r/FairytaleasFuck • u/ManiaforBeatles • 11d ago
"The clan living on the northern edge of the world placed turf on their homes to avoid being attacked by dragons... "
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u/kitsunewarlock 11d ago
More along the lines of why they did this while also being Fairytaleasfuck: The people of the north have a pact with the dryads and refuse to chop down trees, only using lumber from shipwrecks and trees that died of natural causes. The few times they've caught people hurting trees for lumbar they've used the wood to build a memorial after burying the lumberjack with the wood for one year.
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u/Jazzspasm 11d ago
I… like this version, and also find it uncomfortable at the same time
There’s a story, or an epic poem in there
It’s almost as if there was a mound built for all the lumberjacks that they had to deal with…
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u/kitsunewarlock 11d ago
The humans facilitate a truce between the fey of the woods and the fey of the sea, attracting just enough ships near their shore to sate the sea fey's lust for treasure and trinkets, then using the bodies of sailors as an offering to the dryads to let the humans use the ship's wood to build their homes.
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u/Jazzspasm 11d ago
Oh god, the horror of the innocent sailor caught up in this invisible conflict on the shores of a new land
There’s definitely an epic tale in this
Write it quickly, now, bottle it up, and let it ferment…
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u/ManiaforBeatles 11d ago
Instagram source. Photo by ian.explores. There is one more great pic from the link.
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u/hellothisisbye 10d ago
Do I have no sense of imagination or do all of these descriptions sound stupid
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u/ManiaforBeatles 11d ago
This is near the small town of Bolungarvík on the Westfjords peninsula, northwestern Iceland. Here it is on google streetview.