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faelovesthings

4 months ago

Here’s my thought on the type of magical beings in bureau of magical things:

As we know, they exist. In the series they mention; trolls, tree nymphs, mermaids, gnomes, goblins, Minotaurs, ogres, pixies, dragons, and hobgoblins.

Now my theory is that these all fall into three categories

1: things that are sub categories of fairy/elf

2:things that are “accidents”

3: things that don’t exist

For group one these are things that are very similar to a fairy or an elf. For example pixies, and tree nymphs, gnomes

Group two are things that aren’t supposed to exist and happened through some magical accident. These would be like the minautaur, dragon and mermaids,

And group three would be creatures that are only mentioned as insults. It would be the same way we would use those as insults. If you call someone an ogre it’s an insult even though ogres don’t exist. Some of these would be ogres and trolls, goblins and hobgoblins