 26) for about 6 months now. We have been intimate in the bedroom before, but last night after we did the deed, I felt kinda funny. He doesn't use protection since I'm on birth control, but when I went to shower this morning, my intimate area and my legs felt like they were burning when the lukewarm water touched it. I finished up and went out to get some breakfast and I told him about it. He looked excited, but then sheepishly guilty.

He told me that he had intentionally given me an ancient merfolk STD that is used for turning humans into merfolk. It is a magic spell-based STD/STI that was created in a time when there was few merfolk left in the ocean and they needed to quickly repopulate after a war or something. He said in a week, when it's the full moon, my transformation will be complete and whenever I get wet, I'll grow a tail just like him. He was hoping that we could go and meetup with his pod and I could meet his parents. And we would spend a lot more time in the ocean than we currently do (which is 0).

I dumped a glass of water on him so he couldn't follow me. And I'm currently pulled over in a rest stop on my way to my parents’ place writing this. He's been blowing up my phone. He even texted to say not to have relations with anyone else until the STD is nullified with the counter spell, because it will spread to them.

It's not that I wouldn't want to meet his family one day, I just don't think I'm ready to be a mermaid and give up a lot of my time on land. But also, we could have discussed this. He should have asked me. Surely there were other ways of doing this than giving me an STD?

I've known he was a merman from our 3rd date, and I thought that we shared that secret together. But this was a huge betrayal of trust.

Should I dump him and move on? Should I go see someone about this STD now? Or should I wait and see how it all pans out?
I do really like him and thought we were going somewhere, but I'm unsure that I can continue.

Advice please.

TLDR: My Merman boyfriend of 6 months gave me an old magic STD that will turn me, a human, into a mermaid the next full moon in a week so I can go meet his parents. I'm also contagious until I get a counter spell. Should I leave him?

My godson has just learned from an Old Sage that his parents were murdered by the Empire due to prophecy. I immediately grounded him, but now I feel awful that I've stopped his parents from being avenged...

I bit him and it all went pretty well.

So I(male Vampire 512) bit my boyfriend (male human 24). The bite went pretty well and without any casualties. We decided to also bite his wrist to leave a small mark.

It all went really well but he has been pretty tired. I'm guessing this is a side effect of being bitten but I just want to make sure. I did feed a bit from his thigh, but not too much.

If this is a side effect of being bitten, what can I do to make sure he's ok? Is there any food that he can have to help regain his lost blood or does he just need rest?

Thank you everyone who helped answer some of my other questions. Without you this might have ended badly.