Telling you, these asshats heard Sturgeon's Law (90% of everything is crap) and said "give half a trillion dollars and we can get that up to 99.999, easy."

Can we also agree to make well-protected men into punching bags?

For balance?

Grrrrraaaagh! That's... ::forehead vein bulges::

Some thing... are forever.

Fae races face 1960s style racism, goblins in particular. It comes up a bunch.

Spoilers!

Adorable!

Rakos. I wanted something that sounded orcish, but could be nicknamed into something human.

His dad called him Ray.

Poetry.

Wouldn't be much conflict in the book if everyone was considerate, now would there?

It started with the mass immigration of fae via divine portals, fleeing the doom of the Fae Realms. Lasted about 75 years after the Realm Wars that followed.

The fae gods' clerics were many, their prayers powerful: Their gods watched.

After, their power faded. Fewer clerics, weaker prayers.