Comment on Vunderfoxen by BlueNephelim
Thank you! They're admittedly a big of an excuse for me to get nuts with bright colors, but I do like them nonetheless - or maybe because of that. ^_^
They hunted them using children as decoys. Either the children would pretend to be lost, or, just as often, they would take a serf or slave child and just dump the in the woods while following at a safe distance - then the child calling out would attract the vunderfoxen to investigate. Sometimes they would sense something amiss and stay clear, which was one of the reasons hunters started using genuinely abducted and lost children - more authentic and more likely to fool the creatures. However, they catch on fast if you stay in the same area, so repeat hunters started having horrific things happen to them on the trail... One of the reasons the practice died out is that you never know if the local vunderfoxen are aware of the ploy. They can live for centuries, so if some guy tried this ruse in the area 300 years ago, they will still remember and take it out on you. Eventually, that and the Green Wars (a territorial struggle of mortals vs. Fey) pretty much put an end to the practice, at least on a large scale.
They hunted them using children as decoys. Either the children would pretend to be lost, or, just as often, they would take a serf or slave child and just dump the in the woods while following at a safe distance - then the child calling out would attract the vunderfoxen to investigate. Sometimes they would sense something amiss and stay clear, which was one of the reasons hunters started using genuinely abducted and lost children - more authentic and more likely to fool the creatures. However, they catch on fast if you stay in the same area, so repeat hunters started having horrific things happen to them on the trail... One of the reasons the practice died out is that you never know if the local vunderfoxen are aware of the ploy. They can live for centuries, so if some guy tried this ruse in the area 300 years ago, they will still remember and take it out on you. Eventually, that and the Green Wars (a territorial struggle of mortals vs. Fey) pretty much put an end to the practice, at least on a large scale.
Lol I would dare you to draw an entire pack of them sitting on your multicoloured sand desert...but that would just be cruel
Awww that's horrible, I can't imagine any children who would want to do that...well I wouldn't! And it's just awful that they're so intelligent and are killed like that, it makes it all the worse for some reason, because they know what's happening
Awww that's horrible, I can't imagine any children who would want to do that...well I wouldn't! And it's just awful that they're so intelligent and are killed like that, it makes it all the worse for some reason, because they know what's happening
MY EYES NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! That is cruel. ^_~
Even the "willing" children were usually being extorted in someway, either because they were very poor/hungry or because they didn't know what the end-goal was. it was fairly awful for everyone involved, and it's good that it has mostly stopped. Unfortunately, that means Vunderfoxen are much more cautious and timid than they were centuries ago, which is a shame for genuinely lost travellers, since the Vunderfoxen are more wary and less likely to help, fearing a trap.
Even the "willing" children were usually being extorted in someway, either because they were very poor/hungry or because they didn't know what the end-goal was. it was fairly awful for everyone involved, and it's good that it has mostly stopped. Unfortunately, that means Vunderfoxen are much more cautious and timid than they were centuries ago, which is a shame for genuinely lost travellers, since the Vunderfoxen are more wary and less likely to help, fearing a trap.
Lol awww, it'd be like one of those impossible 5 billion piece puzzles designed to make you go insane
Could the Vunderfoxen not sense there was something odd about the children? I do agree that it's unfortunate, especially if people really do need help and the actions of others have now sort of damned them!
Could the Vunderfoxen not sense there was something odd about the children? I do agree that it's unfortunate, especially if people really do need help and the actions of others have now sort of damned them!
I hate those things - I'm a 500 piece puzzle person, max. *^_^*
Yeah - that's why they started just abducting kids, so the distress would be genuine. Now the poor vunderfoxen are worried to help anyone, in case they turn out to be unwitting bait for a trap. -_- Still, their instinct to help often overcomes them in the end; they try to just carefully watch and follow as long as they can to assure themselves that it's safe.
Yeah - that's why they started just abducting kids, so the distress would be genuine. Now the poor vunderfoxen are worried to help anyone, in case they turn out to be unwitting bait for a trap. -_- Still, their instinct to help often overcomes them in the end; they try to just carefully watch and follow as long as they can to assure themselves that it's safe.
I've never actually tried one before!
That's awful, I think the Vunderfoxen should just not even bother anymore, if people are going to treat them that way, then let the people suffer for their actions
That's awful, I think the Vunderfoxen should just not even bother anymore, if people are going to treat them that way, then let the people suffer for their actions